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Smart learning environments for a smart city: from the perspective of lifelong and lifewide learning
Smart Learning Environments, 2017 In the perspective of lifelong learning, lifewide learning and learning society, learning environments have expanded from schools to a more broader space, and even to the whole city.
Rongxia Zhuang +4 more
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Defining the Chaperone’s Role as Escort, Educator or Parent [PDF]
, 2010 The concept of family learning in museums emphasizes the interaction between related adults and children through the process of free-choice learning.
Wood, Elizabeth
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Functional morphology of the pharyngeal teeth of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Many fish use a set of pharyngeal jaws in their throat to aid in prey capture and processing, particularly of large or complex prey. In this study—combining dissection, CT scanning, histology, and performance testing—we demonstrate a novel use of pharyngeal teeth in the ocean sunfish (Mola mola), a species for which pharyngeal jaw anatomy had ...
Benjamin Flaum +3 more
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Meshkwajisewin: Paradigm Shift
Religions, 2021 In 2012, the Manitoba Museum began the development of an exhibit called “We Are All Treaty People”. Mindful of recent scholarship on animacy and the ontological turn in museum ethnography, this paper examines how this exhibit reversed decades of practice
Maureen Anne Matthews +2 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Invasive gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) have replaced the native red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) across much of Great Britain over the last century. Several factors have been proposed to underlie this replacement, but here we investigated the potential for dietary competition in which gray squirrels have better feeding performance than ...
Philip G. Cox, Peter J. Watson
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Quantitative assessment of masticatory muscles based on skull muscle attachment areas in Carnivora
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Masticatory muscles are composed of the temporalis, masseter, and pterygoid muscles in mammals. Each muscle has a different origin on the skull and insertion on the mandible; thus, all masticatory muscles contract in different directions. Collecting in vivo data and directly measuring the masticatory muscles anatomically in various Carnivora ...
Kai Ito +4 more
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MOŽNOSTI TRANSFERU HISTORICKÝCH POZNATKOV (MÚZEJNÝCH ZBIEROK) DO EDUKAČNÉHO PROCESU (Possibilities of the transfer of historical knowledge (museum’s collections) into education process) [PDF]
Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2018 The interconnection between school and museum, by means of educational interactive programs, is in the interests of both institutions. Meeting the challenge “School of history in museum“ brings into the history education the diverse aspects of learning ...
Bocková Anna, Gápa Maroš
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has emerged as a valuable method for investigating the feeding ecology of vertebrates. Over the past decade, three‐dimensional topographic data from microscopic regions of tooth surfaces have been collected, and surface texture parameters have been published for both extant and fossil species.
Mugino O. Kubo +4 more
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Variation in parrot jaw musculature
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Interspecific morphological differences in some superficial jaw muscles of parrots. Abstract Psittaciformes, the order encompassing parrots and their relatives, are highly diverse and generally known for having a strong beaks used for multiple behaviors. The muscles related to the masticatory apparatus should reflect this functional complexity; however,
Ana Carolina L. Faillace +3 more
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HAVING A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES MAKES THE MUSEUM MORE ATTRACTIVE TO VISITORS [PDF]
, 2015 PENANG, April 2015 Mention the word ‘museum’ and what comes to mind would be a place where various artifacts and historical items are kept. By looking at the museum visits, they would be synonymous mostly with classroom trips by primary and secondary ...
MPRC, Pusat Media & Perhubungan Awam
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