This report describes how to use the reflective tower Blond. A reflective tower is a computational architecture where programs are given access to representations of the current state of computation. This models an infinite tower of interpreters interpreting each other, meta-circularly. Blond is a Scheme interpreter extended to be reflective. This report concentrates on its reflective extension...

Over decades nursing had an interest in clarifying and developing its knowledge base and its conceptual foundation. Reflective thinking has become a popular word in nursing education world wide, but its meaning and effective use remains debatable because of lack of clarity in its meaning (Mackintosh, 1998:553). The researcher engaged in the concept analysis of reflective thinking so as to fully...

Reflective memory may be thought of as hardwaresupported replication of data on multiple computersThis simple mechanism has been extended further, in software, to support memory semantics required by multiprocessors. This paper describes the reflective memory implementation of the Encore I&&y a distributed shared memory multiprocessor. A brief overview of the system is provided and comparisons ...

In this paper, we first give a brief introduction to our Reflective Java technology. Then we describe our work on using Reflective Java to implement a flexible transaction architecture that meets the needs of Internet applications. Finally, we report some of our experience, particularly our two-layer approach on constructing metaobjects.

PURPOSE Reflective writing (RW) curriculum initiatives to promote reflective capacity are proliferating within medical education. The authors developed a new evaluative tool that can be effectively applied to assess students' reflective levels and assist with the process of providing individualized written feedback to guide reflective capacity promotion. METHOD Following a comprehensive searc...

The increasing call for learning English as a foreign language has dramatically heightened the necessity to recruit effective English teachers. This is mainly because teachers have a key role in the success or otherwise of an educational program. Nevertheless, a comprehensive review of the related literature confirms the paucity of research studies on teacher characteristics which can influence...