Despite the blurred boundaries among languages and classroom evidence contrary to implementation of monolingual pedagogies, dominance policies for teaching foreign continues persist. To provide language learners with an appropriate bilingual pedagogy target one most challenging second (L2) skills, this study aimed explore role translanguaging (TP) in writing classes participants’ perceptions re...

BACKGROUND Social cohesion, the self-reported trust and connectedness between neighbors, may affect health behaviors via psychosocial mechanisms. PURPOSE Relations between individual perceptions of social cohesion and smoking cessation were examined among 397 Black treatment-seeking smokers. METHODS Continuation ratio logit models examined the relation of social cohesion and biochemically v...

Many coupling and cohesion measures have been introduced in various surveys to identify and measure the design complexity of object oriented systems.A large numbers of metrics have been built and proposed for measuring properties of object-oriented software such as size, inheritance, cohesion and coupling.The coupling is an important aspect in the evaluation of reusability and maintainability o...

The aim of this study was to examine the separate and combined relationships of neighborhood social norms and neighborhood social cohesion with smoking behavior in a cohort of adult Mexican smokers. Neighborhood anti-smoking norms were measured as the proportion of residents in each neighborhood who believed that society disapproves of smoking. Perceived social cohesion was measured using a 5-i...

Aspect-oriented system is a new emerging technique of software development that provides mechanism for implementing cross-cutting concerns. Quality assessment of important characteristics like cohesion, coupling, complexity, reusability, maintaibility, etc. is fairly unexplored for Aspect-oriented systems. Through this research work we have tried to find out the correlation between some of the ...

BACKGROUND Interaction in the form of cooperation, communication, and friendly competition theoretically precede the development of group cohesion, which often precedes adherence to health promotion programs. The purpose of this manuscript was to explore longitudinal relationships among dimensions of group cohesion and group-interaction variables to inform and improve group-based strategies wit...

The present study investigates the use of conjunction cohesion in writing on the basis of text analyses and global scoring of 70 compositions. It analyzes the contrast of scores in pretest and posttest and the overall uses of conjunction cohesion in compositions, and studies the relationship between the frequencies of conjunction cohesion and writing quality. The research result reveals that th...

language, science and politics go together and learning these genres is to learn a language created for codifying, extending and transmitting scientific and political knowledge. grammatical metaphor is divided into two broad areas: ideational and interpersonal.this paper focuses on the first type i.e. ideational grammatical metaphor (igm), which includes process types and nominalization.  the m...

The social cohesion of a group, as measured by patterns of network ties, increases with the level of redundancy of interconnections of its members. We will see that the minimal number k of independent paths that connect every pair of actors in a group, the higher the cohesion. The cohesiveness of a group is also measured by the extent to which it is not disconnected by removal of 1, 2, 3,..., n...