This study aims to examine differences between the mastery of physics concepts taught learners through information communication technology based learning and learners are taught through the study of ...laboratory experiments based learning. The study population was a class X SMA Negeri 4 Kupang, which is in the second semester of academic year 2012/2013. This type of research is quasiexperimental with pretest-posttest design with nonequivalent groups of two experimental classes treated with information communications technology based learning and laboratory experiments based learning and a control class that was treated with conventional learning. Data were collected through a written test and analyzed using independent samples t test using SPSS 16.0 for Windows. The results showed that there is a difference between the mean mastery of physics concepts taught learners through information communication technology based learning and learners are taught through the study of laboratory-based experiments. The mean mastery of physics concepts taught learners through information communication technology based learning higher than students taught through the study of laboratory experiments based learning.
Alzheimer disease (AD) and other related dementia represent a major challenge for health care systems within the aging population. It is therefore important to develop better instruments for ...assessing disease severity and disease progression to optimize patient’s care and support to care providers, and also provide better tools for clinical research. In this area, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are of particular interest. Such techniques enable accurate and standardized assessments of patients’ performance and actions in real time and real life situations. The aim of this article is to provide basic recommendation concerning the development and the use of ICT for Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. During he ICT and Mental Health workshop (CTAD meeting held in Monaco on the 30th October 2012) an expert panel was set up to prepare the first recommendations for the use of ICT in dementia research. The expert panel included geriatrician, epidemiologist, neurologist, psychiatrist, psychologist, ICT engineers, representatives from the industry and patient association. The recommendations are divided into three sections corresponding to 1/ the clinical targets of interest for the use of ICT, 2/ the conditions, the type of sensors and the outputs (scores) that could be used and obtained, 3/ finally the last section concerns specifically the use of ICT within clinical trials.
Urban transport sustainability is a shared challenge nowadays and many were the responses given to it in the very recent years. The paper, amidst the huge quantity of references and data around the ...subject, intends to face the problem from an original point of view: more and more detailed plans as well as sophisticated technologies are not enough (alone) to make transport system efficient and mobility management sustainable. Authors purpose clustering, training investments and development of organic relationships among local stakeholders as a key-action for the improving of competitiveness and smartness in urban contexts.
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