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One of the most important ways to improve, update, and sustain teachers’ skills in an institution is via training. Nonetheless, despite the resources invested in training, learners’ mobilization of new learning after they return to work d...

Rapid developments in contemporary societies not only ask for lifelong learning but increasingly also for training in generic competencies suitable for multiple contexts and life stages. An indicator of training success is the transfer or application...

Although conventional lectures can provide a wide range of information to a large group of people, maintaining attention and ensuring knowledge transfer can be a challenge. Therefore, it is important to look for new, engaging, and effective approache...

This paper presents an integrated aerial system for the identification of Amazonian Moriche palm (Mauritia flexuosa) in dense forests, by analyzing the UAV-captured RGB imagery using a Mask R-CNN deep learning approach. The model was trained with 478...

Currently, there is still a strong trend in research and in the market connected with the role of 3PL (third-party logistics) companies and the trend of developing and creating coordination in logistics networks. The most important issue for the foll...

The monumental scale agricultural infrastructure systems built by Andean peoples during pre-Hispanic times have enabled intensive agriculture in the high-relief, arid/semi-arid landscape of the Southern Peruvian Andes. Large tracts of these labor-int...

Rates of biodiversity loss remain high, threatening the life support system upon which all human life depends. In a case study, a novel biodiversity composite index (BCI) in line with the Convention on Biological Diversity is established in Tyrol, Au...

This study examines the plasticity of native language intonation in English-Austrian German sequential bilinguals who have migrated to Austria in adulthood by comparing it to that of monolingual English and monolingual Austrian control speakers. Into...

Large-scale spatial databases contain information of different objects in the public domain and are of great importance for many stakeholders. These data are not only used to inventory the different assets of the public domain but also for project pl...

Flash floods arise from the interaction of rugged topography, short-duration intense rainfall, and rapid flow concentration. Conventional risk mapping often builds empirical indices with expert-assigned weights or trains supervised models on historic...

Forests fires in northern Iran have always been common, but the number of forest fires has been growing over the last decade. It is believed, but not proven, that this growth can be attributed to the increasing temperatures and droughts. In general,...