Research findings indicate conflicting views as to interference from L1 rhetorical patterns in the essays written by students whose first language is not English. Essays are still considered important for required assignments ...

Research on L1 Arabic students’ academic writing has indicated a general weakness in organizing their ideas. At the university level, there are certain academic writing genres that are required and which students find ...

Few studies have compared peer-editing to self-editing with respect to writing development. This study addresses this gap in literature. It uses a pre-test/post-test comparison group quasi-experimental design and employs ...

This quasi-experimental study examined the effect of different sources of corrective feedback (teacher, peer, self) on reducing pronoun agreement and lexical errors in student essays. Three Lebanese university student ...

Web Services represent a recent promising software technology that provides application-to-application interaction. Web Services are described using Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and the Universal Description, ...

We experimentally analyze the general applicability of genetic algorithms (GA) and simulated annealing algorithms (SA) for mapping data to multicomputers. The results show that the GA and SA are insensitive to user parameters ...

Portfolio optimization refers to allocating an amount of investors’ wealth to different assets in order to satisfy the investors’ preferences for return and risk. We address the portfolio optimization problem with real-world ...

We present a new approach to balancing the workload in a multicomputer. It is based on a genetic algorithm that combines a number of design choices in order to ameliorate the problem of premature convergence. The genetic ...

Scheduling of final exam usually results in conflicts and inconvenience. Conflicts occur when simultaneous exams are scheduled for the same student, and inconvenience to a student refers to consecutive exams or more than ...

Exam timetabling is a computationally intractable problem, which requires heuristic techniques for producing good sub-optimal solutions within reasonable execution time. For large numbers of exams and students, sequential ...