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Accidental Plagiarism in Higher Education, Part II
(2014-02-06)
Earlier research found only about half of 423 university psychology students correctly answered four questions involving recognizing plagiarism, and only a minority was able to rephrase a passage without producing plagiarized ...
Designing a Multiagent System for Course-Offering Determination
(2014-01-16)
This paper describes the design of a multiagent system that facilitates course-offering decision making for a program in an institution. We first model course offering determination for upcoming semester as a multi-winner ...
Never too Old for Hope: A Group Education Initiative in Long-term Care
(2014-02-06)
This presentation provides an overview of a project in which an innovative curriculum designed to foster hope and make hope more visible in long-term care was implemented. An outline of the curriculum and its implementation ...
Coping self-efficacy mediates the influence of generalized control beliefs on physical activity behavior and intentions to be active: A population based sample
(2014-01-16)
Generalized beliefs about one’s control are thought to affect behaviors and behavioral intentions (BI). We sought to examine how a sense of mastery and constraints contribute to a specific control belief, exercise self-efficacy ...
A Framework for Enabling Incidental Learning on the Web
(2014-01-16)
Incidental learning is learning something without intent, which usually happens at the time that is not dedicated to learn that thing. Examples of such time include work, game play and activities for leisure. In today’s ...
Leading Pedagogical Change
(2014-01-16)
According to Keller (2008), changes in many things including technology “constitutes [sic] the most consequential set of changes in society since the late nineteenth century, when the nation went from a largely domestic, ...
Complexity, Healthcare Systems and the Aporias of Healthcare Reform
(2014-01-16)
Paradoxically, “complexity” in health care systems has spurred both an application of complexity theory to health care organizations and a greater assertion of health care’s essentially political nature. This “increasingly ...
Kaska Elders’ Perception of Environmental Change
(2014-01-16)
Vegetation change can be driven by recurrent disturbances, such as wild fire, landslips and avalanches, which are recognized by Kaska. Other changes may be driven by climatic change and shifts in weather extremes. All ...
The Platonic and Aristotelian Mimetic Paradigms In Light of Gans and Heidegger
(2014-01-16)
There is an inherent tension in the imaginal scene of representation between its mediating, violence-diffusing role and its sublimatory rendering of alternative satisfaction. A clearer understanding of the way this is ...
Matroreform: Evolving to a “New” Motherhood”
(2014-01-16)
“New” motherhood is initiated through everyday maternal practices and evolves motherhood at its most fundamental level. In a process called matroreform, women unwittingly and/or intentionally choose what they do and do not ...