Despite the abundance of research on teachers’ repair practices in language classroom interaction, there are not enough conversation analytic studies on repair organization with the focus on the details of interaction in the context of EFL. Drawing on sociocultural and situated learning theories, this study explores the contingent nature of English language teachers’ org...

Since 1947, with the beginning of the immigration to Israel on a large scale, systematic x-ray examinations were done on immigrants in the reception camps. Now our mass radiographic studies include 350,000 people. In the first years, 1947-48, the high percentage of cases with active tuberculosis of the lungs was striking (0.8 per cent), and among them we found one particular form of tuberculous...

Market prices are well known to efficiently collect and aggregate diverse information regarding the value of commodities and assets. The role of markets has been particularly suitable to pricing financial securities. This article provides an alternative application of the pricing mechanism to marketing research using pseudo-securities markets to measure preferences over new product concepts. Su...

Modern smartphones are loaded with sensible data. At the same time, there are situations, in which a user must share or wants to share the device with others. Since common authentication methods still follow a single-sign-on approach, new privacy issues arise. We argue that sharing cannot always be avoided and thus should be supported by refined authentication systems. Our assumption is based o...

Market prices are well known to efficiently collect and aggregate diverse information regarding the economic value of goods and services, particularly for financial securities. We propose a novel application of the price discovery mechanism in the context of marketing research: to use pseudo-securities markets to measure consumer preferences over new product concepts. A securities-trading appro...