deducing what a paper is about, titles are considered as the most important determinant of how many people will read the article. therefore, studying the use of different syntactic structures and their rhetorical functions in titles is of great significance. the current study was set to investigate these structures used in research article titles in three disciplines of applied linguistics, den...

This article highlights the importance of the concepts of media literacy, and digital and informational literacy to understand the multimodal meaning of multiliteracies and their interfaces. An analogy with Babel is used to understand the different ways in which this concept articulates the linguistic, visual, audio, spatial, and gestural dimensions in digital culture. In this framework, the qu...

In this paper we present the analysis of the BMAP/GI/1 phase dependent vacation model with decrementing-K service discipline. The exhaustive discipline is a special case of the decrementing-K discipline, where K = ∞. The generalization of the service discipline independent expressions of the vacation model [7] for phase dependent vacation enables the treatment of the BMAP/GI/1 queue as special ...

In his article "Academic Discourse and Narratives of Literacy as 'Equipment for Living'" Kris Rutten discusses practices of academic discourse and argues that students entering higher education have to become part of a specific community of institutional discourse. Rutten claims that narratives of and about literacy — narratives that revolve around issues dealing with language and the acquisiti...

OBJECTIVE We examined the influence of a broad spectrum of life experiences on longitudinal cognitive trajectories in a demographically diverse sample of older adults. METHOD Participants were 333 educationally, ethnically, and cognitively diverse older adults enrolled in a longitudinal aging study. Mixed-effects regression was used to measure baseline status in episodic memory, executive fun...

OBJECTIVES Health literacy is commonly associated with many of the antecedents of health disparities. Yet the precise nature of the relationship between health literacy and disparities remains unclear. A systematic review was conducted to better understand in how far the relationship between health literacy and health disparities has been systematically studied and which potential relationships...

BACKGROUND Limited health literacy is known to impact on medication adherence, hospital readmission and potentially poorer health outcomes. The literature on the health literacy of those with musculoskeletal conditions suggests greater functional limitations and increased pain levels. There are a number of measures of health literacy. One that specifically relates to musculoskeletal complaints ...

Introduction. This paper provides a contribution to understandings of information literacy regarding context and transferability of information practices. Specifically, the paper analyses the subset of information practices in situations of student protests and addresses issues of transfer of information literacy practice from a highly formal landscape to a highly non-formal and unstructured la...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate health literacy levels of patients in Almaty City, Kazakhstan and to identify socio-demographics and socio-economic factors related to their health literacy. METHODS An international survey instrument HLS-EU-Q developed by the European Health Literacy Consortium was used in a cross-sectional study with 1000 citizens in the Almaty City at the age of 18 a...

Victoria Raish is a PhD Student in the College of Education and Emily Rimland is Sally W. Kalin Librarian for Learning Innovations at The Pennsylvania State University; e-mail: [email protected], erimland@psu. edu. © 2016 Victoria Raish and Emily Rimland, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. Digital badges are an educational innovation used to mea...