This study introduces the Constructed Response Analysis Tool (CRAT), a freely available tool to automatically assess student responses in online tutoring systems. The study tests CRAT on a dataset of chemistry responses collected in the ChemVLab+. The findings indicate that CRAT can differentiate and classify student responses based on semantic overlap with student input and indices related to ...

Lakoff (1975), a pioneering study of women’s language, suggested a tendency for women to use more of hedges and intensifiers. Subsequent studies still attract some opposing (Fahy, 2002; Nemati and Bayer, 2007) or reinforcing (Bradac et al., 1995; Navalainen, 2008) views. This paper shows how a key word analysis offers an empirical evidence on the use of intensifying adverbs in male and female s...

This text provides a comprehensive framework for providing culturally competent nursing care to individuals, families, groups, communities and institutions. We begin with a synthesis of transcultural theories, models, and research studies. It is our intent to provide transcultural knowledge that can be useful in nursing care. The text actually began in 1989 as a collegial effort by novice trans...

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We report a case of cryptococcosis due to C. gattii which appears to have been acquired in the Puget Sound region, Washington State. Genotyping confirmed identity to the predominant Vancouver Island genotype. This is the first documented case of human disease by the major Vancouver Island emergence strain acquired within the United States.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the intra-familial relationships between parental reports of feeding practices used with siblings in the same family, and to evaluate whether differences in feeding practices are related to differences in siblings' eating behaviours. Eighty parents of two sibling children completed measures assessing their feeding practices and child eating behaviour...

Based on the Chinese IPO book building mechanism as the background, the paper chooses the market-oriented period (from November,2010 to April,2012) of the IPOs as the samples, and studies the relationship between the collusive behavior, institutional investors’ bidding behavior and underwriters’ pricing strategy(as well as the post-IPO performance). The results show that: Firstly, in the case o...