the purpose of the present study was to compare writing high achievers and low achievers tefl (teaching english as foreign language) learners’ writing self-beliefs. subjects, based on their officially recorded scores on the writing course, were assigned in two 22-member groups of high and low achievers. the adapted english version of mills’ and péron’s (2008) questionnaire and the foreign langu...

This paper presents SNAP, Sensor Network Application Plugin. It consists of a collection of C++ classes that wrap around TinyOS’s [5] system components and a macro PLUGIN to instantiate the application. With this architecture, it is shown that writing embedded code for Sensor Networks is not much different than writing an ordinary C++ code using multiple inheritance. The process of learning a n...

Writing ink analysis is used in establishing document authenticity and the sources and relative ages of written entries. Most analytical methods require removing samples or visibly altering the document. Nondestructive, in situ analysis of writing inks on paper without visible alteration is possible using mass spectrometry with a new ion source called Direct Analysis in Real Time. Forty-three d...

Hybrid optical elements that combine refractive and diffractive functionality are versatile components for all kinds of applications in imaging or metrology. In the past those elements were composed of a flat diffractive and a curved refractive surface. Fusing both functions in a single surface will enhance the capabilities of these optical components further. The fabrication of such precision ...

In parallel programming, communication patterns are rarely arbitrary and unstructured. Instead, parallel applications tend to employ predetermined patterns of communication between their components. If the most commonly used patterns such as pipelines, farms and trees are identified (both in terms of their components and their communication), an environment can make them available as high-level...

Three groups of typically-developing 6th grade students (total N = 62) each completed strategy-focused writing training. Using a combined lagged-group and cross-panel design we assessed the effectiveness of a sequence of four different instructional components: observation and group reflection on a mastery model, direct (declarative) instruction, peer feedback and solo practice. Cumulative effe...

BACKGROUND Over recent years there has been an increase in teaching of both palliative care and reflective practice in UK medical schools. The palliative care teaching at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine is multi-faceted and involves students writing reflective essays after individually meeting patients approaching the end of life during their final year general practice ...

Word embeddings have attracted much attention recently. Different from alphabetic writing systems, Chinese characters are often composed of subcharacter components which are also semantically informative. In this work, we propose an approach to jointly embed Chinese words as well as their characters and fine-grained subcharacter components. We use three likelihoods to evaluate whether the conte...

The percentage of people who produce a neat and clear handwriting is declining sharply. The traditional approach for handwriting teaching is to have a dedicated teacher for long hours of handwriting practice. Unfortunately, this is not feasible in many cases. In this paper we introduce an automated tool for teaching Arabic handwriting using tablet PCs and on-line handwriting recognition techniq...