Animated Pedagogical Agents (APAs) can be defined as animated computer-generated characters that respond to user input, adapt to user behaviour, and facilitate learning in a computer based learning environment. The benefits ...

Mediation, once an "alternative" process, has gone mainstream. Most courts in North America now include it as part of normal litigation procedure. In the United States there is even fear that mediation will lead to the ...

Foods with a high content of fat, sugar, and refined cereals are typically cheap but are poor in nutrients and heavy with calories.  By contrast, such foods as fish, vegetables, and fruit are richer in nutrients but are ...

Shopping became a major Canadian pastime between the late 19 the  century and World War II.  During the same period, stereotypes of female shoppers as vain, greedy, and impressionable came to assume prominent roles within ...

In 2007 and 2008 there was a hard fought campaign against proposed changes to the Canadian Copyright Act, changes which would have privileged producers and owners of copyright over users. Particularly notable about the ...