the salient, and often ignored, role that out-of-class learning plays in second/foreign language (l2) learners’ development is overshadowed by classroom research. the main aim of this study is to problematize the role of out-of-class learning in the specific english-as-foreign-language (efl) context of iran by examination of the ways in which four learners attempted to revamp their english lang...

Little empirical evidence explains how engineering students’ self-directed learning abilities relate to their learning achievements in the existing literature. To add knowledge base regarding self-directed learning to current engineering educational research, this research attempted to employ two experimental studies to explore the effect of self-directed learning on engineering students’ onlin...

A local partitioning algorithm finds a set with small conductance near a specified seed vertex. In this paper, we present a generalization of a local partitioning algorithm for undirected graphs to strongly connected directed graphs. In particular, we prove that by computing a personalized PageRank vector in a directed graph, starting from a single seed vertex within a set S that has conductanc...

The salient, and often ignored, role that out-of-class learning plays in second/foreign language (L2) learners’ development is overshadowed by classroom research. The main aim of this study is to problematize the role of out-of-class learning in the specific English-as-Foreign-Language (EFL) context of Iran by examination of the ways in which four learners attempted to revamp their English lang...

In our rapidly changing technological society, formal training alone cannot meet the need for development of working individuals. Self-directed learning is seen as a solution for adult learners to keep up with these changes. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to identify the essential elements of selfdirected learning that should be integrated into a ubiquitous learning environment for learnin...

Cutaneous basal (BCC) and squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) are the most commonly occurring cancers in humans. These skin driven by DNA damage to epidermis, body’s outermost protective barrier. Our previous studies demonstrate that damaging agents activate inflammasome signaling dermal fibroblasts, which enhances epithelial proliferation plasticity wild-type characteristics associated with tumorig...