Prosperous development of corpus linguistics thrived the study on discourse markers, and among them, I think received a large share. Based on former researches, this paper adopted both quantitative and qualitative methods and made a contrastive analysis of the textual features of I think, choosing fiction and TV, these two various genres within COCA. The results demonstrate that there are sharp differences between these two genres in I think in terms of the frequency, positi...

Cooperative Communications  Linguistics 

Parents play vital roles in contributing to students’ achievement. They need to be actively involved in monitoring their children’s daily performance in school. This thesis focused on the design and implementation of a web-based system for engaging teachers and parents in monitoring students’ performance. It is aimed at providing a well-designed platform for real-time communication between teachers and parents with respect to children’s daily performance in school. A discussion on the analysis o...

Cooperative Communications  Information Management  Medical Education 

Security mechanism is a fundamental requirement of wireless networks in general and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in particular. The Intrusion Detection System (IDS) has become a critical component of wireless sensor networks security strategy. There are several architectures for embedding IDS in WSN. Due to Energy Limitation, in this paper we use a distributed architecture which activates intrusion detection system for limited number of nodes. For this purpose we select a secure set of nodes c...

Cooperative Communications  Computer and Network Security  Information and Communication: Security, Privacy, and Trust