Abstract Various stakeholders, such as policymakers and educators, require diagnostic feedback actionable test results. One particular context in which fine-grained results are of utmost importance is English language proficiency (ELP) assessments they used for critical decisions students. Diagnostic classification models (DCMs) afford finer levels to improve learning outcomes. This study part ...

Culture has an impact on shaping traditional and egalitarian attitudes that are essential factors affecting parenting child outcomes. Although in the literature some scales focus these about parenthood, none of them appropriate for Turkish cultural context. Thus, it is thought scale measuring context vital proper evaluation relationship between other constructs. Therefore, main aim current stud...

gholamreza khoshfar mahbobeh ilvari date of receive: 2014/12/9date of accept: 2015/5/11abstractthe present study was conducted to identify the relationship between religiosity and marital adjustment. since religion influences family relationships and regarding the fact that in the present conditions the strength of religious values in the family is one of the goals of our islamic society, condu...

These notes survey some basic results in toric varieties over a field F , with examples and applications. A computer algebra package (written by the author) is described which deals with both affine and projective toric varieties in any number of dimensions (written in both MAGMA [MAGMA] and GAP [GAP]). Among other things, the package implements the desingularization procedure, constructs some ...

This paper outlines the linguistic semantic commitments underlying an application which automatically constructs depictions of verbal spatial descriptions. Our approach draws on the ideational view of linguistic semantics developed by Ronald Langacker in his theory of Cognitive Grammar, and the conceptual representation of physical objects from the two-level semantics of Bierwisch and Lang. In ...

Purpose Body awareness and interoceptive awareness are closely related constructs proposed to mediate the health benefits of mind-body therapies, e.g. mindfulness meditation, yoga, Tai Chi, Feldenkrais and others. By integrating psychological and neuroscientific concepts with experiential phenomenology and by distinguishing multiple dimensions, contradictory construct interpretations are clarif...