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Videogames and Serious games share technology and the goal enjoinment, however it uses are different. Serious games, besides entertain also have another goal, which is to communicate, educate, sell or train. In this article we present a videogame to reveal and promote heritages appropriation. Serious videogames are an invaluable tool to spread culture. It cannot be denied the videogame�s potential...
According to Federal Council of Engineering, in Brazil the Engineers deficit is estimated at about 20,000 per year on several areas of engineering. Among other factors, one of the causes of this deficit is the high failure rate in the disciplines within the technical area which causes students to take up to twice the time required to complete the course. This phenomenon is also reflected in the Vocational...
According to the recent publications of the EU cities are the key places of daily mobility for the majority of people. The space of activities especially which is available for transport puts a restraint on capacity side but also raises sustainability issues. The traditional transport modelling approach does not devote enough efforts to identify the functional economic connections among city regions...
In the contemporary society, gender equality in accessing the job market is advocated, and often protected by law in developed countries. In reality, however, gender differences exist in different aspects and stages of recruitment processes and career development, say from career planning, job search, application, recruitment and promotion. Such differences are usually exemplified by different interesting...
Advances on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) have influenced education, and transformed the teaching-learning processes, among others aspects. It has been established that teachers' knowledge on digital media, their design and pedagogical application, is extremely relevant to improve their teaching activities. As Salinas (1997) says "teachers are essential at the time of initiating...
The risk development trend evaluation of the emergency is an important aspect of the risk assessment, and it is often neglected in the risk assessment. The paper establishes the risk development trend evaluation model of the emergency using Daniel trend function, the gray theory and the fuzzy theory, and makes an empirical analysis of the risk development trend of the urban metro. Analysis shows that...
The paper, discussed special needs of the urban subject and education and its dependence on technology of image. The CGVT is mainly applied in description and interpretation, analysis and simulation, prediction and verification, expression of the target etc. It is necessary to rely on the city's self-discipline and education law to guide the various types of CGVT.
Polar grid is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation(MRI) funded partnership of Indiana University and Elizabeth City State University. The partnership??s goal is to acquire and deploy the computing infrastructure needed to investigate the urgent problems in glacial melting. This poster will detail the work involved in preparing the E.V. Wilkins computer center to support...
A new national initiative is underway in India for the transformation of India into a knowledge society. Government of India has set up a National Knowledge Commission with a mandate to serve as a high-level advisory body to the Prime Minister of India in sectors ranging from education to e-government in the following five principal focus areas: Access; Concepts; Creation; Application; and Services...
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