Group formation strategies have the goal of providing the participating students with the good initial conditions for collaborative learning. Continuing with the existing methods to set up the initial conditions to make peer interaction more likely happen, we propose a method for dynamically recomposing learning groups based on intra-group iteration analysis to optimize the learning group forma...

This study found that ethnic self-awareness (i.e., the extent to which people are consciously aware of their ethnicity at any given moment) has different meanings for European Americans and Asian Americans and for Asian Americans with different ethnic identity orientations. The authors found main effects of ethnic group status and ethnic composition on ethnic self-awareness when comparing Asian...

background: obesity and diabetes are the most important problems of public health. evidence from molecular animal research and epidemiologic investigations indicate that calcium intake may have an influence on body composition, weight and insulin resistance. the objective of this study was to determine the effects of calcium supplementation on body composition, weight, insulin resistance and bl...

One of the most important decisions to be made in a face-to-face collaborative learning activity is how groups are composed. These compositions produce different learning and social interaction results. The possibility to change the group member composition in real time and dynamically may permit to level up the learning results and improve the social relationships among the participants. Besid...

background: menopause is associated with changes in body composition in postmenopausal women. the aim of this study was to compare the effects of tibolone and continuous combined hormone therapy (ht) on body composition in postmenopausal women. materials and methods: in this randomized clinical trial, 120 menopausal women were randomly selected and divided into three groups. of these, 40 women ...

the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of modified cloze procedure on writing proficiency of iranian intermediate efl learners. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 110 participants studying at semnan university majoring in english literature were tested on celt proficiency test. 65 participants who were found to be homogenous were selected and assigned randomly to two groups...