Crossing the Threshold

Crossing the threshold of Iranian TEFL

Teaching  English  in  an  Iranian  and  Islamic  culture  poses  complex  questions  for  both  teachers and learners. In this paper, the authors intend to shed light on what it means to teach English as a  foreign  language  (TEFL)  in  an  Islamic-Iranian  context.  Having  reviewed  the  colonial  and postmodern views of English language teaching, the authors took a look beyond the current ...

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Decentralized Computation of Threshold Crossing Alerts

Threshold crossing alerts (TCAs) indicate to a management system that a management variable, associated with the state, performance or health of the network, has crossed a certain threshold. The timely detection of TCAs is essential to proactive management. This paper focuses on detecting TCAs for network-level variables, which are computed from device-level variables using aggregation function...

Crossing the Threshold: Bringing Biological Variation to the Foreground

Threshold concepts have been referred to as "jewels in the curriculum": concepts that are key to competency in a discipline but not taught explicitly. In biology, researchers have proposed the idea of threshold concepts that include such topics as variation, randomness, uncertainty, and scale. In this essay, we explore how the notion of threshold concepts can be used alongside other frameworks ...

Crossing the Threshold Paradox: Creative Cognition in the Global Workspace

I present a hypothetical global model of everyday creative cognition located within Baars’ Global Workspace Theory, based on theories of predictive cognition and specific work on statistical modelling of music perception. The key idea is a proposal for regulating access to the Global Workspace, overcoming what Baars calls the Threshold Paradox. This idea is motivated as a general mechanism for ...