The rich and still expanding literature on TBLT is helping to mature both its theoretical conceptualization and practical implementation in foreign and second language education. Similarly, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has grown as a field, with the use and integration of technology in the classroom continuing to increase and will continue to play an important role in this maturat...

introduction: risk is an essential component in the production and sale of agricultural products. due to the nature of agricultural products, the people who act in this area including farmers and businesspersons encounter unpredictable fluctuations of prices. on the other hand, the firms that process agricultural products also face fluctuation of price of agricultural inputs. given that the can...

graphs and e-mailed them along with a brief history to a single e-mail address at a monitored server. The e-mails were then distributed to the on-call consulting dermatologists. More than 40 military dermatologists answered the consults on a rotating basis in a “team call” approach. The percentage of total consults and diagnostic agreement between primary care provider and dermatologist were ca...

OBJECTIVES In the Netherlands, surgery for lung cancer is traditionally performed in low-volume hospitals. To assess the need for centralization, we examined early outcome measures and compared results between hospitals and with other European countries. METHODS Data on patient, tumour and treatment characteristics were retrieved from the Netherlands Cancer Registry. Results were tabulated fo...

walnut is one of the important products in kerman province and baft town is the main area of ‎walnut orchards. so the technical, allocative and economical efficiency of walnut farmers computed ‎assign the degree of farmer’s success in the optimum allocation of their resources. at first the ‎proper production function was estimated, and then stochastic frontier production and technical, ‎efficie...

BACKGROUND Unnecessary ambulance use has become a socioeconomic problem in Japan. We investigated the possible relations between socioeconomic factors and medically unnecessary ambulance calls, and we estimated the incremental demand for unnecessary ambulance use produced by socioeconomic factors. METHODS We conducted a self-administered questionnaire-based survey targeting residents of Yokoh...