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"Can Undergraduate/Graduate Students in Individual Self-Paced Distance Courses Participate in Discussion Forums? - Absolutely"
(2009-07-14)
This paper examines the use of an innovative monthly discussion forum for undergraduate and graduate students, studying at a distance in an individualized self paced course. The forums consisted of multimedia presentations ...
"Continuous Response Evaluation of Digital Clips Over the Internet"
(2009-07-20)
The main objective of the conference is to promote and disseminate the experiences in New Technologies in Education and E-learning in all educational fields and disciplines.
EDULEARN09 will be a unique International Forum ...
Exploring the Contribution of Mentoring to Knowledge Building in PLAR Practice
(2009-07-22)
Through RPL’s process of intensive reflection, learners come to understand the nature of their past learning. In so doing, new knowledge – knowledge about their own learning histories and learning styles – is created. This ...
Predicting the Asian Currency Crises with Artificial Neural Networks: What Role of Function Approximation?
(2009-08-13)
Indicators approach and probit and logit models are the two most widely used early warning systems for currency crisis.
Several studies however suggest that despite their strengths these systems have high error rates ...
Mediation as an Alternative Source of Law
(2009-08-12)
Mediation as an Alternative Source of Law:
A co-authored 2003 article, "Delegation as a Source of Law", recognized the traditional sources of law to be legislation and precedent. It went further to analyze the decisions ...
"Flying with a Safety Net"
(2009-08-24)
Working as a member of a multidisciplinary team with non-offending spouses and children who have experienced or witnessed family violence can lead to a number of ethical dilemmas. There may be pressure from child protection ...
Statistical and Semantic Question Analysis for Situated Question Answering
(2009-09-18)
Natural Language Processing (NLP) aims to study techniques and systems for processing and eventually understanding natural language speech and text. Typical NLP tasks include speech recognition, natural language generation, ...
Determinates of Buyer-Supplier Relationships: The Effects of Organizational Culture
(2009-10-01)
Buyer-supplier relationship has been gaining increasing attention in the last few decades. A skilled and loyal supplier base has proved to be a key source of competitive advantage. Despite such attention, most of the ...
The Determinants of the Corporate Hedging Decision: An Empirical Analysis
(2009-11-26)
This paper is concerned with testing the hypotheses put forth by Smith and Stulz (1985) and Nance, Smith and Smithson (1993) regarding the four reasons for which a firm will hedge. In this paper, we extend the analysis ...
Oil-exporting economies and political liberalism: comparative trends and their relevance for the Canadian Political Economy
(2009-11-26)
Alberta oil has enabled Canada to become the largest supplier of oil and refined products to the United States, ahead of Saudi Arabia and Mexico. However, the largest mining operations in history, is also one of the most ...