The University of California has completed an external scientific peer review of a prerelease draft of OEHHA’s chromium 6 PHG assessment. The peer reviewers were Dr. Leonard Bjeldanes, Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology, UC Berkeley; Dr. Roberto Gwiazda, Environmental Toxicology, UC Santa Cruz; and Dr. Michael Kelner, Department of Pathology, UC San Diego. OEHHA is revising its draft assessmen...

This study examined how the introduction of peer mentorship in an undergraduate health and social welfare programme at a large northern university affected student learning. Using an ethnographic case study approach, the study draws upon data collected from a small group of mentors and their mentees over a period of one academic year using interviews, reflective journals, assessment and course ...

Current peer-review software lacks intelligence for responding to students’ reviewing performance. As an example of an additional intelligent assessment component to such software, we propose an evaluation system that generates assessment on reviewers’ reviewing skills regarding the issue of problem localization. We take a data mining approach, using standard supervised machine learning to buil...

among structured peer-to-peer systems, chord has a general popularity due to its salient features like simplicity, high scalability, small path length with respect to network size, and flexibility on node join and departure. however, chord doesn’t take into account the topology of underlying physical network when a new node is being added to the system, thus resulting in high routing latency an...

abstract— peer-to-peer ( p2p ) systems have been the center of attention in recent years due to their advantage . since each node in such networks can act both as a service provider and as a client , they are subject to different attacks . therefore it is vital to manage confidence for these vulnerable environments in order to eliminate unsafe peers . this paper investigates the use of genetic ...

We examined the influence of accountability on the consistency of peer ratings and quality of peer feedback by comparing three conditions: only rating accountability, only feedback accountability, or both rating and feedback accountability. From a large undergraduate course, 287 students’ peer ratings and peer feedback were coded for rating consistency, comment helpfulness, amount of feedback, ...