The aim of this qualitative study is to explore the role of the micropolitics of schools for gifted students in the EFL teachers’ professional interests in the workplace. Results of interviews revealed that to establish their professional interests, teachers involved in conflict and rivalry as well as collaboration and coalition. Furthermore, teachers’ micropolitical actions were in...

My primary research interest is in systems design, which requires expertise spanning a number of areas including devices, VLSI, microarchitecture, architecture, compilers and programming models. My graduate work encompasses many of these fields and includes scalable microarchitectures, VLSI implementations, compiler optimizations, and memory consistency models. I was also a member of a core tea...

The raging debate on whether or not the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine can trigger the onset of autistic spectrum disorders (latest research suggests it doesn’t) has demonstrated one thing very clearly: that there is a lot of uncertainty and misinformation about autism, a condition that affects 0.1% of the population. Parents of autistic children know how difficult it is to f...