... usually usethe 95% CI, the range that includes the true mortality rate 95% of the time The narrower the CI, the closer the lower and upper boundaries of the CI are to the point estimate, the greater ... tracing the occupants of empty households If they could not find occupants or if occupants refused to participate, or if no household member older than 14 years was at home, they skipped the household ... but households are arranged in some geometric pattern and the investigators is aware of the number of households, the investigator can choose one household in a cluster at random, and then sample...
... of time and money To what extend you agree with this statement? Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of tourism Using nicknames to chat on the Internet has some advantages and disadvantages ... aloud the following passage: Another feature of many leisure activities is the introduction to a whole new social work, providing companionship with other like-minded people New friends can be ... words in the dictionary, what did you often do? a looked at its meaning only b looked at its pronunciation and meaning, then pronounced it in mind c looked at its pronunciation and meaning, then...
... 6-9, and then did not spend any time learning it at her upper secondary school She chose the CFL, VNU to take the exam for the purpose of gaining marks and transferring the marks to another university ... Moreover, the teacher cannot be sure whether learners have a chance to use it outside the class, as well as whether they want to it or not As for learners’ attitude toward the foreign language, the ... a table, and then ask the teacher to translate any utterances they wish to be able to speak in the target language The teacher then provides students with the phrase they need orally After some...
... contributions SR and KKP evaluated the patient KKP, VC, and SK collected data, reviewed the literature, and wrote the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The ... a silent bystander, rather than a contributor to the headache, because the headache improved despite the persistence of the calcification Nevertheless, it is a powerful clue to the possible existence ... various anticonvulsants, and NSAIDs would rule out, to a large extent, tension headaches and primary headaches The most likely cause of headache in our patient was CRF and disturbances of calcium and...
... absence of an intact rectus abdominis muscle and anterior rectus sheath, only a vertical incision lateral to the linea semilunaris and separation in the plane between oblique external and internal ... denervation The myocutaneous flap has no advantages in terms of autologous tissue volume and the possibility of modelling symmetric and natural-looking breasts SIEA-flaps can only be used if a ... to the border of the rectus sheath and separation continued in the more-or-less avascular plane between the external and internal oblique muscles, leaving the external oblique lateral to the...
... acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of the data, and wrote the manuscript FH, EM and LG made substantial contributions to acquisition of data and helped to draft the manuscript YLM performed the ... statistical analysis and participated in the design of the study BR participated in the design and coordination of the study and performed the statistical analysis All authors read and approved the final ... Second, the study period was long Even if no significant changes occurred in overall anesthetic and surgical management, we cannot preclude some minor changes that could have finally influenced the...
... ways The alerting of the paramedics was quite unorthodox in that they were contacted directly by bystanders and not via the dispatch centre, which is the standard Therefore, in this instance, the ... paramedics themselves were the first to initiate contact with the dispatch centre and define the need for further assistance The mode of overdose is also unusual, and we find it important to raise the ... PEA The context could very easily lead one to wrongly infer a cardiac cause, and notan overdose The rural setting, age of the patient and recent medical history all pointed in that direction The...
... is notan available ESP syllabus of Land Management and Use for our ESP teachers As far as I know, at other institutions providing the Land Management and Use major, the materials used for the ... identifies the situation in which the learner will usethe language and the typical communicative acts and language used in that setting” This language is always used in a specific context and cannot ... to Land Management and Use; - accumulate basic vocabulary of Land Management and Use; - review and consolidate basic grammatical structures used in specialized texts for Land Management and Use; ...
... Geography of the UK and the US and British Studies in the previous semesters and they had just completed the course in question of American Studies before the end of their third year These students ... practical side, discussed the participants, the research instruments, and the procedure of data collection and data analysis as a means to maximize the validity and reliability of the whole research ... of the current teaching method used in the American Studies courses, and so this thesis was an ideal chance to aid in the effort During the three recent academic years from 2008 to 2011, the...
... the speaking test, they gain nothing about the language use in a specific situation and they cannot communicate in English in their real life if the real life situations require them to use Therefore, ... researcher used the key questions in the interview sheets and quickly took notes their answers The data from the field notes were then analyzed to synthesize what really happened when they worked ... which the learners act as someone else and imagine themselves in a situation outside the classroom and usethe language in the new context Only 21 and 8.9% of them answered that in role plays, the...
... questions from the suggested words and answering them; choosing true or false) Or: Reading the passage and answering the questions Question V: Completing the passage by filling the X X blanks with ... "Dispersion refers to the spread of the values around the central tendency" in which the range and the standard deviation are two common measures In this study, however, Mean and Standard Deviation ... the students pronounce a language, the best way is to get them to speak On the other hand, if they want to check students' grammar structures, it is better for them to use multiple-choice testing...
... comments on the interpretations of data and on the manuscript SMG and EKY supervised the whole research process All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors ... Authors’ contributions VCHC, CHL and SMG conceived the research idea CHL conducted the statistical analysis VCHC interpreted the result and wrote the first draft of the manuscript FWKC, JHSY, ELYW ... western medicine consultation services and western OTC medications in the previous year 32.7% used western medicine consultation only, and 16.6% used neither western OTC medication nor western...
... at the crooked (anchor) arms of the dynamometer The distance between the crooks was 30 ± mm (the optimal distance preventing interference), and the velocity was 50mm/sec The test ends at the ... elderly skin) can be induced if it is too tight On the other hand, if the suture knot is too relaxed, the wound line will not be not sealed enough to prevent infiltration of microbes or other foreign ... were then analyzed to measure the surface stain area using an image analysis system (IAS) We chose the above timing because we found by trial and error that there will be no stain left after...
... learner’s performance in the language The development and theuse of language tests involve an understandingof the nature of communicative language use and language ability, on the one hand, and of measurement ... From the above analysis we have the mean ≈ 5.5 and the median = 5.As a result there’s M= x = a quite fairly correspondence between the mean and the median When comparing to the results the students ... dispersion: the low-high, the range, and the standard deviation 3.6.3.1 .The low-high The LOW-HIGH involves finding the lowest value and the highest value in a set of numbers When looking at the marks the...