This study seeks to show whether workplace experience (WE) in an apprenticeship programme affects the duration of joblessness among recent university graduates and to determine the antecedents that support a workplace ...

Cookies were originally introduced as a way to provide state awareness to websites, and are now one of the backbones of the current web. However, their use is not limited to store the login information or to save the current ...

A willingness to explore new ideas and to maintain reflective skepticism is necessary to exercise critical citizenship. Importantly, the disposition to think critically is a dynamic (rather than static) characteristic of ...

Durante el confinamiento decretado en el período de alarma sanitaria provocada por la COVID-19, en España se suspendieron todas las actividades educativas de carácter presencial forzando la utilización de vías de trabajo ...

Cutting tool materials are the backbone of machining and play a vital role in the manufacturing industry. Innovation in cutting tools is important for customized and demanding applications. This state-of-the-art review is ...

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is considered as an efficient way to transfer skills from humans to robots. Traditionally, LfD has been used to transfer Cartesian and joint positions and forces from human demonstrations. ...

Metamorphic testing is a popular approach that aims to alleviate the oracle problem in software testing. At the core of this approach are Metamorphic Relations (MRs), specifying properties that hold among multiple test ...

Gamification has been widely used in education in recent years. Gamification has been proven to be a useful tool for students, as it motivates them and helps them to learn. The lack of motivation on the part of the students ...

Many of the applications of graphene rely on its uneven stiffness and high thermal conductivity, but the mechanical properties of graphene—and, in general, of all two-dimensional materials—are still not fully understood. ...

Shear cutting is a high-speed forming process where material separation is involved. The nature of the process leads to high strain rates and temperatures on the sheared zone of the material subjected to the operation. In ...