Accumulating evidence suggests that AIDS orphanhood status is accompanied by increased levels of psychological distress such as anxiety, depression, intense guilt, shame, and anger. However, few studies have examined the possible reduction of psychological distress in AIDS orphans through the help of interventions that promote well-being. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effects o...

abstractin the present study, attempt has been made to examine the effectiveness of peer and teacher scaffolding in reading comprehension of intermediate efl students in symmetrical and asymmetrical groups. to do so, sixty intermediate students were purposively selected out of 150 intermediate students in hamadan islamic azad university and kish language institute in hamadan. they were divided ...

This paper studies the problem of maintaining eventual consistent group membership without any synchrony assumption inside an unbounded group G of processes that varies over the time (processes may join and leave the group). Eventual consistency means that if at any time all group membership changes cease, processes will converge in a finite time to a single consistent view. Due to the lack of ...

Peer-to-Peer systems become popular applications but suffer from insufficient resource availability which is caused by free-riders and inefficient lookup algorithms. To address the first cause, a number of recent works have focused on providing appropriate incentive mechanisms to encourage participants to contribute their resources to the P2P systems. To improve the lookup efficiency, locality-...

conclusions the project succeeded in using focus group data from academics to inform software development while at the same time retaining the benefits of broader philosophical dimensions of critical thinking. materials and methods critiique is flexible, authorable software that guides students step-by-step through critical appraisal of research papers. the spelling of critiique was deliberate,...

This article reviews a broad range of written material about peer support for people with mental health difficulties. Its aim is to share examples of peer support in practice through showing the effectiveness of this approach for those taking an active part and its correlation with Recovery practice as adopted by mental health service providers. The intention is to make resources on peer suppor...