Professional development is critical in providing constant updates on EFL teachers’ teaching practice. This mixed methods study was conducted to explore the effects of participation in action research on EFL teachers’ practice. Eighteen junior school English teachers participated in this study. Teacher participants conducted their action research during a five-month period. The quantitative pha...

letter identities, 111 Acalculia. See also Numerical calculation(s)bedside testing, 156–157case report, 129–130“frontal,” 143future directions regarding, 157historical perspective and early theories of,130–132neuropsychological theories, 132“spatial,” 143 Action planning, 171–172, 262. See also Limb-actionplanning Action semantics, 81 Action semantic system, ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to test two brief planning interventions designed to encourage cardiac patients to engage in regular physical exercise following discharge from rehabilitation. The interventions comprised action plans on (a) when, where, and how to act, and (b) coping plans on how to deal with anticipated barriers. DESIGN AND METHOD An experimental longitudinal tria...

We describe an approach to social action and social relationship among socially intelligent agents [1], based on mutual planning and mutual control of action. We describe social behaviors, and the creation and maintenance of social relationships, obtained with an implementation of a biologically inspired parallel and modular agent architecture. We define voluntary action and social situatedness...

Real-time search methods allow an agent to perform pathfinding tasks in unknown environments. Some of these methods may plan several actions per planning step. We present a novel approach, where the number of planned actions per step depends on the quality of the heuristic values found in the lookahead. If, after inspecting the neighborhood of a state, its heuristic value changes, only one acti...

Objective: The purpose was to examine whether a one-hour intervention would help increase fruit consumption in motivated individuals and to study the role of self-regulatory mechanisms in the behavior change process, with a particular focus on dietary planning and action control. Methods: A randomized controlled trial compared a one-hour online intervention with controls in 791 participants. De...

This paper proposes a novel method to schedule parallel execution of planning and action. The method is for a class of planning problems which are hierarchically decomposed into two subproblems: (1) determining the next subgoal and (2) determining and executing an action sequence to achieve the subgoal. In this problem class, the upper-level planning process can be viewed as a process of gradua...

A previous paper introduced the nonmono-tonic formalism of causal theories, along with a general method for representing action domains in it. Here we show that causal action theories provide a basis for eeective automated planning. To this end, we deene several properties plans may have, such as executability, determinism, and validity. We then identify a class of causal action theories for wh...

The propositional contingent planner ZANDER solves finitehorizon, partially observable, probabilistic planning problems at state-of-the-art-speeds by converting the planning problem to a stochastic satisfiability (SSAT) problem and solving that problem instead (Majercik 2000). ZANDER obtains these results using a relatively inefficient SSAT encoding of the problem (a linear action encoding with...

PURPOSE This study examines the differential age effects on physical exercise of two planning interventions, action planning (when, where, how) and coping planning (anticipating barriers, mental simulation of success scenarios), and examines the mediating mechanisms of the interventions. METHODS The study assigned the participants, 205 cardiac rehabilitation patients, to one of the interventi...