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What is wrong with the IMS learning design specification? constraints and recommendations
(LWA. Lernen, Wissen und Adaptivitat, 10/2010)The work presented in this paper summarizes the research performed in order to implement a set of Units of Learning (UoLs) focused on adaptive learning processes, using the specification IMS Learning Design (IMS-LD). Through ... -
What Percentage of Travelers Are Writing Hotel Reviews?
(Trends in tourist behavior: new products and experiences from Europe, 2019)Researchers have been using hotel reviews databases as a source of information, publishing hundreds of papers during the last decade with data from TripAdvisor, Booking.com and similar websites. This paper uses a sample ... -
What Role does Corporate Governance Play in the Intention to Use Cloud Computing Technology?
(Symmetry - Basel, 10/2019)This paper aims to investigate the factors which promote the adoption of cloud-based technology. It strives for a better understanding of the impact of corporate governance on the adoption of this technology. This study ... -
What the language of the Third Reich – as described by Klemperer – can teach us about certainties in Wittgenstein’s sense
(Aufklärung revista de filosofia, 2023)Victor Klemperer (18811960) was a German Professor of Romance Languages who became famous especially for the writings in which he related how the Nazis deformed the German language to the extent of developing what he called ... -
When Ads Become Invisible: Minors’ Advertising Literacy While Using Mobile Phones
(Cogitatio, 20/01/2022)It has been traditionally estimated that children begin to understand the persuasive intent of advertising at about the age of 8 which is when they acquire the skills of adult consumers. The ability to identify and interpret ... -
When the Easy Becomes Difficult: Factors Affecting the Acquisition of the English /i/-/ Contrast
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2021)The degree of similarity between the sounds of a speaker's first and second language (L1 and L2) is believed to determine the likelihood of accurate perception and production of the L2 sounds. This paper explores the ... -
When the Easy Becomes Difficult: Factors Affecting the Acquisition of the English /i;/-/(I)/ Contrast
(Frontiers in Communication, 2021)The degree of similarity between the sounds of a speaker's first and second language (L1 and L2) is believed to determine the likelihood of accurate perception and production of the L2 sounds. This paper explores the ... -
Where the Response to Migration Begins. Zygmunt Bauman’s considerations about exile and migration
(SOCIAL Review, 07/2021)Migration is one of the main problems in the modern world, one which is globally generated, but left to the individual’s or small community’s initiative. My proposal is that any solution – including the people’s exigence ... -
Which are the risk factors of violence in mental illness? A scoping review
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Which is or should be the ideal level of participation of students of higher education in their own education?
(ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2018)The global objective of this work is to contribute to the field of evaluation of the quality of higher education developed by higher education institutions (HEIs) from a multidimensional perspective, that considers all ... -
Which psychological interventions improve quality of life in patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
(PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE, 2023)Quality of life (QoL) is a major patient reported outcome used to measure the psychological treatments success in people with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. To date, the specific impact of different interventions on QoL ... -
Who should teach gifted students?
(Revista Española de Pedagogía, 30/05/2008)En este trabajo se ofrece una visión de síntesis relativa a las características de un buen profesor en general y del mejor profesor de los alumnos más capaces en particular. Se analizan, a la luz de los resultados de la ... -
Whole Genome Interpretation for a Family of Five
(Frontiers in Genetics, 2021)Although best practices have emerged on how to analyse and interpret personal genomes, the utility of whole genome screening remains underdeveloped. A large amount of information can be gathered from various types of ... -
Why is the Spanish hotel trade lagging so far behind in gender equality? A sustainability question
(Sustainability (Switzerland), 01/06/2020)There are far more women than men who hold higher qualifications in tourism, but nevertheless, inequalities still prevail on executive committees in the tourism industry. Society nowadays is aware that gender inequality ... -
Why Not an Opioid Epidemic in Europe Like in the USA?
(AIDS Reviews, 12/2019)The CDC reported 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017 (Scholl et al., MMWR 2018; 67: 1419-27). Sadly, this yearly rate has been increasing significantly during the past two decades. Opioids, mostly ... -
Why Regulation Is Needed in Emerging Markets in the Tourism Sector
(American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 23/06/2019)he neoclassical ideal has defended the idea that markets, in a context of limited regulation, reach an optimal equilibrium automatically. We analyze this assertion in an applied manner with a case study of the emerging ... -
Why such excess of mortality for COVID-19 in Spain?
(Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 06/2020)The current global crisis produced by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is unprecedented. Even the 1918 influenza pandemic (Spanish flu) did not halt the planet so abruptly and deeply as it ran during World War I. -
Why the Future Might Actually Need Us: A Theological Critique of the ‘Humanity-As-Midwife-For-Artificial-Superintelligence’ Proposal
(International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI), 09/2021)If machines could one day acquire superhuman intelligence, what role would still be left for humans to play in the world? The ‘midwife proposal,’ coming from futurists like Ray Kurzweil or James Lovelock, sees the invention ... -
Why the Wrongness of Killing Innocents is Not a Universal Moral Certainty
(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022)In this paper, I argue that the certainty about the wrongness of killing must not be considered as a universal, but as a local one. Initially, I show that there exist communities in which the wrongness of killing innocents ... -
Wide stability in a new family of optimal fourth-order iterative methods
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019)A new family of two-steps fourth-order iterative methods for solving nonlinear equations is introduced based on the weight functions procedure. This family is optimal in the sense of Kung-Traub conjecture and it is extended ...
