For sighted people, pictures provide an important mechanism of communication; they are also a valuable learning resource. This paper discusses these issues in context to their use in developing and promoting online pictorial pedagogy through the medium of computers. As the size of an image collection grows, some form of picture repository is needed in order to store, manage, and retrieve images...

Purpose The aims of this paper are to share how one cohort tourism practitioners viewed the transformative change needed within industry and explore implications for leadership in future. Design/methodology/approach research design is based on a virtual whiteboard brainstorming activity incorporating both individual collective thinking 20 participants global class. Using conversational techniqu...

This article examines whether the American cultural phenomena of the practice of Buddhism or the Buddhism-derived technique of mindfulness are likely to be helpful to the political left. It summarizes the central teachings of the ancient Buddhist texts, with particular focus on the issues of mindfulness and politics. It also reviews the political history of Buddhist countries. The author argues...

We consider, as a means of making programming languages more flexible and powerful, a parsing algorithm in which the parser may freely modify the grammar while parsing. We are particularly interested in a modification of the canonical LR(1) parsing algorithm in which, after the reduction of certain productions, we examine the source sentence seen so far to determine the grammar to use to contin...

This paper argues that grieving a profound loss is transformative experience, specifically an unchosen understood as event-based transformation not chosen by the agent. Grief transforms self (i) cognitively, forcing agent to alter large set of beliefs and desires, (ii) phenomenologically, altering their experience in diffuse or global manner, (iii) normatively, requiring revise practical identi...

Case-based pedagogy has evolved as an important tool for enhancing students’ analytical thinking and problem solving skills, as well as fostering the ability to make decisions under conditions of uncertainty. Due to the rapid development of technologies that allow collaboration and interaction despite geographic and temporal distances, educators are investigating the viability of emerging techn...

We propose that human communication is specifically adapted to allow the transmission of generic knowledge between individuals. Such a communication system, which we call 'natural pedagogy', enables fast and efficient social learning of cognitively opaque cultural knowledge that would be hard to acquire relying on purely observational learning mechanisms alone. We argue that human infants are p...