At the end of middle school, many low-achieving students have to abandon hope of getting into selective high-school programs, which may be a source of disengagement and eventually lead them to drop out of high school. Based on a randomized controlled trial, this paper shows that low-achievers can be helped to formulate educational objectives that fit better with their academic aptitudes, throug...

Public Employment Services (PES) in Europe are authorities that attempt to match supply and demand on the labor market. Rising unemployment in times of crisis and demographic change are among the main challenges with which PES practitioners, as a direct interface between jobseekers and employers, have to deal. They have to support career adaptability of their clients, as well as to enhance and ...

Specification-oriented components (SOC’s) are designed to facilitate the implementation of a system directly from its specifications. An earlier study has shown cases in which SOC’s enabled information systems to be implemented with considerably less code than when implemented with components designed by a typical object-oriented approach. This study goes a further step by considering the essen...

With more than one third of pregnancies in the United States being delivered by cesarean and the growing knowledge of morbidities associated with repeat cesarean deliveries, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists convened a workshop to address the co...

The study evaluated students’ experience of learning with virtual classrooms facilitated by Google Classroom at the Institute social work, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. employed Activity Theory (AT) as a theoretical framework using first triangle activity system, which includes three components - Subject-Tool-Object (STO). This adopted an anonymous online survey for data collection and quantitative ...

To reduce cost and effort, e-government is trying to maximize the digital interaction with its citizens. E-customs is a carry-over of such an effort. Worldwide Customs is transforming from the labor intensive paper work it used to be for ages to e-customs, where international trade is facilitated fully exploiting the global digital infrastructure of the 21st Century. Service-Oriented Auditing (...

A modified version of a standard greenhouse bioassay for determining soybean cyst resistance in soybean plants is described. White plastic laundry tubs served as microplots for rearing large numbers of nematodes in a confined space; up to 3 million eggs of each generation were collected per tub. Before screening, SCN populations were evaluated on susceptible and resistant soybean to characteriz...

Construction and assembly are complex and arduous tasks, especially when performed in hazardous environments such as in orbit, on the Moon, or on Mars. Effective assembly of structures in such environments, where human labor is expensive and scarce, can be facilitated by the use of heterogeneous robotic teams. Over the past five years, we have developed the architectural framework and tools to ...

Constructivist theories of learning describe learning as an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their past knowledge or experiences. This makes problem-based learning very attractive compared with traditional medium / large group lectures, which are thought to encourage passive assimilation of knowledge. Problem based learning can however be labor intensi...

Alexandrium tamarensis is a toxigenic dinoflagellate found in coastal waters worldwide. A critical factor in alleviating the health and economic threats posed by this species is the development of a rapid and reliable method for detection. This study stream-lined a labor- and resource-intensive protocol for the isolation of A. tamarensis ribosomal DNA (rDNA). Subcultures of A. tamarensis were e...