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Self-determination and persistence in a real-life setting: Toward a motivational model of high school dropout.
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
, 1997
"... The purpose of this study was to propose and test a motivational model of high school dropout. The model posits that teachers, parents, and the school administration's behaviors toward students influence students' perceptions of competence and autonomy. The less autonomy supportive the so ..."
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' effects are hypothesized to be mediated by students' perceptions of competence and autonomy. Some evidence for this proposi-MOTIVATIONAL MODEL OF HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT 1163 tion exists. For instance, research has shown that the impact of feedback from a supervisor Dropping Out of High School as a
Storage performance virtualization via throughput and latency control
- In MASCOTS
, 2005
"... I/O consolidation is a growing trend in production environments due to the increasing complexity in tuning and managing storage systems. A consequence of this trend is the need to serve multiple users/workloads simultaneously. It is imperative to make sure that these users are insulated from each ot ..."
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other by virtualization in order to meet any service level objective (SLO). This paper presents a 2-level scheduling framework that can be built on top of an existing storage utility. This framework uses a low-level feedback-driven request scheduler, called AVATAR, that is intended to meet the latency
Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society.
- The British Journal of Sociology
, 2000
"... ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in v ..."
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the construction of an analytical framework that could inform, and better organize, further research. However, given the dif culty of the task, and the necessarily collective character of this endeavour, what is presented here should be considered, literally, as materials to be used in the building of a
Virtual Synchrony Guarantees for Cyber-Physical Systems
"... Abstract—By integrating computational and physical elements through feedback loops, CPSs implement a wide range of safetycritical applications, from high-confidence medical systems to critical infrastructure control. Deployed systems must therefore provide highly dependable operation against unpredi ..."
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correctness of our mechanisms. We further show, through extensive real-world experiments, that VIRTUS incurs a limited performance penalty compared with best-effort communication. To the best of our knowledge, VIRTUS is the first system to provide virtual synchrony guarantees atop resource-constrained CPS
Using virtual stock exchanges to forecast box-office revenue via functional shape analysis
- In The Prediction Markets Workshop at Electronic Commerce
, 2007
"... In this paper we propose a novel model for forecasting in-novation success based on online virtual stock markets. In recent years, online virtual stock markets have been increas-ingly used as an economic and efficient information gather-ing tool for the online community. It has been used to fore-cas ..."
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In this paper we propose a novel model for forecasting in-novation success based on online virtual stock markets. In recent years, online virtual stock markets have been increas-ingly used as an economic and efficient information gather-ing tool for the online community. It has been used to fore-cast
Students' perceptions of peer feedback
"... Abstract Researchers have posited that students have different perceptions of peer feedback depending on their cultural background. However, studies on American students' perceptions of peer feedback in foreign language writing research are scarce. The purpose of this study was to investigate ..."
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, stronger writing competence via mutual scaffolding" (pp. 321-322). This definition highlights the significance of providing opportunities for student interaction that can help students ultimately become self-regulated learners. Students' perceptions of the value of peer feedback The success of a
The role of friends' appearance and behavior on evaluations of individuals on Facebook: Are we known by the company we keep?.
- Human Communication Research,
, 2008
"... This research explores how cues deposited by social partners onto one's online networking profile affect observers' impressions of the profile owner. An experiment tested the relationships between both (a) what one's associates say about a person on a social network site via '&a ..."
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This research explores how cues deposited by social partners onto one's online networking profile affect observers' impressions of the profile owner. An experiment tested the relationships between both (a) what one's associates say about a person on a social network site via &apos
1 Facing Faceless Faces Competencies of Faceless and Semi Public Social Communication
"... Wellman (2001) has introduced a description of the social relationships and communities from old times till today as a development from door-to-door via place-to-place, to person-to-person and role-to-role communities, where the last two types are rather new, and the big increase in the past few yea ..."
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: The concept of virtual implies permeable interfaces and boundaries; project teams that rapidly form, reorganize, and dissolve when the needs of a dynamic marketplace change (Jarvenpaa & Leidner, 1999). The formation of virtual teams facilitate the incorporation of a wide range of knowledge and expertise
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