word of mouth communications in marketing is one of the important informal communication tools between consumer of goods, service and organizations which is appointed with the researchers. the purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between locus of control with word of mouth communication between students of isfahan university. this is a survey study which it is samples were 243...

Information gathering is a very important aspect of the design process, one that is used continuously throughout the project to make informed design decisions. This study reports the development of an authentic instrument used to assess skills related to information gathering in first-year engineering students. Existing assessment tools, such as the scenario-based SelfKnowledge Inventory of Lif...

As roadway systems age and maintenance budgets shrink, a need emerges for timely and roughness data for pavement maintenance decision-making. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) maintains the third-largest state network of roadways in America, with $1.8 billion budgeted for roadway maintenance in 2012. Pavement assessment data in Virginia is currently collected by a contractor usin...

Calculating test validity as an instrument of educational achievement level determination, is one of the main research tasks, especially on a state level. The system of HEI admission must be based on the principles of fairness and openness. This can only be achieved by conducting systematic admission test result analysis both in the context of organization processes and within the assessment of...

BACKGROUND To investigate and to compare the effectiveness of a nurse short message service (SMS) by cellular phone and telephone follow-up by nurse on Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels in people with type 2 diabetes. METHODS Semi experimental study consisted of 77 patients with type 2 diabetes that randomly assigned to two groups: telephone follow-up (n = 39) and short message service (...

While address trace analysis is a popular method to evaluate the memory system of computers , getting accurate traces of operating system, multiprogrammed, and parallel workloads in multiprocessors is hard. This is because the true behavior of these real-time loads can be easily altered by the tracing activity. To minimize perturbation, it is usually necessary to use trace-gathering hardware de...

Disruption of a terrorist attack depends on having information facilitating the identification and location of those involved in supporting, planning, and carrying out the attack. Such information arises from myriad sources, such as human or instrument surveillance by intelligence or law enforcement agencies, a variety of documents concerning transactions, and tips from a wide range of occasion...

While address trace analysis is a popular method to evaluate the memory system of computers , getting accurate traces of operating system, multiprogrammed, and parallel workloads in multiprocessors is hard. This is because the true behavior of these real-time loads can be easily altered by the trace collecting activity. To minimize perturbation, it is usually necessary to use trace-gathering ha...

We present an overview of the second shared task on language identification in codeswitched data. For the shared task, we had code-switched data from two different language pairs: Modern Standard ArabicDialectal Arabic (MSA-DA) and SpanishEnglish (SPA-ENG). We had a total of nine participating teams, with all teams submitting a system for SPA-ENG and four submitting for MSA-DA. Through evaluati...

A comprehensive critical survey of the controversies, theories and practices central to secondary education today, this book provides teachers, researchers, parents and policy-makers alike with a vital new reference resource."Secondary Education: The Key Concepts" covers important topics, including: * assessment* citizenship* curriculum* e-learning* exclusion* theories of learning* work experie...