The present study was designed to initially test a model of the role of a set of cognitive (namely, aptitude and working memory) and motivational (namely, language learning goals, self-efficacy beliefs and self-regulation strategy use) individual differences variables in writing performance of a group of Iranian undergraduate EFL learners and, subsequently, to identify the possible differences ...

comparison of the effect of concept mapping and nursing process on self-regulated learning, self-efficacy and cognitive strategies in nursing students     rezaei k [1] *, kouhestani h [2] , nejat n [3] , ebrahimi fakhar h [4]     received: 12 oct , 2011 accepted: 20 jan , 2012     abstract   background & aims : the success of nursing students depends on the understanding of complex concepts and...

Game theoretical approaches have been used to develop distributed resource allocation technologies for cognitive heterogeneous networks. In this chapter, we present a novel distributed resource allocation strategy for cognitive small cell networks based on orthogonal frequency-division multiple access. In particular, we consider a heterogeneous network consisting of macrocell networks overlaid ...

Cognitive linguistics has always been an important branch of linguistics, and during 20th century, experienced three revolutions: Saussure’s structuralism revolution, Chomsky’s TG cognitive functional linguistics’ revolution to Joe’s revolution. Time 21st Wang Yin, a famous professor in China, put forward revolutionary point about based on the research philosophy. He proposed new concept, Embod...

This study investigated the extent to which cognitive measures of individual differences predict strategy shifts in a series of procedural-motor curve-drawing tasks. College students participated in a task which required them to trace or draw various forms of a figure-8 before completing a battery of cognitive tests. Three distinct drawing strategies emerged, and the tendency to vary these stra...

Patient-centered design addresses the priorities of the individual patient, and is advocated as a research strategy for the design of cognitive assistive technology. From the patient’s perspective, a robust system can be viewed as one that optimally increases her/his level of functioning over the long haul, for his/her priority activities, as they reveal themselves over time. Prosthetic softwar...

The current study draws on motivated information processing in groups theory to propose that leadership functions and composition characteristics provide teams with the epistemic and social motivation needed for collective information processing and strategy adaptation. Three-person teams performed a city management decision-making simulation (N=74 teams; 222 individuals). Teams first managed a...

—Spectrum sensing strategy is key to realize cognitive radio. However, spectrum sensing error would affect the access strategy of secondary users in cognitive networks. This paper addresses the spectrum sensing strategy under imperfect spectrum sensing, and proposes opportunistic spectrum access strategies for the imperfect spectrum sensing and fading channels respectively. By setting the opti...