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Resource competition can vary from completely symmetric (all individuals receive the same amount of resources, irrespective of their size, known also as scramble competition) to perfectly size symmetric (all individuals exploit the same amount of resource per unit biomass) to absolutely size asymmetric (the largest individuals exploit all the available resource).
Within the open educational resources movement, the concept of OER is active. [175] Consider, for example, the conceptions of gratis versus libre knowledge as found in the discourse about massive open online courses , which may offer free courses but charge for end-of-course awards or course verification certificates from commercial entities.
Erich Walter Zimmermann (July 31, 1888 – February 16, 1961) was a resource economist. He was an economist at the University of North Carolina and later the University of Texas. Zimmermann of the Institutional school of economics [1] called his real world theory the functional theory of mineral resources.
This outline of open educational resources provides a way of navigating concepts and topics in relation to the open educational resources (OER) movement. Definitions [ edit ]
The perpetual resource concept is a complex one because the concept of resource is complex and changes with the advent of new technology (usually more efficient recovery), new needs, and to a lesser degree with new economics (e.g. changes in prices of the material, changes in energy costs, etc.).
The Biodiversity Heritage Library website, an example of a digital library. A digital library (also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, a library without walls, or a digital collection) is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital media formats or a library accessible through the ...
Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory is a stress theory that describes the motivation that drives humans to both maintain their current resources and to pursue new resources. [ 1 ] This theory was proposed by Dr. Stevan E. Hobfoll in 1989 as a way to expand on the literature of stress as a construct .
A web resource is any identifiable resource (digital, physical, or abstract) present on or connected to the World Wide Web. [1] [2] [3] Resources are identified using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). [1] [4] In the Semantic Web, web resources and their semantic properties are described using the Resource Description Framework (RDF). [5]