Multiple Choice Questions or MCQs are very important for e-learning. Generally, MCQs are used as a tool for the assessment of students’ performance at the end of their learning sessions. Can MCQs become an important tool in the process of knowledge acquisition while attending a course? This paper intends to find out how MCQs could be used as a tool for the better understanding, coverage as well...

This paper gives an overview of the evaluation methodology applied to authorship identification solutions as part of PAN 2011. The two variations of authorship identification that were explored were authorship attribution, determining which of a known set of authors wrote a text, and authorship verification, determining if a specific authors did or did not write a text. We summarize the methods...

Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is a severe complication related with blood transfusion. TRALI has usually been associated with antibodies against leukocytes. The flow cytometric granulocyte immunofluorescence test (Flow-GIFT) has been introduced for routine use when investigating patients and healthy blood donors. Here we describe a novel tool in the automation of the Flow-GIFT t...

Gift giving is thought to be welfare decreasing. This claim rests on two key assumptions, namely, full information as to the whereabouts of all goods and the ability to reach the stores that contain desired goods costlessly. In this paper, we replace these two assumptions with the more realistic assumption of uncertainty about the location of goods. As a result, search costs ensue. In sharp con...

0003-3472 2012 The Association for the Study of A doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.03.007 Males of the spider Pisaura mirabilis offer prey items as nuptial gifts to females. While gift giving in this species has received attention in captivity, the ecological context of these gifts remains largely unknown. First, we examine the occurrence of gift carrying by males in nature. Field data reveal that gi...

Properly assigning authorship of academic papers is often an ethical challenge. Through a hypothetical case study, the authors examine some of the potential ethical issues involved in determining who should and should not be listed as an author: the problems of honorary authorship, coerced authorship, and ghost authorship, as well as the question of how to order authors. Guidelines for avoiding...

Misuse of anonymous online communication for illegal purposes has become a major concern [2,12]. In this paper, we present a framework named ART (Authorship Recognition Tool), that is designed to minimize manual procedures and maximize the efficiency of authorship identification based on the content of Internet electronic documents. The framework covers the phases of document retrieval and data...

Multiple authorship is becoming increasingly common in bioethics research. There are well-established criteria for authorship in empirical bioethics research but not for conceptual research. It is important to develop criteria for authorship in conceptual publications to prevent undeserved authorship and uphold standards of fairness and accountability. This article explores the issue of multipl...