Fifty blogs were analysed and classified according to both their content and formal structure. The SOLAT questionnaire, aimed at assessing the right (i.e., intuitive-holistic) vs. left (i.e., systematic-analytical) thinking style, was put online, and blog owners were asked to complete it in order to match their cognitive style to the “style” of their blog. Respondents were also asked some metac...

The origins of poor insight in schizophrenia are still unclear. We contrasted the changes in clinical insight, basic cognitive processes, autobiographical memory and metacognition in 63 outpatients with schizophrenia pseudo-randomly assigned to one of three cognitive remediation groups: one targeting basic cognitive processes (RECOS), a second autobiographical memory (REMAu), and a third metaco...

Fine-grained authorization (FGA) is a critical feature of many database applications. The general approach to FGA both in research and practice is the following: FGA policies are enforced by rewriting queries as a function of the current user. This query rewriting suffices for supporting the functionality of FGA but essentially treats FGA as a second-class citizen — most of the DBMS is unaware ...

Current configuration management systems promote workspaces that isolate developers from each other. This isolation is both good and bad. It is good, because developers make their changes without any interference from changes made concurrently by other developers. It is bad, because not knowing which artifacts are changing in parallel regularly leads to problems when changes are promoted from w...

BACKGROUND Peer outreach harm reduction initiatives are being developed with and for people who use drugs in Dakar, Senegal. This is in response to growing injecting drug use across the West Africa region and linked emerging epidemics of HIV and hepatitis C. We undertook formative qualitative research to explore the feasibility and potential of peer outreach in this context and in particular ho...

A distributed non-hierarchical metacognitive architecture is one in which all meta-level reasoning components are subject to meta-level monitoring and management by other components. Such metacognitive distribution can support the robustness of distributed IT systems in which humans and artificial agents are participants. However, robust metacognition also needs to be context-aware and use dive...

Self-regulated learning (SRL) and metacognition are key in the context of 21 century education, adult training, and lifelong learning. For instructional strategies to foster metacognition and self-regulation it is crucial to know what are good metacognitive and SRL behaviors. We investigated this question in the context of a training simulator in a curriculum setting with 152 medical students. ...

The study investigated English as a foreign language learners’ metacognitive awareness of reading strategy use. The participants were 12 Taiwanese college students who were required to read aloud and think aloud the eight designated texts. The collected data came from the pre-and postquestionnaires and an interview on metacognition in EFL reading as well as participants’ thinkaloud protocols. T...