background: reading is known as one of the most important learning tools. research results consistently have shown that even a mild hearing impairment could affect the reading skills. due to the reported differences in reading comprehension skills between hearing impaired students and their normal hearing peers, this research was conducted to compare the differences between the two groups. the ...

Commendations: · The school has made considerable progress since the previous Teaching and Learning Audit particularly in the domains of Analysis and Discussion of Data and An Expert Teaching Team. · The involvement and contribution of the significant numbers of volunteers is exceptional. Volunteers assist teachers to differentiate their pedagogy for individual students or small groups within c...

As model transformations are increasingly used in model-driven engineering, the dependability of model transformation systems becomes crucial to model-driven development deliverables. As any other software, model transformations can contain design faults, be used in inappropriate ways, or may be affected by problems arising in the transformation execution environment at run-time. We propose in ...

A t a conference held in January 2005, Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard University, hypothesized that a major reason for the paucity of women mathematicians among the tenured faculty of elite research universities in the USA might be sex-based differences in “intrinsic aptitude” for mathematics, especially at the very high end of the distribution [36]. This commonly held belief is la...

PURPOSE Emotional development, an important component of nascent professional competence, is likely to be shaped by specific formative experiences. This study sought to identify and gauge the impact of highly evocative experiences occurring during medical school. METHOD A 34-item list of candidate formative experiences was developed through focus group meetings of "colleges program"-affiliate...