There are many problems around us need to be solved by human agents. It is very challenging to persuade people to change behavior implicitly, especially for solving public problems. We leverage persuasive mechanism for increasing incentives to change human behavior in a problem solving framework. By linking feedback to the actions, we’ve been able to increase the incentives to trigger behavior ...

The macula densa detects changes in NaCl concentration in tubular fluid and transmits a feedback signal, known as tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF), which helps to control glomerular afferent arteriole resistance. We and other investigators have reported that synthesis of NO in the macula densa inhibits TGF. NO can be scavenged by superoxide (O(-)(2)) to form peroxynitrite, effectively reducing t...

the research was aimed at finding out the effects of the implementation of writing feedback techniques and students’ writing anxiety on students’ writing ablity. experimental method of 3x2 factorial design was employed in the research. there were three experimental groups of students who were taught by using teacher feedback, peer feedback and the combination of peer and teacher feedback writin...

Both preheating of the intergalactic medium and radiative cooling of low entropy gas have been proposed to explain the deviation from self-similarity in the cluster LX−TX relation and the observed entropy floor in these systems. However, severe overcooling of gas in groups is necessary for radiative cooling alone to explain the observations. Non-gravitational entropy injection must therefore st...

ABR mechanism was designed for controlling the traffic flows in ATM networks. The key factor for efficient and stable controlling of traffic control loops is fast transfer of feedback control information from the network back to the traffic source. In ABR mechanism so-called Resource Management (RM) cells are used for this purpose. Limited number of these control cells is especially noticeable ...