Full virtualization has become one of the basic technologies for the development of security applications. This is due to the fact that full virtualization provides important properties such as isolation and transparency that are essential for the development of robust security mechanisms. However, a fact that is often overlooked is that full virtualization also enables developers to make full ...

The application of zone of proximal development (ZPD), as a major tenet of Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory (SCT, 1978), has recently been invited in the L2 learning/teaching profession. This study mainly examined whether Iranian EFL learners’ interactions in diverse ZPD-activated proximal contexts through the use of storytelling instruction could improve their oral (speaking) proficiency and at...

Medical education has been the subject of ongoing debate since the early 1900s. The core of the discussion is about the importance of scientific knowledge on biological understanding at the expense of its social and humanistic characteristics. Unfortunately, reforms to the medical curriculum are still based on a biological vision of the health-illness process. In order to respond to the current...

A critical problem of instruction in ill-structured and complex domains has been how to help students attain a deep understanding of a complex concept. Solutions for this problem are usually very costly. For example, the practical course in medical education often requires one-to-one assistance of the expertteacher for the student to be able to account for a great diversity of complex and real ...

High performance processors based on pipeline processing play an important role in scientific computation. We have proposed a hybrid pipeline architecture named Jetpipeline in our former work. The concept of Jetpipeline comes from the integration of superscalar, VLIW and vector architectures. Jetpipeline has multiple instruction pipelines, which execute multiple instructions like superscalar ar...

OBJECTIVES To determine the benefits of incorporating emotional intelligence instruction into a required pharmacy communications course. DESIGN Specific learning objectives were developed based upon the emotional intelligence framework and how it can be applied to pharmacy practice. Qualitative data on student perceptions were collected and analyzed using theme analysis. ASSESSMENT Students...

The studies on the merits of processing instruction (PI) and output-based instruction (OI) have mostly treated the two approaches as mutually exclusive. To address the potentials of combining interpretation and production activities, this research compared the two isolated approaches of PI and OI with two combined approaches in which processing and output tasks were used in two opposite orders ...

Introduction: Systems-Based Practice (SBP) is one of the sixcompetencies introduced by the ACGME for physicians toprovide high quality of care and also the most challenging of themin performance, training, and evaluation of medical students.This concept analysis clarifies the concept of SBP by identifyingits components to make it possible to differentiate it from othersimilar concepts. For prop...

Interaction with services provided by an execution environment forms part of the behaviours exhibited by instruction sequences under execution. Mechanisms related to the kind of interaction in question have been proposed in the setting of thread algebra. Like thread, service is an abstract behavioural concept. The concept of a functional unit is similar to the concept of a service, but more con...

several semantic image search schemes have been recently proposed to retrieve images from the web. however, the query context is regularly ignored in these techniques and hence, many of the returned images are not adequately relevant. in this paper, we make use of context to further confine the outcome of the semantic search engines. for this purpose, we propose a hybrid search engine which uti...