Focus groups have traditionally been used in market and design research to obtain group reactions to product concepts. In this paper we outline a simple methodological extension to this format, involving a further stage of concept re-design in smaller sub-groups facilitated by a professional designer. The method was developed in the context of working with groups of older people on concepts add...

Introduction Advances in information technology such as object-oriented programming, real-time operating systems, and reliable computer communication networks, enable the deployment of effective control and automation systems [1]. Industry exploits information technology in distributed control system (DCS) products [2], whose components include proportional-integral-derivative (PID) and program...

AIM OF DATABASE Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group (DBCG), with an associated database, was introduced as a nationwide multidisciplinary group in 1977 with the ultimate aim to improve the prognosis in breast cancer. Since then, the database has registered women diagnosed with primary invasive nonmetastatic breast cancer. The data reported from the departments to the database included detail...

since the emergence of the process-oriented approach to second language writing instruction two main questions have been what and how error feedback should be given to the students. the question of whether teachers should provide feedback on grammar in the writing assignments of english as a foreign language students, and if so how, has been a matter of considerable debate in the field of secon...

Background. This work studied 60 university students who were registered in two handball training classes in the second year of Physical Education and Sports Science throughout the academic year 2017 to 2018. Objectives. It aims to identify the impact of two different training styles (cooperative and traditional) on players’ achievements and basic techniques in a handball learning unit. Metho...

Since the emergence of the process-oriented approach to second language writing instruction two main questions have been what and how error feedback should be given to the students. The question of whether teachers should provide feedback on grammar in the writing assignments of English as a foreign language students, and if so how, has been a matter of considerable debate in the field of secon...

This quasi-experimental study set out to examine the effect of peer corrective feedback on feedback givers and receivers in L2 writing. The forms in focus were a/an, the, and the past tense.The study was conducted in an EFL classroom setting with 45 learners of English in three writing classes which served as the feedback givers, receivers, and the control group.  Over four sessions of treatmen...

Different forms of sociality have evolved via unique evolutionary trajectories. However, it remains unknown to what extent trajectories of social evolution depend on the specific characteristics of different species. Our approach to studying such trajectories is to use evolutionary case-studies, so that we can investigate how grouping co-evolves with a multitude of individual characteristics. H...