The supervision of undergraduate student dissertations is an area in need of research. Although some studies have already addressed this, these are primarily based on academic staff responses. This study contributes to knowledge by gathering the responses of students and focusing on formative electronic assessment. Data was collected using a student focus group and student questionnaire. The fi...

The tense realization of reporting verbs in each literature review (LR) 1is, in a sense, individualistic and particular to each situation. In spite of this, LRs follow certain patterns shared by the peers and the audiences of the writer, since one of the writer’s primary goals in writing a dissertation LR is to convey his mental imagery to his peers and his audiences. This article shows that te...

abstractthe study of linguistic devices variously referred to as stance expressions is one of the best means by which the relationship between the writer, the reader, and propositional meaning could be examined. this paper looks at a particular structural group of lexical bundles encoding stance expressions. these are bundles starting with an anticipatory it followed by is, a predicative adject...

and ArborText. VT funded the development of a Document Type Definition (DTD) for dissertations and theses. The project continued at VT, with collaboration from the Coalition for Networked Information, the Council of Graduate Schools, and UMI, among others. Since 1994, many VT students have submitted their dissertations and theses in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). As of January 1997, VT...

The purpose of this study, which is a case study based on the qualitative research model, to examine appropriateness doctoral dissertation abstracts written between 2010 and 2017. For purpose, 3463 abstracts, in education, were accessed through website National Thesis Center Turkey by using "advanced search" option predefined criteria. No sampling method was used research, all dissertations fie...

This descriptive, retrospective documental study was performed with the objective to analyze the dissertations produced in the Graduate and Master's in Nursing Program at Universidade Federal do Paraná, considering the adjustment of its lines of research. To do this, a critical reading was performed of the abstracts and thematic analysis was used to look at the dissertations and their inclusion...

Since 1997 the CHICO research Group has been one of the main promoters of HCI at the Castilla-La Mancha University (UCLM) and in Spain. This Group is leading the research and teaching of HCI in the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (ESI in the Spanish acronym) at this University. Now, with the aim of defining the academic offer adapting it to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA i...

6 ORIGINAL PAPERS 7 ABBREVIATIONS 8 INTRODUCTION 9 Presentation 9 History 11 Cochlear anatomy 12 Cochlear physiology 14 Cochlear innervation 16 The sensory auditory systems 19 The spiral ganglion 21 Specific characteristics of the human spiral ganglion 23 Tight and gap junctions 27 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDIES 29 MATERIAL AND METHODS 30 RESULTS 36 Preservation 36 Light microscopic studies and TEM ...

The medial preoptic nucleus (MPN) of the hypothalamus plays a major role in many functions involved in maintaining bodily homeostasis, such as thermoregulation and osmoregulation, as well as in the control of complex behaviours, e.g. sexual behaviour. A fundamental basis for the control and execution of these functions is the synaptic communication between neurons of the MPN. However, the funct...