Within the TENCompetence project we aim to develop and integrate models and tools into an open source infrastructure for the creation, storage and exchange of learning objects, suitable knowledge resources as well as learning experiences. This contribution analyzes the potential of social software tools for providing part of the required functionality, as well as some challenges involved.

There is a tendency to think of World Englishes in the noun form; as products rather than as processes (implying that one receives both ready-made, controlling the development of neither). Conceptualising World Englishes as processes in which one can participate as an agent raises the question of what skills are needed in their active construction. The author will argue that since culture resid...

background : nurses play a crucial role in patient-care. therefore, assessing nurses’ clinical competence is essential to achieve qualified and safe care. the aim of this study was to determine and compare the competence assessments made by head nurses and practicing nurses in a university hospital in iran in 2009. methods : a cross-sectional survey was conducted to make comparisons of both sel...

This paper describes a series of vulnerabilities found on HENKOS algorithm (http://eprint.iacr.org/080) having a description below, regarding to the related key attacks, mounting this type of attack for a particular relation between keys and showing that is a practical attack, having results in real time.

*Correspondence: R. M. Mainardes. Departamento de Farmácia. Laboratório de Nanotecnologia Farmacêutica. Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste – UNICENTRO. Rua Simeão Camargo Varela de Sá, 03 85040-080 Guarapuava – PR, Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] A stability-indicating HPLC-PDA method for the determination of ferulic acid in chitosan-coated poly(lactide-co-glycolide) nanoparticles

Miguel Alcubierre, Werner Benger, Bernd Brügmann, Gerd Lanfermann, Lars Nerger, Edward Seidel, and Ryoji Takahashi (1) Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Golm, Germany (2) Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin, Takustrasse 7, D-14195 Berlin, Germany (3) National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana,...

Alessandra Buonanno,* Bala R. Iyer, Evan Ochsner, Yi Pan,1,x and B. S. Sathyaprakash3,k Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, 560 080, India School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, 5, The Parade, Cardiff, United Kingdom, CF24 3YB (Received 6 July 2009; published ...