this study aimed at investigating the effect of learners’ gender on their preferences for corrective feedback. learners’ prefer- ences which were investigated included the necessity, frequency, timing, type, method, and delivering agent of error treatment. to this end, a questionnaire was administered to a random sample of 100 participants (50 males and 50 females) studying english (efl) at shi...

Preferences are ubiquitous in real-life. Moreover, preferences can be of many kinds: qualitative, quantitative, conditional, positive or negative, to name a few. Our ultimate goal is to define and study formalisms that can model problems with both constraints and many kind of preferences, possibly defined by several agents, and to develop tools to solve such problems efficiently. In this paper ...

Effective Health Care s Current NHS policy emphasises the need for good communication between health professionals and patients. s The most common complaints made by people with cancer are about poor communication and inadequate information. s Patients cannot express informed preferences about their care, choose to be involved in decision-making, or indeed choose not to participate, unless they...

conclusions it is concluded that the most of pregnant women are oblivious to their health for getting pregnant and some of them experience symptoms of mental disorders in reproductive age. the findings show that domestic violence is a hidden and persistent epidemic among the pregnant women. women, who had more previous delivery, needed this information less. results the results showed that 17.5...

objectives: the purpose of this research was to identify and present environmental aspects that affect elders presence and participation in urban public spaces. methods & materials: the current research is an analytic- descriptive type in survey beds. statistical sample of this research were elders over 65 years of shiraz city that attended and participated in urban public places. data of this ...

objective: to assess the knowledge, attitude, practice and preferences on contraceptive methods among the female population, to determine the association between knowledge and attitude on contraceptive methods with the variables. materials and methods: a descriptive survey of 136 females between 18-45 year of age were done using a structured knowledge questionnaire, structured attitude scale an...

The aim of this study was to adapt to Catalan the parents' and children's global report forms of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ), using a community sample of 364 children between 10 and 15 years old and their families. Sociodemographic information (from parents) and the presence of externalizing problems (from parents and teachers) were collected. The results suggest a 3-factor struct...

Abstract: This study attempts to measure discriminatory preferences using a field experiment in an established matrimonial market in India. Indian marriages exhibit strong marital segregation along caste lines, and grooms typically advertise their income in matrimonial advertisements. This combination yields an ideal opportunity to measure discriminatory preferences in terms of foregone financi...