This study explores learners’ online peer review practices during a four-week second language writing project. The project was developed in multi-section Spanish course at the college level. investigates how learners give feedback to their peers, whether there is any relationship between roles they assume and final performance, additional factors that may influence reviewing practices. A total ...

Abstract The setup of thesis circles at the exit level undergraduate programs expects students to co-supervise each other’s work and multiple peer feedback is used replace supervisor formative feedback. Integrating requires be able make evaluative judgements by identifying relation patterns among different givers a reasoned decision for improving their own work. Unfortunately, most find it diff...

Incorporating new healthcare technologies for proactive health and elder care will become a major priority over the next decade, as medical care systems world-wide become strained by the aging boomer population. We present MIThril LiveNet, a flexible distributed mobile platform that can be deployed for a variety of proactive healthcare applications. The LiveNet system allows people to receive r...

a survey on quality of life in hemodialysis patient care givers h habibzadeh1, msc h jafarizadeh2, msc y mohammadpoor3, bsc p kiani4, bsc kh lak5, bsc a bahrechi6, bsc received: 22 april, 2009 accepted: 27 july, 2009 abstract background & aims: quality of life is a major concept in family, and changes in health care systems needs families to take care of their chronic patient at home. the prese...

A functional analysis of prosociality considers how predispositions for prosocial behavior prompt, reinforce, and propagate kind behaviors in the real world. To examine the effects of practicing, receiving, and observing everyday prosociality-as well as the mechanisms underlying these effects-we randomly assigned employees in a Spanish corporate workplace (N = 111) to be Givers, Receivers, and ...

Interprofessional feedback dialogues play a crucial role in educating the adaptive team members that health care practice requires. The aim of this study is to develop principles for interprofessional dialogues, support healthcare education on processes an context. A critical review literature (interprofessional) feedback, and discussions with local experts resulted initial framework. This was ...

Gifts that support a worthy cause (i.e., ‘‘gifts that give twice’’), such as a charitable donation in the recipient’s name, have become increasingly popular. Recipients generally enjoy the idea of these gifts, which not only benefit others in need but also make individuals feel good about themselves. But do givers accurately predict appreciation of these types of gifts? Across three studies, we...

Background: Primary care-givers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or intellectual disability (ID) have poorer health and quality of life than primary care-givers of typically developing children. We aimed to review original research which described factors impacting the health of primary care-givers of children with ASD or ID and to discuss how these factors might influence care-g...

a chain of events which leads to the disintegration of the personality and ultimately to the hospital. The percentage of the population who will spend some part of their lives in a mental hospital is increasing, and 3 large proportion of these people are elderly. Senile dementia, it is thought* is accelerated by loneliness. A harsh winter makes already existing problems more imminent. Death amo...