Purpose – Wiki forms a new model of virtual collaboration. The original wiki is designed to hide content authorship information. Such design may hinder users from being aware of task conflict, resulting in low-efficient conflict management and decreased group performance. This study aims at...

Germination and hydroponic experiments are performed on rice seeds growing in soils treated with Cd stress, with rice seeds of the same variety that is not treated with Cd stress as a control, to study the effects of Cd stress on quality of rice seeds. The results have shown that: (1) Cd stress...

Despite of key functions as valuable global resources and essential ecological zones interconnecting terrestrial/freshwater and marine habitats, little is known on profiles of antibiotic resistance in coastal mudflats, which is of significance to understand the overall dissemination of...

The Braun and Simpson’s (2004 ) study indicates that the Pause method is an effective teaching approach for auditing based on four sets of hypotheses in developing students’ oral, written and interpersonal communication skills. In addition, it is more beneficial to the learning process and...