During the COVID-19 pandemic, instructors quickly transitioned to online teaching protect themselves and their students. Due this abrupt transition lack of communication between instructor student, had little time create methods that successfully adapt teach material best meet student's needs. Some students did well with methods, while others seemed struggle engage in classes. Without immediate...

In the following paper, we report on two studies which test for possible detrimental effects of external representations in a scenario where experts respond to email inquiries in medical advice. Based on research on expert-layperson-communication we assume that experts’ extensive and highly integrated knowledge of their own domain makes it very difficult for them to comprehend the completely di...

Online submission of manuscripts is normally fast, relatively easy, and timely. However, failure to follow journal instructions, omitting required aspects of manuscripts, and other problems can delay or stop the submission and peer-review process. This article discusses common problems encountered during online submission and advises authors on how to avoid those problems and maximize the effic...

This paper presents an infrastructure that uses program phase behaviour and brings together the advantages of simulation and physical measurement to capture detailed program power behaviour. Based on the direct correlation between instructions-per-cycle and power dissipation for the same piece of code, we refine the phase classification used in SimPoint to improve the similarity among the inter...

BACKGROUND Emergency department discharge instructions are variably understood by patients, and in the setting of emergency department crowding, innovations are needed to counteract shortened interaction times with the physician. We evaluated the effect of viewing an online video of diagnosis-specific discharge instructions on patient comprehension and recall of instructions. METHODS In this ...

An experiment was conducted to determine the effectiveness of three invitation and incentive combinations in a web-based survey. A stratified convenience sample of 434 researchers who were target users of a collaboratory for earthquake engineering was randomly divided into three experimental conditions: (a) a $5 bill sent with the survey instructions via first class mail, (b) a $5 gift certific...

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