introduction: e-learning is one of the most important and common paradigms of ict in educational areas. it may help promote creativity, an important, basic and effective component of human life. the aim of this paper is to study the effect of e-learning on students' creativity at meshkinshahr payame noor university in the 2012-2013 academic year.materials and methods: a quasi experimental ...

This study aimed to explore non-verbal executive processes in simultaneous interpreters. Simultaneous interpreters, bilinguals without any training in simultaneous interpreting, and control monolinguals performed the Wisconsin card sorting task (WCST; Experiment 1) and the Simon task (Experiment 2). Performance on WCST was thought to index cognitive flexibility while Simon task performance was ...

The aim of this research was to study the effect of flexibility on e-learning use within the framework of the technology acceptance model (TAM). Concern with flexibility arises from university programmes increasingly blending distance education and on-site learning, made possible by internet-age computer technologies. The use of these technologies is bound to their enabling to break away from t...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder marked by severe motor deficits and reduced striatal dopamine levels. PD patients also commonly exhibit cognitive flexibility impairments, e.g., probabilistic reversal learning deficits that limit daily living. However, less is known about how decreased striatal dopamine signaling affects cognitive flexibility. Past studies indicate that ...

Web-based learning is widespread in educational settings. The popularity of web-based learning is due in great measure to its flexibility. Multiple navigation tools provided some of this flexibility. Different navigation tools offer different functions. Therefore, it is important to understand how the navigation tools are used by learners with different backgrounds, knowledge, and skills. This ...

Aggregators have emerged as crucial tools for the coordination of distributed, controllable loads. To be used effectively, an aggregator must able to communicate available flexibility loads they control, known aggregate a system operator. However, most existing measures often are slow-timescale estimations and much less attention has been paid real-time between In this paper, we consider solvin...

A radial maze concurrent spatial discrimination learning paradigm consisting of two stages was previously designed to assess the flexibility property of relational memory in mice, as a model of human declarative memory. Aged mice and young adult mice with damage to the hippocampus, learned accurately Stage 1 of the task which required them to learn a constant reward location in a specific set o...

Two main principles have always guided distance learning universities: accessibility and flexibility. Namely, the university approaches the student and he can choose his mode of learning. Traditional distance learning institutions achieved these goals by offering special self learning textbooks to replace face-to-face instruction and offering students study methods which are independent of time...

Bats are unusual among mammals in showing great ecological diversity even among closely related species and are thus well suited for studies of adaptation to the ecological background. Here we investigate whether behavioral flexibility and simpleand complex-rule learning performance can be predicted by foraging ecology. We predict faster learning and higher flexibility in animals hunting in mor...