A commonly encountered view of computer conferencing focuses on peer interaction, student empowerment and a shift in both teacher and student roles. This paper argues that this view overemphasises the medium and minimises the importance of factors such as the setting and structure of the conferencing and the discipline area. To gain a better understanding of the relevant factors that affect con...

In tins paper, an architecture is presented for robust and portable summansatlon, COSY-MATS COSY-MATS Can avmd the superfimahty and domain-dependence of IE approaches by means of lngh-level (pragmatic and rhetorical) content selectmn features It can also obviate the text typedependence and cumbersome computation• revolved m NLU-based snmmansatl0n systems, because surface criteria are add~t~onal...

Signaling for Conferencing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Chunyan Fu, Ph. D. Concordia University, 2008 Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) are networks that do not need to be preconfigured. They are composed of transient nodes connected through wireless interfaces. Due to their flexibility, the ease to build and the associated low cost, they are gaining more and more momentum. They are also seen as par...

Benefits of case conferencing for people with palliative care needs between a general practitioner, the person and other key participants include improving communication, advance care planning, coordination of care, clarifying goals of care and support for patient, families and carers. Despite a growing evidence base for the benefits, the uptake of case conferencing has been limited in South Au...

This paper considers an enhancement to multi-cell processing for the uplink of a cellular system, whereby the mobile stations are allowed to exchange messages on orthogonal channels of fixed capacity (conferencing). Both conferencing among mobile stations in different cells and in the same cell (inter and intra-cell conferencing, respectively) are studied. For both cases, it is shown that a rat...

The present study was aimed at investigating intermediate Iranian EFL learners’ feedback preferences on their L2 writing and examining the possible differences between learners with entity and incremental language mindsets with respect to their feedback preferences. To this end, 150 EFL learners were recruited from several language institutes in Isfahan, Iran, and their language proficiency lev...

I examine the inXuence of the framing of investment portfolios on the risk-taking behavior of individual investors. Investment portfolios can be presented either in aggregated or segregated framing, meaning that either the overall distribution or the single investments of portfolios are displayed. Previous studies have found that simple lottery portfolios are more attractive if their overall di...