As the use of electronic textbooks continues to expand and we approach the point where dominance of digital over print is becoming increasingly inevitable (Reynolds, 2011), research is needed to understand how students accept and use the technology. This is especially critical as we begin to explore the electronic format for required textbooks in higher education. The current study evaluates un...

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With growth in the use of computers and the Internet, we now live in a world where there are two spheres of existence–a physical sphere and a digital sphere. Many now rely on the Web as a reflection of reality for finding facts. For example, many turn to the Web to get the address of a store rather than consult traditional yellow pages in book form. This existential dichotomy between our physic...

SUMMARY gff2aplot is a program to visualize the alignment of two sequences together with their annotations. Input for the program consists of single or multiple files in GFF-format which specify the alignment coordinates and annotation features of both sequences. Output is in PostScript format of any size. The features to be displayed are highly customizable to meet user specific needs. The pro...

In undergoing this life, many people always try to do and get the best. New knowledge, experience, lesson, and everything that can improve the life will be done. However, many people sometimes feel confused to get those things. Feeling the limited of experience and sources to be better is one of the lacks to own. However, there is a very simple thing that can be done. This is what your teacher ...

Media content distribution has changed extensively in the past decade. Content, which was once distributed through traditional formats such as television, radio and print, is now available through contemporary digital formats with many possible versions, such as smartphone and tablet apps, and presence or absence of ads. Consequently, many media firms facing markets comprised of heterogeneous c...

background and purpose: problem-based learning (pbl) is a term used within education for a range of teaching approaches that encourage students to learn through the structured exploration of a problem. histology comes early in the curriculum and the medical students seem unable to see the value of the content, they don't appear to be motivated to learn the content. this project used pbl to help...

This interdisciplinary paper presents an autoethnography of author who self-publishes her own fanfiction via print-on-demand (POD) services. It reflects upon the subject fan writer as self-publisher, touching shifting notions authorship, format book, and literary practice, with implications for both studies Library Information Science (LIS). While its findings cannot be generalised to wider com...

Many libraries and library types utilize collection development policies as the standard for guiding the content and format of current and future collections. While these documents retain value as a summary of departmental desires and acquisitions planning, the multidisciplinary nature of teaching and publishing may be diminishing their use and effectiveness as a means of disseminating library ...

While declining click-through rates and banner blindness are raising concerns among internet advertisers, a new advertisement format is gaining momentum slowly, exposure to advertisements on printouts. This is evident from the attempts of various websites to put advertisements on printer-friendly versions or stealth insertions for print function. A before-after study group-control group experim...