The paper deals with current trends in e-learning known as E-learning 2.0. The trends are characterized by new methodological approaches such as connectivism in the context of present web technologies and tools – Web 2.0. The E-learning 2.0 tools should be able to integrate legacy learningand other resources in order to create personalized learning environment called learning landscape. L2 Plat...

This paper looks at the problem of endowment assurances which do not meet their targets to repay residential mortgages. Through the analysis of the present value of payments under different inflation and interest-rate regimes, we conclude that the perceived problems with endowment policies may simply be a manifestation of "money illusion". Nevertheless, there could frictional problems and other...

Cook's Theorem [Cormen, T.H., Leiserson, C.E., Rivest, R.L., 2001. Introduction to Algorithms, second ed., The MIT Press; Garey, M.R., Johnson, D.S., 1979. Computer and Intractability, Freeman, San Fransico, CA] is that if one algorithm for an NP-complete or an NP-hard problem will be developed, then other problems will be solved by means of reduction to that problem. Cook's Theorem has been de...

OBJECTIVES After having conducted two studies of the effectiveness of workplace travel plans for promoting active travel, we investigated health and transport practitioners' perspectives on implementing workplace travel plans to share some of the lessons learnt. The objectives of this study were to describe perceived elements of effective workplace travel plans, barriers and enablers to workpla...

In their recent paper, Barker and Howell reviewed some of the more recent literature on the reliability and validity of the penile plethysmograph in the assessment of male sex offenders. Although Barker and Howell recognized that the test has not been standardized and that the results are susceptible to faking, they nevertheless maintained that the plethysmograph is useful in the evaluation and...

During this past summer, I had the rare (at least to the academician) opportunity to personally visit and travel with over 30 agribusiness salesmen throughout much of the American Southwest. I accompanied many of these “mobilized merchants” on their customer service calls. I rode along with these “practicing scientists” in their pickup trucks as they checked their clients’ operations for agrono...

New stability indicating chromatographic methods have been developed for estimation of Assay and Impurities of Docetaxel in Docetaxel injection for evaluation of pharmaceutical quality. With this method, the process related impurities and degradants are well separated from the peaks due to placebo. The relative retention times and relative response factors of the known impurities have been esta...

Interacting or functionally related protein families tend to have similar phylogenetic trees. Based on this observation, techniques have been developed to predict interaction partners. The observed degree of similarity between the phylogenetic trees of two proteins is the result of many different factors besides the actual interaction or functional relationship between them. Such factors influe...