the purpose of the present study was to compare writing high achievers and low achievers tefl (teaching english as foreign language) learners’ writing self-beliefs. subjects, based on their officially recorded scores on the writing course, were assigned in two 22-member groups of high and low achievers. the adapted english version of mills’ and péron’s (2008) questionnaire and the foreign langu...

Spyke Viewer is an open source application designed to help researchers analyze data from electrophysiological recordings or neural simulations. It provides a graphical data browser and supports finding and selecting relevant subsets of the data. Users can interact with the selected data using an integrated Python console or plugins. Spyke Viewer includes plugins for several common visualizatio...

An integrated neuromusculoskeletal (NMS) modeling tool has been developed to facilitate the study of the control of movement in humans and animals. Blocks representing the skeletal linkage, sensors, muscles, and neural controllers are developed using separate software tools and integrated in the powerful simulation environment of Simulink (Mathworks Inc., USA). Musculoskeletal Modeling in Simul...

The editors of Pain and Therapy would like to make the following amend to the Acknowledgements section of the abovementioned paper. The disclosure statement should read as follows: ‘‘No funding or sponsorship was received for this study. For preparation of this article, medical writing assistance was provided by Latoya M. Mitchell, Ph.D., of Grifols. Dr. Tachdjian is the guarantor for this arti...

Background: To examine the Healthy Fitness Zone (pass/fail) criterionreferenced reliability (CRR) and equivalency (CRE) of the 1-mile run/walk (MRW) and Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run (PACER) in adolescents (13 to 18 years). Methods: Seventy-six girls and 165 boys were randomly assigned to complete 2 trials of each test. Results: CRR for the boys on the MRW (Pa = 77%, κq = 0.5...

Writing is a way for students to develop and use their critical thinking skills as well as to demonstrate learning. The links below provide ways that writing can be used both informally and formally throughout the college curriculum and include specific methods for handling all aspects of the writing process from assignment-making to responding and grading. The final link for faculty is a mega-...