With the evolution in cloud technologies, users are becoming acquainted with seamless service provision. Nevertheless, clouds are not a user centric technology, and users become completely dependent on service providers. We propose a novel concept for clouds, where users self-organize to create their clouds. We present such an architecture for user-centric clouds, which relies on self-managed c...

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In most introductory programming courses tasks are given to students to complete as a crucial part of their study. In this paper, a set of guiding principles is presented for designing programming tasks aimed to elicit metacognitive behaviours in first year students. The main source of data gathered for this study is provided by first year programming students that studied in two different Info...

This study examines the relationships among hostility, grandiosity, dominance, narcissism, and self-esteem in samples of 84,57, and 300 Ss. The intercorrelations among various self-report and observer ratings of these constructs suggest that (a) hostility, grandiosity, dominance, and narcissism are substantially intercorrelated and form a coherent system of constructs and (b) the common varianc...

Medication is one of the most important factors for preventing, treating, or revealing the impact of illness and disease. Medication nonadherence is a challenge because it reduces the effectiveness of treatment and imposes significant resources on the healthcare system and society as a whole. Studies show that up to 50% of people with chronic illnesses do not take their medications as prescribe...