Recommender systems use a set of reviewers and advice givers with the goal of providing accurate userdependent product predictions. In general, these systems assign weights to different reviewers as a function of their similarity to each user. As products are known to be from different domains, a recommender system also considers product domain information in its predictions. As there are few r...

Professional sponsorship is a helping relationship aimed at a career advancement. It includes the hierarchical association between the mentor and protégé, and the collegial associations between peer mentors, among "peer pals," and in support networks. Sponsors serve as advocates, emotional supporters, and information-givers for those they sponsor. The adoption of sponsorship as a leadership dev...

Caregiver's burden is a multidimensional phenomenon affecting care-givers physically, emotionally and socially. It is critical to examine the burden of caregivers, because of the complex responsibility they have with their partners. There are relatively few studies that have examined factors linked with psychological burden amongst caregivers of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients. H...

this study is an attempt tofind the effect of four types of feedback(direct,underline,code,translation)on the writing performance of iranian learners ofjapanese as a foreign language.in this research,we have tried to suggest new ways of correcting students’writing through giving different kinds of feedback in the process of learning to write.the study focused on the accuracy of using prepositio...

Abstract The extent to which teachers’ written corrective feedback (WCF) is conducive to ESL learners’ improvement has been discussed since Truscott’s claim in 1996. The mentioned debate continues because there has been lots of contrastive research studies with different results. This paper presents the results of a 2-month study of the effectiveness of WCF to 65 low intermediate Iranian learne...

this research explores the effects of three computer-mediated feedback modalities, that is, elicitation, recast, and meta-linguistics, on the learning of english participial, gerund, and infinitival phrases among iranian intermediate-level efl learners. the overriding focus of the present study was to investigate whether different types of feedback given through form-focused computer-human exch...

this study aimed at investigating the effect of the type of feedback and practice on the acquisition of parameter index. for this purpose, 8 groups (each 12 subjects) were formed: constant practice group with self–controlled feedback, constant practice group with yoked feedback (yoked group), blocked practice group with self–controlled feedback, blocked practice group with yoked feedback, rando...

Abstract Medical assistance in dying (MAID) is legal Canada but cannot be accessed through an advance request. Some data suggest that informal care-givers of persons with dementia support the legalisation requests for MAID. Opponents argue care-givers' due to society's failure address their well-documented burden and unmet needs. To our knowledge, this assumption has never been tested. fill kno...