If the target of foreign language teaching is to use the language, communicative language teaching (CLT) seems to be an ideal teaching model. The goal of teaching with this method is to use the language as a medium of communication (Adi, 2012).The application of the communicative approach in teaching English as a foreign language, however, is associated with some problems that can cause the met...

Teaching Assistants (TAs) play an important role in supporting research-based instructional environments, yet the connection between TAs' pedagogical beliefs and instructional practices is not well understood. We build upon a broad foundation of research on the nature of pedagogical content knowledge to develop an analytic framework for characterizing how physics TAs both describe and enact the...

The student modeling (SM) is a core component in the development of Intelligent Learning Environments (ILEs). In this paper we describe how a Multi-agent Intelligent Learning Environment can provide adaptive tutoring based in Case-Based Student Modeling (CBSM). We propose a SM structured as a multi-agent system composed by four types of agents. These are: the Case Learner Agent (CLA), Tutor Age...

The so-called “Information Society” is supposed to bear many advantages for users and a great potential for economic growth. At the same time we see the private sphere of individuals increasingly endangered. This paper presents some findings of an ongoing project on privacy by the Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The main issues – technological as well as ...

Community capacity may be enhanced through intermediary supports that provide training and technical assistance (TA). This study used a randomized pre/posttest design to assess the impact of training and TA on coalition capacity. Seven community coalitions from the Midwest participated in the 2-year study, which included 36 hours of training, followed by monthly TA calls to support action plann...

Transplantation-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TA-TMA) is a challenge after allogeneic hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation, considering the diagnostic uncertainties and lack of established treatment. We report a 43-year-old male patient who was diagnosed as TA-TMA after allogeneic progenitor cell transplantation for a progressive ALK negative anaplastic large cell lymphoma and...

An alternative to the traditional Büchi Automata (BA), called Testing Automata (TA) was proposed by Hansen et al. [8, 6] to improve the automatatheoretic approach to LTL model checking. In previous work [2], we proposed an improvement of this alternative approach called TGTA (Generalized Testing Automata). TGTA mixes features from both TA and TGBA (Generalized Büchi Automata), without the disad...

Plants and animals use small RNAs (microRNAs [miRNAs] and siRNAs) as guides for posttranscriptional and epigenetic regulation. In plants, miRNAs and trans-acting (ta) siRNAs form through distinct biogenesis pathways, although they both interact with target transcripts and guide cleavage. An integrated approach to identify targets of Arabidopsis thaliana miRNAs and ta-siRNAs revealed several new...

Geldenhuys and Hansen showed that a kind of ω-automata known as Testing Automata (TA) can, in the case of stuttering-insensitive properties, outperform the Büchi automata traditionally used in the automata-theoretic approach to model checking [10]. In previous work [23], we compared TA against Transition-based Generalized Büchi Automata (TGBA), and concluded that TA were more interesting when c...