1 My research interests center primarily in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). In particular, I am interested in how people interact, communicate, and work with and through technology, and in assisting them maintain and improve their individual and group practices. My dissertation research focuses on the design and evaluation of computi...

SWOG (formerly the Southwest Oncology Group), a National Cancer Institute-supported cooperative group, conducts multi-institutional, multidisciplinary clinical trials for adult patients with cancer, covering a wide range of solid tumors and hematologic cancers. The group has amassed a large set of biospecimens, collected from patients in numerous studies over many years and linked to clinical d...

In this article, the problem of downlink subcarrier allocation in a cooperative wireless multiuser OFDM system is investigated. We consider a single-cell where all the users are paired in cooperative groups. The mobile users in each group amplify and forward their partner’s data stream using a time division protocol. Based on the capacity contribution from the relaying terminal, a new parameter...

The present study aimed to explore whether focused written corrective feedback has any significant effect on improving undergraduate university students’ paragraph writing ability; if so, the study fur- ther sought to demonstrate whether this effect differs within high/low self-regulated learners or not. For the purpose of the study, 60 BA university students wer...

The main role and responsibility of second language writing teachers is to help learners to write with minimal errors. To do so, teachers need to provide students with appropriate types of feedback. In this research, the researchers examined the effect of post-text written corrective feedback on written grammatical accuracy of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. In the first phase, Nelson Profic...

This study seeks to investigate the effect of explicit and implicit corrective feedback on the narrative writing of advanced Iranian EFL learners. In so doing, the study was conducted with 76 advanced EFL learners from 3 intact classes at an English language teaching institute in Iran. The sample was selected from among 92 learners by means of Oxford Quick Placement Test. After the researchers ...

We study cooperative output feedback tracking control of stochastic linear heterogeneous leader- following multiagent systems. Each agent has a conti- nuous-time dynamics with incompletely measurable state, and there are additive multiplicative noises along information exchange among agents. propose set admissible distributed observation strategies for estimating the leader’s followers’ states ...

Studies were conducted to analyze the incidence and factors influencing maternal dystocia in bitches and the frequency of various types of maternal dystocia by analyzing medical records of dystocia cases presented at the department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Veterinary College, Hebbal, Bangalore between January 1997 to March 2009 as well as the data generated from clinical cases of dystocia...