Little is known of nurses' self-concept in light of their professional identity or as working adults. This article explores the development and rigorous testing of a new self-concept instrument designed specifically for nurses. The new measure is based on the self-concept measurement theory of Shavelson, Hubner, and Stanton. An expert panel was used to critique and aid refinement of the measure...

conclusions the current study showed significant association between the rosenberg self-esteem test results and smoking, and illegal drug abuse like heroin, pills, alcohol, nas, and other substances. therefore, increasing self-esteem is essential for preventing the adolescents’ emotional and behavioral disorders. this fact could guide us to the new approaches for smoking and drug-abuse preventi...

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the purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of 2 concept map (cm) learning strategies on iranian efl learners’ reading comprehension ability and learner autonomy. to this end, 60 iranian efl learners at the preintermediate level of language proficiency were randomly assigned to 2 groups. both groups received an 8-week instruction: one through teacher-constructed and the other throug...

In this contribution, we will recall graded fuzzy rules introduced in [6] and explain the difference from the classical fuzzy rules. Moreover, properties of formulae, which are used to formalize the graded fuzzy rules, will be analyzed.

This paper presents a new framework for dealing with two main types of concept drift (sudden and gradual) in labeled data with decision attribute. The learning examples are processed instance by instance. This new framework, called Online Batch Weighted Ensemble, introduces element of incremental processing into a block-based ensemble of classi ers. Its performance was evaluated experimentally ...