“Warn Them” or “Just Block Them”?: Investigating Privacy Concerns Among Older and Working Age Adults

Block them when it hurts

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Attitude to, Knowledge and Practice of Skin Care in Older Adults in Sarakhs City, and Prevalence of Some Skin Problems among Them

Introduction: Considering the effects of skin diseases on health, activities, and quality of life of older adults, the study was conducted with the aim of determining knowledge, attitude, and practice status in older adults of Sarakhs city about skin care and prevalence of some skin problems among them.   Methods: Totally 400 older adults aged 60 years and above (60-99 years) in a cross-...

Wear them, forget them.

Don’t Just Tell Them, Show Them! Teachers Can Intentionally Alter their Instructional Gestures

Because gestures can ground abstract ideas in the physical world and make connections between ideas, they play a potentially important role in the classroom. This study examined whether teachers can intentionally alter their gesture production. Six teachers taught a brief mathematics lesson three times, once without any special instructions, once attempting to use gestures to link ideas, and on...

Separating Compensation Concerns and Programming them with Compensating Automata

Compensations have been used for decades in areas such as flow management systems, long-lived transactions and more recently in the service-oriented architecture. Since compensations enable the logical reversal of past actions, by their nature they cross-cut other programming concerns. Thus, intertwining compensations with the rest of the system not only makes programs less well-structured, but...