To solve this problem, recent research in reflective middleware8 uses techniques derived from previous work in computational reflection to add flexibility to middleware. Reflective middleware exploits Gregory Kiczales’ meta-object protocol, combining the ideas of computational reflection and object orientation.9 His model distinguishes between base-level objects (concerning the systems’ functio...

The objective was to model a type of effective team participant, the reflective communicator, and the variety of communicative roles that they conducted during four, eight-person preservice teacher team email discussions of their classroom observations. An aggregate statistical analysis revealed significant correlations between the quality of reflective observations provided, and the number and...

OBJECTIVE To expose the significant events undergraduate student nurses reflect on during clinical experiences as they learn to become nurses. DESIGN A qualitative study using reflective instruments of unstructured debriefing sessions and journal writing. SETTING Conducted in a tertiary hospital in South-eastern Queensland, Australia. SUBJECTS Forty voluntarily consenting students were in...

The sensitivity of second and third generations of interferometric gravitational wave (GW) detectors will be limited by the thermal noise of the test-mass mirrors and highly reflective coatings. Recently developed crystalline coatings show a promising thermal noise reduction compared to presently used amorphous coatings. However, stringent requirements apply to the optical properties of the coa...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of reflective thinking effects in the process of designing software on students’ learning performances. The study contends that reflective thinking is a useful teaching strategy to improve learning performance among lower achieving students. Participants were students from two groups: Higher achieving students were the control group, and lower...

Reflective symmetry can be used as a strong prior for many computer vision tasks. We interpret the planar reflective symmetry detection by using the property of an involution, which implies that two pairs of matched points are enough to define a planar reflective symmetry observed from a non-frontal viewpoint. This makes the reflective symmetry estimation as efficient as the classical homograph...

PURPOSE Within the profession of speech-language pathology, there is limited information related to both conceptual and empirical perspectives of reflective practice. This review considers the key concepts and approaches to reflection and reflective practice that have been published in the speech-language pathology literature in order to identify potential research gaps. METHOD A scoping revi...

With the rise of clusters as a vehicle for very-highperformance computing, an increasing emphasis is being placed upon the communication interface between each processor and the underlying network. And while many studies have explored the design of both traditional send/receive network interfaces and shared-memory designs, a third alternative — reflective memory — offers a significantly differe...

Reflective practice has become part of the discourse of nursing education classrooms, conferences, and journals, and are popular features of nursing continuing education programs. Yet, the idea of reflective practice has become increasingly more disparate. This critical analysis examines data-based studies and provides an overview of reflective practice, discusses common themes that emerged fro...