AIM This paper reports on regulated (or licensed) care providers' understanding and perceptions of feedback reports in a sample of Canadian long-term care settings using a cross-sectional survey design. BACKGROUND Audit with feedback quality improvement studies have seldom targeted front-line providers in long-term care to receive feedback information. METHODS Feedback reports were delivere...

during the last recent decades, restructuring in the electricity industry has been considered as an economical policy. consequently, it was able to increase private investment, competition, efficiency, and productivity. the purpose of restructuring electricity industry is to change electricity industry organization, in order to omit monopoly and increase competition. recognition of restructurin...

the benefits of textual input enhancement in the acquisition of linguistic forms have produced mixed results in sla literature. the present study investigates the effects of textual enhancement on adult foreign language intake of two english linguistic forms-subjunctive mood and inversion structures-to explore the role of the type of linguistic items in input enhancement studies. it also invest...

The selective localization of protein synthetic machinery at postsynaptic sites makes it possible for the synthesis of particular proteins to be regulated by synaptic signals. Here we consider how the structure of the machinery constrains synthetic capacity and the evidence that mRNA translation is locally controlled by synaptic signals. Since the discovery of protein synthetic machinery at syn...

With increasing concerns of climate change, renewable resources such as photovoltaic (PV) have gained popularity a means energy generation. The smooth integration in power system operations is enabled by accurate forecasting mechanisms that address their inherent intermittency and variability. This paper proposes probabilistic framework to predict short-term PV output taking into account the un...

With the immense increase in processing data during scaling down of semiconductor devices by Moore's Law, it is urgent need to use analytics meet state art performance both manufacturing and device compact modeling. In particular, managing fabrication cost promptly providing models, especially for new or emerging devices, challenging. To ease out these issues, we propose a unified, general-purp...

Aging refers to the processes by which the bioavailability/toxicity, isotopic exchangeability, and extractability of metals added to soils decline overtime. We studied the characteristics of the aging process in copper (Cu) added to soils and the factors that affect this process. Then we developed a semi-mechanistic model to predict the lability of Cu during the aging process with descriptions ...