Clinical microbiology testing is crucial for the diagnosis and treatment of community and hospital-acquired infections. Laboratory scientists need to utilize technical and problem-solving skills to select from a wide array of microbial identification techniques. The inquiry-driven laboratory training required to prepare microbiology graduates for this professional environment can be difficult t...

the present research investigated the effect of self-regulatory approach (with two components of self-checking and self-efficacy) on pre-intermediate iranian learners' lexical segmentation in listening comprehension via authentic listening comprehension texts. to achieve this purpose, the investigators administered an oxford placement test (2007) to ninety-eight students of two girls’ priv...

Discussions about the possibilities and limitations of the various approaches to the development of intelligent systems are too often based on vague concepts and assumptions. Intelligence is usually considered only in terms of behaviour; we point out that no behaviour can be considered "really intelligent" independently of its motivations. In this context, we introduce the concepts of authentic...

Ethnicity has been defined primarily by the physical appearance of pedagogical agents. Research has shown that shared ethnicity between the agent and the user reflects in a positive perception of the agent's capabilities and provides motivation for learning tasks for students of color (Baylor, 2005; Nass et al., 2000). However, research has failed to examine what kinds of implementations of ped...

Integrity critical databases, such as financial information, which are used in high-value decisions, are frequently published over the internet. Publishers of such data must satisfy the integrity, authenticity, and non-repudiation requirements of end clients. Providing this protection over public data networks is an expensive proposition. This is, in part, due to the difficulty of building and ...

An innate deficiency of the Internet is its susceptibility to IP spoofing. Whereas a router uses a forwarding table to determine where it should send a packet, previous research has found that a router can similarly employ an incoming table to verify where a packet should come from, thereby detecting IP spoofing. Based on a previous protocol for building incoming tables, SAVE, this paper introd...

Authentic assessments are closely aligned with activities that take place in real work settings, as distinct from the often artificial constructs of university courses. As the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority (SRA) has recognised that delivery of the vocational stage of training should utilise authentic assessment techniques to improve students’ ‘Day One’ outcomes, the authors assert that authe...