The Collaborative Filtering recommendation systems have been developed to address the information overload problem and personalize the content to the users for business and organizations. However, the Collaborative Filtering ...

In a systematic replication of a survey by Rasmussen, Rajecki, and Craft (1993), 241 undergraduate psychology students and 148 members of the public were asked to indicate how reasonable it was that a child, dog, cat, bird, ...

Positive facilitation of plant and animal species by dominant vegetation is common in harsh environments such as deserts. Here we tested the hypothesis that desert shrubs facilitate the blunt-nosed leopard lizard (Gambelia ...

Despite the increasing prevalence of mobile devices in social settings, little is known about their effect on caregiver-child relationships. This study examines what happens when a caregiver becomes engrossed with a mobile ...

This ethnographic case study explores the language learning experiences of several student members of one cohort of Brazils Cincia sem Fronteiras scholarship mobility programme in Canada, in order to gain a deeper understanding ...

In general, attentional control and spatial working memory (WM) decline with increasing age. It is well known that relative to non-cued targets, spatially informative visual (uni-modal) cues quicken response time in target ...

In a traditional classroom, string instrument education is often taught using written, classical music. Teachers must instruct on how to play violin, viola, cello and bass, as well as how to read music and play as an ...

We have developed a two-step synthesis of meta-substituted phenols in one pot, in good to excellent yield. A Pd2+ source is the catalyst for both steps of the synthesis, which includes a cross-coupling reaction between ...

This thesis examines the challenges in musical compositions in Latin jazz styles. The challenges include writing music with different Afro-Cuban rhythms as well as the use of the clave as a backbeat to the melodic ideas. ...

The term climate justice, despite wide usage, defies easy definition. I argue that in order to appreciate it in its full complexity, climate justice is best understood as a moral framework with 2 facets. Facet 1 allows us ...