for students to develop their soft skills through normal curriculum structure and through extra-curriculum activities. Both skills are important for students to master in the nowadays ever-changing world. In the recent years, there have been great industry demands for students to have more soft skills than

Many prominent theorists have argued that accurate perceptions of the self, the world, and the future are essential for mental health. Yet considerable research evidence suggests that overly positive selfevaluations, exaggerated perceptions of control or mastery, and unrealistic optimism

, center for the study of Languages and information, Stanford, 1988) on a theory of non-wellfounded sets, in which he introduced a proof principle nowadays called coinduction. It was formulated in terms of bisimulation, a notion originally stemming from the world of concurrent programming languages. Using

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of the translations and rotations made by players of this video game are best understood as actions that use the world to improve cognition. These actions are not used to implement a plan, or to implement a reaction; they are used to change the world in order to simplify the problem-solving task. Thus, we distinguish

The field of metaheuristics for the application to combinatorial optimization problems is a rapidly growing field of research. This is due to the importance of combinatorial optimization problems for the scientific as well as the industrial world. We give a survey of the nowadays most important

Large percent of world’s economy is

vast, ever-growing collection of photographs the world over capturing its cities and landmarks innumerable times. For instance, a search for the term "Rome" on Flickr returns nearly 3 million photographs. This collection represents an increasingly complete photographic record of the city

called gossip-based membership). Such computations are of interest in ever-changing networks, where the network topology itself (nodes and links) constantly changes, as do the inputs to the computation, e.g., sensor reads. Everchanging networks occur in many settings nowadays, including ad-hoc, vehicular

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the technological innovative characteristics in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) belonging to the Italian manufacturing sector. A survey based on e-mail and fax questionnaire of 285 SMEs was conducted with a response rate of about 45%. The methodology consisted in a descriptive analysis on general data and in a discriminant analysis on data related to the innovative activity and aimed at determine the factors distinguishing more and less innovative companies. On the basis of this survey, the innovative profile of SMEs has been highlighted as well as the factors and problems of the innovative process analyzed. The results show that innovative firms are market anticipation and customer focused, aiming at product enrichment in terms of different characteristics in respect to competitors ’ products in order to obtain a superior product in terms of quality. Innovation results to be part of their