Learner autonomy (LA) has always been a controversial issue among applied linguists. Several studies have been carried out to investigate the teachers' and learners' perceptions of learner autonomy as well as the feasibility of learner autonomy. Despite the importance of learner autonomy and the existence of several related studies, the challenges in promoting LA in Iranian institutes to the re...

OBJECT The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education instituted mandatory 80-hour work-week limitations in July 2003. The work-hour restriction was met with skepticism among the academic neurosurgery community and is thought to represent a barrier to teaching, ultimately compromising patient care. The authors hypothesize that the introduction of the mandatory resident work-hour restr...

Problem statement: Language Lab plays crucial role in learning foreign language. With its capability to create environment of connecting students with students, connecting student with teacher and giving the impactful learning resources, some of institution are dare to invest of expensive system. Hence, some of them keep searching for more efficient way to learning language. In this study, base...

Consider an institutional service that could be defined by the countries government or board of education. Each participating college or university could later implement the service on a local basis. Users would discover the available services in a directory through some kind of search facility and develop front-end applications. Receiving the data in a standardized format allows the informatio...

A decision model using of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was investigated to reflect the relative importance of quality of service (Qos) needs of an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) system by health service related applications. A pilot study is carried out in Health institutions in Chile to examine priority criteria from end users perspective concerning Qos issues. The purp...

There is a pervasive euphoria in most developed and developing countries regarding the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in transforming the government from a sluggish and nonresponsive leviathan to a more efficient and citizen friendly institution. This paper proposes a method to assess in an objective manner the change in service quality as a result of e-Government projec...

This paper proposes multiscale service design method through the development of support service for prevention and recovery from dementia. Proposed multiscale service model consists of tool, event, human, network, style and rule. Service elements at different scales are developed according to themodel. Firstly, the author proposes and practices coimagination method, which is expected to prevent...

Only a small proportion of the treatment of mental illness occurs in an institution or hospital. By far the most significant treatment happens in the community and in the patient's own social and family environment. However, de-institutionalisation of mental health services has brought increasing numbers of patients to the emergency department in need of psychiatric assistance. The traditional ...

In this paper we consider a logical system of networks of processes that interact in an asynchronous manner by exchanging messages through communication channels. This provides a foundational algebraic framework for service-oriented computing that constitutes a primary factor in defining logical specifications of services, the way models of these specifications capture service orchestrations, a...