In this article the answer for the question ‘is education a scientific discipline?’ will be analyzed. Regarding this question, those who oppose the arguments that education is a scientific discipline and others who claim that education is not a philosophic discipline are both right. The question will be reviewed within the framework of philosophy’s and sciences’ basic structures. Those who clai...

We present here a discipline for job shop reschedub ing based on partial order backtracking. We show that partial order backtracking offers the rescheduler a framework for schedule repair, based upon a set of nocdoods, which impose a systematic paxtial order on the set of activities to be repaired but allows non systematic techniques to be used within that framework. We present rescheduling as ...

The concept of Social Informatics emerged along with the growing role of information and communication technologies (‘ICT’) in the 1970s and was articulated in Rob Kling’s work in the 1980s and 1990s. In recent years, the notion of Social Informatics has been rapidly expanding in various contexts. Following an overview of related activities on the University of Ljubljana website (http://social-...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the past-year prevalence of parental use of verbal and physical discipline in an urban sample. METHOD A cross-sectional study was conducted in two underprivileged neighborhoods with nearly 80,000 inhabitants. Complex sampling was used. The households were selected by applying two-stage probabilistic sampling with stratification. A total of 401 households (sample error=0....

Connecting discipline scholars with the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is accepted as an essential part of professional academic practice across the higher education sector irrespective of discipline. To connect meaningfully with teaching practice, SoTL needs to be translated by the discipline scholar and narratives related to the discipline context constructed. Previous work on di...

OBJECTIVE This study examined how childhood history of discipline (1) related to ratings of how severe and typical punishments were; and (2) predicted parents' use of discipline techniques. The influence of child culpability on these ratings was also investigated. METHOD Ninety-nine New Zealand parents rated 12 physical discipline scenarios varying in discipline severity and perceived child c...

An experiment was conducted to demonstrate the validity of a journal selection and ranking algorithm designed for any discipline. The characteristics of the journal generation procedure incorporate both cited and citing journals so that basic scientific research journals contributing to the research foundation of the discipline, as well as journals in the discipline, might be identified. A Disc...

Agile methodologies have been touted as the programming methodologies of choice for the high-speed, volatile world of Internet and Web software development. They have also been criticized as just another disguise for undisciplined hacking. The reality depends on the fidelity to the agile philosophy with which these methodologies are implemented, and the appropriateness of the implementation for...