Although grades are the most ubiquitous currency of educational measurement around the globe, their meaning, particularly in understudied settings as in Iran, is still shrouded in mystery. The purpose of this study was to investigate EFL teachers’ class grades by focusing on the less verbalized aspects of grading to see what a grade means. Five Iranian English language teachers working ...

Collaboration between the private and public sectors has produced mixed results. Some initiatives seem better suited to this model. For example, partnerships in national defense and space exploration have produced benefits to both sectors, although not without some controversy. Conversely, with issues such as education and health, the road to success has been much rockier. As an honest broker w...

Subjective language contains information about private states. The goal of subjective language identification is to identify that a private state is expressed, without considering its polarity or specific emotion. A component of word meaning, "Personal Sense", has clear potential in the field of subjective language identification, as it reflects a meaning of words in terms of unique personal ex...

PURPOSE To evaluate the personal and professional characteristics associated with career satisfaction and burnout among US oncologists. METHODS Between October 2012 and March 2013, the American Society of Clinical Oncology conducted a survey of US oncologists evaluating burnout and career satisfaction. The survey sample included equal numbers of men and women and represented all career stages...

Medicalisation, healthicisation and 'personal' strategies have been identified as the main factors contributing to the socially mediated experience of sleep and sleep disorders in modern societies. Medicalisation and healthicisation are publicly available discourses. But the degree to which apparently 'personal' strategies for managing sleep are presented in popular media has been underestimate...

Personal information anonymity concerns anonymizing information that identifies individuals, in contrast to anonymizing activities such as downloading copyrighted items on the Internet. It may refer to encrypting personal data, generalization and suppression as in k-anonymization, ‘untraceability’ or ‘unidentifiability’ of identity in the network, etc. A common notion is hiding the “identities”...

introduction: personal health record is an individual–oriented system that is planned for people to access their health information that using other means of support such as knowledge databases to help people to have more active role in their health considering that physicians and nurses have a basic role in its completing, educating and using of this tools, this study was conducted to evaluate...