This study investigated the comparative effects of audio-visually prompted collaborative dialogue on the listening comprehension development of symmetrical, asymmetrical, and asymmetrical teacher-fronted EFL learner groups. Besides, it explored the attitude of the participants of the groups concerning the effectiveness of collaborative dialogue for their listening comprehension improvement. The...

Introduction: Since the hypertension disease is asymptomatic, Compliance and adherence is one of the essential problems. With a positive view to training either through health personnel and peer group in various aspects of life this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of training by peers with health personnel on blood pressure and adherence to treatment in hypertensive patient was done. ...

Introduction Peer-to-Peer networking has a great potential to make a vast amount of resources accessible [19]. Several years ago, file sharing applications like Napster [15] and Gnutella [8] impressively demonstrated the possibilities for the first time. Because of their success, Peerto-Peer mistakenly became synonymous for file sharing. However, the fundamental Peer-toPeer concept is general a...

Peer-to-peer systems are bringing Windows-based computers onto the Internet as full participants. Peer-to-peer systems utilize the connectivity and capacity to share resources offered by the Internet without being bound by the constraints imposed by the Domain Name System. Peer to peer systems (P2P) are so named because each computer has the same software as the other – every computer is a peer...

In this technical report, we present our findings on network simulators, which can be used to help test and design a P2P system. The Portal-based P2P system under development uses portals to provide a user interface and P2P volunteers to provide resources to the network. The aim is to create an infrastructure that can be used by the scientific community, based on existing social networks, to he...