Published by the IEEE Computer Society 0018-9162/11/$26.00 © 2011 IEEE IEEE President-Elect Candidates Address Computer Society Concerns T he I E E E C omp u t e r Society has established a r e p u t a t i o n f o r excellence within the fields of computing. As a component of the IEEE, the Computer Society’s activities parallel those of 38 other IEEE societies and councils serving the computing...

The present study was an attempt to examine how questioning was treated by EFL instructors and learners at a private language center in Yasouj, Iran. This study also intended to explore the types of questions posed by the EFL instructors and learners in different course levels and to scrutinize the extent to which the instructors’ classroom behaviors were geared towards enhancing the learners’ ...

Currently, a global third generation cellular system based on CDMA is being developed with a wider bandwidth than existing second generation system. The RAKE Receiver instead of completely eliminating multipath uses techniques to effectively utilize multipath to produce the desired signal. This paper proposes interference mitigation by CDMA RAKE receiver with WalshHadamard Sequence for DSCDMA s...

The European Commission Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) call for tender to carry out two studies on the added value of strategic and life-course approach to vaccination , and on shortcomings related to low vaccination in healthcare workers, respectively, will close on 13 September 2016. According to the tender document 'each study has to include a representativ...

We propose strategic games wherein the strategies consist of players asking each other questions and answering those questions. We study simplifications of such games wherein two players simultaneously ask each other a question that the opponent is then obliged to answer. The motivation for our research is to model conversation including the dynamics of questions and answers, to provide new lin...

AnswerFinder is a framework for the development of question-answering systems. AnswerFinder is currently being used to test the applicability of graph representations for the detection and extraction of answers. In this paper we briefly describe AnswerFinder and introduce our method to learn graph patterns that link questions with their corresponding answers in arbitrary sentences. The method i...

. This paper discusses active teaching and learning strategies that have been used in the TeNeT Online tutorials [1]. The focus of these tutorials is to enable rural students to pass the Standard X examination. The highlight of the tutorial is the use of the Question and Answer format. This problem-solving approach is evident in its three-pronged format: Learn, Practice and Test. Every module i...

This study compared two methods for identifying troublesome examination questions: a postexam student "challenge committee" process and a "question citation" procedure allowing students to identify troublesome questions during an exam. Challenged and cited questions on eight examinations given to second-year medical students were compared with respect to the percentage of correct responses (%CR...

FYI on Questions and Answers Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This FYI RFC is one of two FYI's called, "Questions and Answers" (Q/A), produced by the User Services Working Group of the Internet Engineerin...