... conclude that basic interpersonal communication skills acquired in one language not appear to transfer toa second language, whereas skills that are academically mediated (transfer of learned academic ... carefully assessed in the first and second languageto trace the development of first- and second -language abilities in relation to one another Our research design used a combination of standardized ... eachof these measures was administered in parallel Spanish and English versions To assess oral language proficiency, we used the Spanish and English versions of the LAS-O, a test of oral proficiency,...
... and discuss practical implications and directions for future research and practice 6 RE-AIM planning and evaluation framework RE-AIM was developed to help health planners and evaluators to attend ... Quality Assurance recommendations and clinical pathways of care) Connection to Health can work on a variety of input and output platforms, and assesses and provides feedback on multiple health ... conversation about eating patterns anda Connection to Health action plan for healthful eating and physical activity The primary care team can review the patient and physician reports prior to the office...
... finding that changing clinical practice is unpredictable and can be a slow and haphazard process Over the last decade a considerable body of literature has been published suggesting that a range of ... allow calculation of response rates and sample representativeness), and send reminders and financial incentives to those who have opted in (so as to enhance our response rate) Sample size and analysis ... 114 to test individual predictors We intend to approach approximately 420 individuals that make up approximately 120 mental health care teams This allows for a (worst case) response rate of around...
... techniques Additionally, TestGraf provides a graphical analysis of test items and/ or rated responses using Ramsay's "kernel smoothing" approach to IRT The software, manual, and documentation are available ... program for data analysis from tests, scales and questionnaires In particular, it displays the performance ofitemsand options within items, as well as other test diagnostics and utilizes nonparametric ... States of America Nathan S Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, United States of America Manahttan Psychiatric Center, Wards Island, NY, United States of America Educational...
... formative research provided the rationale for developing a general and standardized intervention framework However, local and cultural adaptation was necessary to make the intervention feasible and ... coordination as fundamental but acknowledge the importance of continuous contact and consultation with all cooperating centers to guarantee the opportunities and feasibility of local and cultural adaptation ... platform was already available The establishment of the community platform and the school working groups enabled adaptation to the local culture and circumstances and ensured the adoption and...
... Short stories in language teaching 1.2.2.1 Advantages of short stories in teaching languageskills When discussing the advantages of short stories in teaching language skills, Harper (1993) states ... others, often face -to- face and in real time, drives them to attempt to speak fluently and correctly Many people equate being able to speak alanguage as knowing the languageand therefore, view learning ... methodologist‟s ideas concerning the use of short stories in language teaching and learning include speaking and listening skills in foreign language teaching and literature in language teaching, which...
... Australian urban setting A greater understanding of the potential catchment area that a TOD and/ or Park & Ride may take to maximise patronage demands In the case of this latter factor, the actual ... effectiveness of any travel management tools applied, or the potential for an integrated land use and transport model to maximize patrons on transit systems In Australia, the use of travel demand management ... that may facilitate maximum patronage demands on fixed guideway rail or busway transit systems The use of Park & Rides and TODs to integrate residential land uses with a transit mode and help maximize...
... gain an understanding of XML Path Language (XPath) and how you can use XPath to locate parts of Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents and navigate through a document that is represented as a ... you can so that you can give participants additional ideas about the uses of XPath To understand XPath, participants will need good verbal and visual examples, so be ready to diagram XPath examples ... What Is XPath? This lesson introduces XPath and the reasons that you need it To understand the rest of the module, the participants must understand the nature of XPath as a navigational language...
... here to send me an e-mail at kevin@greatsystems.com that contains (1) your name, telephone number, and mailing address and (2) a clear statement of your intent to make the purchase itself After ... need to, and can, be changed in order to help shift your existing work culture towards higher levels of performance The tools and concepts are easy to use, and the examples I use to explain how ... during his 27 year business career He has also served as an Examiner, Senior Examiner, and Alumni Examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for nine years Kevin also writes the...
... can see how good your idea is, and make it stronger Here it goes: Step 1: Start with a broad idea Let’s say you want a kick ass social network for cereal box collectors” I’d say “that’s really ... be gathered around a few active forums Finding the community leaders would likely be very easy Just shoot them a quick e-mail with your idea, and ask “what you think?” And voila, your idea awaits! ... something about it Your idea’s probably more complicated than something like this, and that’s fine But the point stays the same: stop worrying, start testing, and repeat Watch your idea develop...
... profits are of essentially the same nature Each indicates that an excess value of resources exists on the assets side of the balance sheet Surplus almost invariably stands as a round sum, and although ... customers who may desire to remit drafts as means of payment, and (2) that the local bank may have agents in the centers to handle and collect drafts drawn by dealers or manufacturers who have shipped ... to several times the amount of their cash holdings, has been essayed again and again, but the traditional treatment appears to be marked by lack of insight into the heart of the problem, and the...
... Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs: Drugs such as acetaminophen, aspirin, and ibuprofen used to treat pain and inflammation Metastasis (plural: metastases, verb: metastasize): The spread of cancer cells ... produce and release a hormone (PTHrP) into the bloodstream that can increase the rate at which bones release calcium Lung cancer that has spread to bone can also cause an increased release of calcium ... treatment of cancer that involves the bone • Provide information and serve as a resource for physicians, nurses, andother health professionals regarding the management of cancer that spreads to...
... information obtained from the OSCE participating States Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, ... examination and assessment of the efficiency, the advantages and disadvantages of various international and national content regulation measures – particularly vis-à-vis fundamental rights of ... positively to this question 44 (78.6%) states responded negatively and Albania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Poland explicitly stated that there are no...
... spectrophotometer (Varian Canada Inc., Mississauga, ON, Canada) in a cm quartz cuvette at room temperature (22 °C) and recorded using the cary win uv scan software application The wavelength range of ... Healthcare, Piscataway, NJ, USA), superfine G-25 Sephadex (Pharmacia ⁄ Pfizer, Oakville, ON, Canada) anda stirred ultrafiltration cell (Amicon Bioseparations ⁄ Millipore, Bedford, MA, USA) with a ... M J Stillman Noncooperative metallation of metallothionein A gly M4(Scys)11 ser met gly lys Domain of Recombinant Human MT ala ala ala ala B Fig (A) Sequence of the a domain of rhMT- 1a, showing...
... these regular, loyal and dedicated customers They are hooked toa particular store and don‟t need to be reminded again and again about the store STRATEGY TO HANDLE SUCH CUSTOMERS: Regular follow ... humble and patient to listen to their knowledgeable views Therefore instead of you doing the talking, let them speak and as soon as you get a cue that they are aware about the product/brand and are ... They cannot be ignored as they often visit the store again and again and therefore eventually become store loyal They can be a source of „word-ofmouth‟ publicity too STATEGY TO HANDLE SUCH CUSTOMERS:...
... bottom of the chamber to dissipate any heat built up in the transducer The transducer was affixed to an offset cam to allow it to rotate in a horizontal plane against the bottom of the ultrasound ... breeders served as untreated controls Sham-treated animals underwent all preparations for ultrasound treatment as treated animals: anesthesia was administered and maintained at - 2.5% isoflurane/oxygen, ... and increased lumen diameter due to the loss of all spermatocytes and spermatids (D) Tubules that appear to have a larger epithelial layer and smaller diameter lumen were still missing spermatocytes...
... obtained the data shown in table VII This table shows the discriminating capacity ofeach variable for differentiating the male and female populations as well as their age group and place of ... populations Using the values ofeach direct anthropometric variable separately, we performed a statistical analysis First, mean values were grouped according to age and place of residence as shown ... Statistic analysis was performed using MINITAB Mtb 13 and Excel software Results Table II shows the mean values obtained for eachof the anthropometric variables by sex, age group and place of...
... organisms as diverse as Neurospora crassa, Candida tropicalis, Dictyostelium discoideum, Medicago varia (alfalfa), Arabidopsis thaliana, Oryza sativa (rice), Caenorhabditis elegans, Drosophila ... Mutation of twins encoding a regulator of protein phosphatase 2A leads to pattern duplication in Drosophila imaginal discs Genes Dev 7, 429±440 Ito, A. , Kataoka, T.R., Watanabe, M., Nishiyama, ... PP 2A A subunit binding domains (Eur J Biochem 269) 551 Fig Binding of the two conserved domains in Ba and PR72 to the A subunit of PP 2A Fragments of rat Ba and human PR72 encompassing ASBD and...
... Radial Siphon Parallel 6.16 Inclined semi-Kaplan siphon Axial Siphon Parallel 6.17 Kaplan S Axial Gate valve Parallel 6.18 Kaplan inclined right angle Axial Gate valve Conical 6.19 Semi-Kaplan ... and software to be standardised Cost reduction can be realised through the use ofa standard system and modular software allows for easy maintenance Automatic control systems can significantly ... section ofa Francis Runner 172 Guide on How toDevelopa Small Hydropower Plant ESHA 2004 The de Siervo and de Leva11 and Lugaresi et Massa13 articles, based on a statistical analysis of more than...