The literature on transitions recommends that both the government and civil service should engage with profound societal problems requiring a fundamental socio-technical system change. We analyzed corpus of 100 publications to cluster transition tasks attributes government. These are set off against normative arguments Public Administration (PA) traditions legitimize action. Our analysis shows ...

Abstract This study was an attempt to investigate the effect of collaborative form-focused activities on grammar learning of elementary EFL learners. To this end, 58 adult male Iranian EFL learners at elementary level of proficiency in three classes of language institutes were chosen. They formed the three groups of the study. The grammar section of Cambridge Michigan Placement test was used to...

Abstract This study was an attempt to investigate the effect of collaborative form-focused activities on grammar learning of elementary EFL learners. To this end, 58 adult male Iranian EFL learners at elementary level of proficiency in three classes of language institutes were chosen. They formed the three groups of the study. The grammar section of Cambridge Michigan Placement test was used to...

Royal Roads University (RRU) is a special purpose university in British Columbia, Canada. Since 1995, this university has focused primarily on multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary graduate education for working professionals. Most programs are offered in a blended online and face-to-face format, which enables adult learners to continue in their professions while they pursue their studies. While...

Transformative drugs, defined as pharmaceuticals that are both innovative and have groundbreaking effects on patient care, are the "holy grail" of drug research and development. The sources of drug innovation are often debated, with pharmaceutical manufacturers arguing that high drug prices support innovative output from their sector. We studied the developmental histories of twenty-six drugs o...

Background and context: In order to integrate knowledge derived from the best available evidencebased practice, autonomous practitioners – including physiotherapists – need to challenge their routine ways of working. Masters-level education encourages critical and independent thinking and offers a means to acquire knowledge that has the potential to improve practice. Mezirow’s transformative le...

Systemic functional grammar constructs a grammar for the purpose of text analysis to investigate how grammar is used as a means of making meaning. Grammatical metaphor is one of the language phenomena introduced by Halliday (2004) in the framework of functional grammar. The present work focuses on the application of Halliday’s metafunctional framework in health texts of English newspapers. The ...

in arabic grammar, adjective is one of the five syntactic appositives and thus follows the features and rules of syntactic apposition. usually, there is a main principle on which a consensus of the authentic references is recorded, while the minor rules and secondary regulations might vary in different grammar books. this paper aims at representing ibn ya’ish ‘s viewpoints on adjective and subs...