Who is sitting next to you? Peer effects inside the classroom

Commentary Analysis of the Verse “Marry of the Women, Who Seem Good to you”

One of the most important Quranic discussions is to find the essential and spiritual proportions among the expressions of each verse from the Holy Quran. Some people have denied such a proportion in the case of the third verse of An-Nisaa “marry of the women, who seem good to you”; thereby, they have raised the doubt of distortion on deficiency. In other words: since they have not been able to ...

Classroom Peer Effects and Student Achievement

Abstract: In this paper we analyze the impact of classroom peers’ ability on individual student achievement with a unique longitudinal data set covering all Florida public school students in grades 3–10 over a five-year period. Unlike many data sets used to study peer effects in education, ours identifies each member of a student’s classroom peer group in elementary, middle, and high school as ...

Who is Watching You Eat?

Many of the seminal papers in preference handling have used food preferences as motivating examples for their work; for example (Boutilier et al. 2004; Chomicki 2002). As foodies, the authors find this particularly motivating. While we think that there is both research and commercial potential in preference-based software for restaurants, we believe that serious application of the MPREF communi...

Towards Next-Generation Peer-to-Peer Systems

The Internet has changed from a statically, television-like web page space to a highly heterogeneous and extremely dynamic information platform. No other technology forced that development like Peer-to-Peer. This short paper will briefly summarize emerging trends and promising concepts for Peer-to-Peer systems and describe upcoming challenges for developers.

Enabling Next Generation Peer-to-Peer Services