Transportation companies moving to offer Wi-Fi service
Transportation companies moving to offer Wi-Fi service ~ Computerworld – The Wi-Fi public-access market is moving into planes,trains and automobiles as transportation companies embrace thetechnology as a way to lure or keep customers.Following this week’s announcement by the California Department ofTransportation (Caltrans) of a three-month test of Wi-Fi public access on itsCapitol Corridor intercity train [...]
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Baited and duped on Facebook
Baited and duped on Facebook ~ When CIO Will Weider encouraged employees atMinistry Health Care and Affinity Health System inWisconsin to use Facebook to spread the word aboutnew programs and successful projects, he was surprisedat the result: Few did so.”I went in there thinking, ‘We’ve turned these peopleloose; we’ll have 10,000 marketers out there,’ ” [...]
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Game Play in Engineering EducationÐ Concept and Experimental Results
Game Play in Engineering EducationÐ Concept and Experimental Results ~ ENGINEERING EDUCATION faces a numberof challenges because of the recruitment situationin many countries. According to a recent survey [1]by The International Council of Academies ofEngineering and Technological Sciences Inc.,which has member academies in over 25 countries,attracting young students to careers as engineers,technologists, or technicians is [...]
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The Non-Use of Computers in Undergraduate Engineering Science Courses
The Non-Use of Computers in Undergraduate Engineering Science Courses ~ Based on visits to twelve institutions spread across the UnitedStates, a survey was made of how engineering science courses havebeen influenced by the ready availability of computers. Althoughthe sample was too small to support general conclusions, the findings were so consistent that they are presented [...]
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Business case Roteb: recovery strategies for monitors
Business case Roteb: recovery strategies for monitors ~ Due to the introduction of extended producer responsibility, European Original EquipmentManufacturers (OEMs) are forced to set up a reverse logistic system for their discarded products. Aspart of this set-up, OEMs or their service providers have to determine strategies for the recovery ofthese products. This involves determining an [...]
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Collaborative e-Work Networks in Industrial Engineering
Collaborative e-Work Networks in Industrial Engineering ~ Recently, pervasive computing and networking have emerged as a powerful computing andcommunication environment enabling new features of interactive and collaborative effectiveness,especially with the ability of providing better quality services anytime, anywhere, and for everyone.The field of industrial engineering has realized the enormous potential benefits and challenges ofthese useful [...]
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Research on Computers and Education : Past, Present and Future
Research on Computers and Education : Past, Present and Future ~ Computers and related technologies are now in almost every school across thenation. State reform efforts include the integration of technology in curriculum standardsand sometimes make technology skills a separate standard for students to achieve. As thefocus on technology expands, policy makers and tax payers [...]
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Computers and education
Computers and education ~ There is a general feeling among theeducators and the educated that they willbe left behind in the absence of computers. The denied reality is that, they cannotrun ahead in the presence of computers.Computers certainly enable several activities; however its role in education andlearning has to be carefully understood… Education covers the [...]
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Wisconsin Card Sorting Test ™ : Computer Version 4
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test ™ : Computer Version 4 ~ Use of this report requires a thorough understanding of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST; Berg, 1948; Grant& Berg, 1948), its interpretation, and clinical applications as presented in the WCST Manual (Heaton, Chelune,Talley, Kay, & Curtiss, 1993). This report is intended for use by qualified [...]
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Pedagogy of Training in Information and Communications Technology for Teachers and Beyond
Pedagogy of Training in Information and Communications Technology for Teachers and Beyond ~ ABSTRACT This article analyses the required content and strategies ofinformation and communications technology (ICT) training for teachers interms of learning to know, learning to do, learning to live with each other andwith others, and learning to be. We conclude that the fast [...]
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Regional Clustering in Australia
Regional Clustering in Australia ~ Two seemingly competing tendencies, the globalisation of economic activity andthe localisation of industries, have captured the interest of scholars, economic development professionals, and policymakers in recent years. While trends towardsglobalisation of industries and companies might appear to reduce the importanceand distinctiveness of (sub national) regions, a tendency towards localisation ofcertain [...]
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Television’s Next Generation: Technology /Interface Culture / Flow
Television’s Next Generation: Technology /Interface Culture / Flow ~ Like many in my profession, I spend a lot of time traveling and thus in hotels, andfor me, at any rate, one of the pleasures of this nomadic life is television. Besides asense of amazement at the clever disguising of the television set into furnitureforms of [...]
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