... 22∑Cr : the sum of correct responsesN: the number of studentsHenning (1987) pointed out that p value for each item should be between 0.33 and 0.67 and thus the level of difficulty of the item ... effective tool of measuring and assessing students’ language knowledge and skills and providing precious information for better future teaching and learning. 2.1.2. The purposes of language testsLanguage ... process of designing test content and test method. Test specification has to include information on the length, the structure of each part of the test, the type of materials with which the candidates...
... by thou-sands of concerned Americans through their letters and emails. And we are gratefulto the hundreds of individuals and organizations that offered expertise, informa-tion, and personal ... better understand this crisis and its causes, we also pres-ent specic conclusions at the end of chapters in Parts III, IV, and V of this report.The subject of this report is of no small consequence ... in and in —after the annual manage-ment fee and the slice of the prot for Cio and his Bear Stearns team and grew to almost billion by the end of . In the fall of ,...
... activation of the ERK1 ⁄ 2 and PKB pathways, and treatment with gefitinib orerlotinib causes inactivation of both pathways. Thus,expression of BIM and cell death could reflect loss of either pathway, ... such as MCL-1,BCL-2 and BCL-xLare often expressed at high levelsin CML cells [62,63,78,79], and this prompted aninvestigation of the efficacy of combinations of ABT-737 and BCR-ABL inhibitors. ... atten-tion in terms of drug discovery because of its role inpromoting cell proliferation and survival [10] and as aresult of the high frequency of rat sarcoma virus con-cogene (RAS) [33] and v-raf murine...
... the social treatment of boys and men, media and advertisements, and men’s health knowledge.Biology and GeneticsBiology contributes to men’s and boys’ greater risk of death, which begins in ... borders, so you can live and work and play as freely as you like.Key Determinants of the Health and Well-Being of Men and Boys 1124 years are murdered, and nearly 85% of them are boys or young ... with hand washing (Fung & Cairncross, 2007), which can signifi cantly reduce the risk of disease and death (see Chapter 2).Body ImageMen’s and boys’ perceptions of their muscularity and...
... 1997;337:1569–75.Risk of Arrhythmia and Sudden Death 16Box 2.2 Classification of arrhythmic death by cer-tainty of data●Documented arrhythmic death ● Instantaneous death (<5 min of new symptoms)with ... pleased when I wasoffered the opportunity of editing this book on risk strati-fication of arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. Indeed,some of the principles and methodologies of arrhythmiarisk ... risk of sud-den death. Using these parameters, there is a wide varia-tion in the risk of sudden death. Forty-two percent of sudden deaths in males and 53% in females occur in one-tenth of the...
... issue commands, launch programs, and generally control thecomputer. This usually starts as a command-line interface and later becomessome kind of graphical interface. One example of the interface ... 1991, he had most of the software pieces of the GNU operatingsystem complete with the exception of the kernel. In 1990, he started working onthe kernel and named it HURD (Hird of UNIX-Replacing ... name brand PC manufacturers— such as Dell, Compaq, and others— offer otheroperating systems. Table 1-1 shows a list of many of the operating systems.Table 1-1Popular PC operating systems and...
... points of view expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. In terms of direct losses, MasterCard and ... problem of identity theft unless (a) the basic information of theft of identification materials is collected and recorded for all crimes regardless of type and (b) a method is developed of analyzing ... that studies that interview offenders and their investigators to develop a scripting of the sequences of behaviors and decisions that offenders take in the course of their crimes is essential...
... selection and Watson and Crick’s discovery of the molecular structure of DNA. The grand understanding of the logic of life wouldprove equally important for understanding its demise: the logic of aging.Before ... phosphorylation and the synthesis of ATP. Critically important to allbiology and shaping our understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of this mostimportant of all cellular activities, the elegance of ... splendidvariability and to find out the details of its workings. Along these parallel paths of study-ing why life is and how it works, the science of aging emerged from the why and how of life’s natural...
... through all the chapters is of the dynamism of war and peace, on the onehand, and political and social geographies, on the other, and the interaction of the two.War and peace are not easily conceptualized. ... of interdiction policies on thesegroups, and the political and cultural conflicts that often result.Roger W. Stump is professor of geography and religious studies at the State Uni-versity of ... FORUNDERSTANDINGGEOGRAPHIES OF WAR AND PEACEThis page intentionally left blank xiiiContributorsJeremy Black, MBE, is professor of history at the University of Exeter and one of the world’s...
... as a cache of secondary storage data pages. The effect of this kind of caching on theperformance of UNIX and its traditional suite of application programs is dramatic. Compilation of a small ... speechunderstanding system [3] and a parallel implementation of OPS5 [7]. Mach has already been ported to more than a1dozen computer systems including ten members of the VAX family of uniprocessors and ... advantage, the ACM copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the Association of Computing Machinery.To copy otherwise,...