The Open University is always keen to develop ways of enhancing feedback to students, since comments on assignments are a key aspect of the distance tuition process. Students traditionally receive detailed written feedback on their assignment scripts in the form of annotations and corrections as well as separate written comments summarising their overall performance. For foreign language speaki...

Very little is written in American forensic journals about psychodynamic psychotherapy for patients committed to forensic hospitals. Relatively little is known of the process of helping these patients cope with their mental illnesses, to gain insight into their crimes and their unconscious dynamics, or simply to cope with the dreary landscape of the forensic maximum-security institution. In thi...

This note is a critical commentary of the recent paper entitled “A total order heuristic-based convex hull algorithm for points in the plane” published in Computer-Aided Design 70 (2016), 153–160. In the abstract of that paper it is concluded that the presented algorithm is (1) “much faster” than its competitors (2) “without penalties in memory space”. In our opinion, the paper is well written,...

This is the third of three volumes containing edited versions of papers and a commentary presented at invited symposium sessions of the Ninth World Congress of the Econometric Society, held in London in August 2005. The papers summarize and interpret key developments, and they discuss future directions for a wide variety of topics in economics and econometrics. The papers cover both theory and ...

This commentary is written in praise of Dr. Simon's Presidential Address with exemplification of certain of his themes. Forensic fellowships have now become the training ground for the next generation of forensic psychiatrists, who need to be encouraged to find their own best way to write. They should also be encouraged to participate in research with senior mentors and researchers, as publishe...

This study compared the effects of teacher-provided direct and indirect written corrective feedback and manipulation of resource-directing dimensions of task cognitive complexity along +/- Here and Now condition on the grammatical accuracy of Iranian intermediate EFL learners’ narrative writing tasks. There were 45 participants in the study who were randomly assigned to three experimental group...