This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of "cognitive ability" like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life. Achievement tests miss, or perhaps more accurately, do not adequately capture, soft skills-personality traits, goals, motivation...

March-April 2001 more than 27% of Americans’ beverage consumption. In 1997, Americans spent more than $54 billion to buy 14 billion gallons of soft drinks. Today Americans consume more than 56 gallons per year, or more than one-anda-half 12 ounce cans per day for every man, woman, and child. Dentists are becoming increasingly concerned that over-consumption of soft drinks may result in greater ...

Dental attachments, including dental implant when not in use can cause biological complications intraorally like soreness of lips, the floor mouth, tongue, or cheeks. The article describes an appliance designed for patients experiencing these complications. described soft-hard tissue guard is newly and to be worn by patient attachments are retaining a prosthesis. aim this describe process fabri...

Timetabling problems often consists from various requirements which can not be satisfied together [11]. Unsatisfiable requirements can be handled within optimization criteria as soft constraints. Such soft constraints may not be satisfied if there are some contradictions. The remaining hard constraints must be still satisfied. The set of hard and soft constraints can be naturally expressed usin...