BACKGROUND Previous cross-sectional studies found that positive beliefs about electronic nicotine delivery systems (commonly known as electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes) were associated with use of these products. However, the prospective association between these beliefs and subsequent use of e-cigarettes is unclear. PURPOSE To identify the beliefs predicting subsequent use of e-cigarette...

ReaderBench is a multi-purpose, multi-lingual and flexible environment that enables the assessment of a wide range of learners’ productions and their manipulation by the teacher. ReaderBench allows the assessment of three main textual features: cohesion-based assessment, reading strategies identification and textual complexity evaluation, which have been subject to empirical validations. Reader...

Urban geographers and sociologists use ideas about “encounter” “conviviality” to understand ways of engaging with difference in cities enabling people step outside a fixed identi...

Any organization that develops software strives to improve the quality of its products. To do this first requires an understanding of the quality of the current product version. Then by iteratively making changes, the software can be improved with subsequent versions. But this must be done in a systematic and methodical way and for this purpose, we have developed a specific strategy called SIQi...