Designing a hybrid course entails the challenge of choosing learning activities for each of the face-toface and online environments--and sequencing and coordinating the activities across the two environments--to promote student attainment of the course’s learning objectives. This paper presents a study comparing student performance in an undergraduate Principles of Microeconomics course taught ...

introduction phenylketonuria (pku) is a congenital metabolic disorder of phenylalanine, if which, the diet is not to be followed exactly, it can lead to progressive mental retardation. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of face to face and non-face to face trainings by parental on controlling serum phenylalanine levels in the children with phenylketonuria. materials and met...

People who feel embarrassed are often motivated to avoid social contact--that is, to hide their face. At the same time, they may be motivated to restore the positive image that has been tarnished by the embarrassing event (or, in other words, to restore the face lost in the event). Individuals can symbolically employ these coping strategies by choosing commercial products that literally either ...

Research has established that individual student interest has a positive effect on learning and academic achievement. However, little is known about the impact of a blended learning approach on individual student interest and whether combinations of online and face-to-face learning activities significantly enhance student interest. This paper assesses the effect of blended learning on perceived...

The human face is central to our identity. It plays an essential role in everyday interaction, communication and other routine activities. Thus, face detection and tracking algorithms are of great importance for human-machine interaction. It is an extensively studied field and a large body of research has been done. This paper gives a a broad overview of basic principles and some representative...

The human face is central to our identity. It plays an essential role in everyday interaction, communication and other routine activities. Thus, face detection and tracking algorithms are of great importance for human-machine interaction. It is an extensively studied field and a large body of research has been done. This paper gives a a broad overview of basic principles and some representative...

hospital committees play an important role in programming, organization and coordinating hospital activities. this study was conducted to evaluate hospital committees’ situation in kashan educational hospitals.  hospital committees’ meeting reports and face-to-face interview were used to data collection. there were 402 meeting reports with average 7 members attendance at the each meeting.  1292...

Innovations are inherently connected to knowledge transfers. The need of face-to-face contacts to transfer tacit knowledge is commonly argued to cause a regional dimension of innovative activities. The paper presents an alternative explanation based on a model of boundedly rational actors who search for knowledge. It is shown that a regional dimension exists in these processes that results from...