the objectives of this study were (a) to examine the writing performance of l2 learners on the level-specific tasks based on common european framework of reference (cefr) and (b) to investigate whether there was any difference between the students' self-assessed level of writing and the writing level reported by the raters. this study was conducted with 138 iranian students at ba and ma levels ...

This paper describes behavior and testing of the vehicles set up by VisLab to cover, in autonomous mode, a long 13.000 km trip from Italy to China, passing through Moscow. The paper, begins with a short description of the hardware and focuses on the vehicle behavior, what kind of situations is able to negotiate and how they are managed. A description of how the system has been tested and how it...

Nowadays the Internet grows relatively rapid in the functions, the topology and the number of router address prefixes, caused by the rapid increase in the number of connected hosts and the deployment of the Internet infrastructure. This writing examines/describes a number of previous studies, which have dealt with various aspects of routing behavior in the Internet. These studies used experimen...

Just what do system administration and ethnography have in common? One might think that ethnography is about studying cultures, but in a broader sense, ethnography means “writing about and describing humans and human behavior.” For better or worse, system administration involves many human-to-human and human-to-machine interactions. Ethnographers have been studying the behavior of system admini...

Programming by demonstration systems have long attempted to make it possible for people to program computers without writing code. These systems typically employ artificial intelligence techniques to learn from user behavior in order to predict their future behavior. However, while these systems have resulted in many publications in AI venues, none of the technologies have yet achieved widespre...

Programming by demonstration systems have long attempted to make it possible for people to program computers without writing code. These systems typically employ artificial intelligence techniques to learn from user behavior in order to predict their future behavior. However, while these systems have resulted in many publications in AI venues, none of the technologies have yet achieved widespre...

An intervention to affect prescribing behavior was implemented at a large psychiatric hospital. Articles providing support for appropriate dosing of quetiapine were distributed to physicians, and peer discussions about prescribing practices were held. From April 2005 through December 2006, low-dose quetiapine prescriptions (<or=200 mg per day) were flagged. For four months, physicians writing l...

An important question is how to determine if a person is exhibiting suicidal tendencies in behavior, speech, or writing. This paper demonstrates a method of analyzing written material to determine whether or not a person is suicidal or not. The method involves an analysis of word frequencies that are then translated into a fuzzy cognitive map that will be able to determine if the word frequency...

the purpose of the present study is to develop appropriate scoring scales for each of the defined stages of the writing process, and also to determine to what extent these scoring scales can reliably and validly assess the performances of efl learners in an academic writing task. two hundred and two students’ writing samples were collected after a step-by-step process oriented essay writing ins...