Due to the recent increase in trade, travel and political and social co-operation, language competence has become a key skill in modern Europe. Great efforts have been made to improve language training at all education levels. Whereas in the past language teaching was mainly related to cultural themes with an emphasis on literature, communicative aspects in everyday international contact situat...

Open collaborative authoring systems such as Wikipedia are growing in use and impact. This research examines how to create a collaborative authoring community for educational resources. We describe and evaluate a novel tool for community authoring of worked examples, in the task of making instruction for a specific math skill. Participants were professional teachers (math and non-math) and amat...

INTRODUCTION In a climate of rapid change and proliferating knowledge, lifelong learning is a necessary professional development objective (Nash, 1994). To maintain currency, people must continually “retool” their knowledge and skill base. Employers need personnel who possess cutting edge skills and knowledge, and are willing and able to update their abilities to meet the ever-changing needs of...

Excellent book is always being the best friend for spending little time in your office, night time, bus, and everywhere. It will be a good way to just look, open, and read the book while in that time. As known, experience and skill don't always come with the much money to acquire them. Reading this book with the PDF preparing the information professional an agenda for the future will let you kn...

What distinguishes professional conservators from others who have a practical involvement with historic objects is the reflective nature of their decision-making. Decisions about practical treatments involve elements of risk: probabilities of unwanted outcomes that reduce the value of the treated object. The continuing development of conservators should be aimed at reducing the uncertainty of d...

INTRODUCTION Mortality data by occupation are not routinely available in Canada, so we analyzed census-linked data to examine cause-specific mortality rates across groups of occupations ranked by skill level. METHODS A 15% sample of 1991 Canadian Census respondents aged 25 years or older was previously linked to 16 years of mortality data (1991-2006). The current analysis is based on 2.3 mill...

This paper expounds that relying on the “Mathematics Culture Festival”, mathematics culture is integrated into education and teaching to help growth of young teachers cultivation applied talents, “professional association” platform, integrate application innovation skill training, broaden professional knowledge, improve skills, 
 promote construction study style effectiveness education. su...

PP-g-PS copolymer is a typical compatilizer used in polypropylene and polystyrene immiscible blends. PP-g-PS copolymers with different side chain lengths were synthesized, and their thermal and mechanical properties were characterized by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), polarizing optical microscopy (POM) and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), respectively. The DSC and POM results show ...

Spatial visualization of engineering students is of greatest importance in terms of their professional achievement, thus evaluation of this skill is essential. Mental Cutting Test (MCT) is one of the most widely used evaluation method for spatial abilities. In this study we present an analysis of MCT results of first-year engineering students, with special emphasis on gender differences. Simila...