BACKGROUND Longitudinal studies allow us to identify, which specific maths skills are weak in young children, and whether there is a continuing weakness in these areas throughout their school years. AIMS This 2-year study investigated whether certain socio-demographic variables affect early mathematical competency in children aged 5-7 years. SAMPLE A randomly selected sample of 127 students...

The present study aimed at analyzing whether the engineering students with high and low achievement motivation differed from each other in personality or not? Total sample of 559 (305 boys and 254 girls) engineering students was taken from different engineering colleges of Punjab. This study focused at investigating how big five factors of personality i.e. Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to...

In advanced melanoma of the limbs with in-transit metastasis, melphalan with isolated limb perfusion (M-ILP) produces around 50% complete remissions (CR). The combination of melphalan with tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNFalpha) and interferon-gamma (IFNgamma) in isolated limb perfusion (TIM-ILP) gives around 80% CR. A prospective randomised phase II study compared 32 patients who received TIM-...

It is well known by Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) practioners that ILP systems usually take a long time to find valuable models (theories). The problem is specially critical for large datasets, preventing ILP systems to scale up to larger applications. One approach to reduce the execution time has been the parallelization of ILP systems. In this paper we overview the state-of-the-art on par...

abstract background: osteoid osteoma is a benign bony neoplasm and its classic treatment is surgery. in the r ecent decades percutaneous laser therapy was suggested to be replaced by surgery. in this study we have reviewed the results of the first applications of interstitial laser photocoagulation (ilp) for treatment of osteoid osteoma in iranian patients. materials and methods: in this case s...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have suggested that when reading texts, lower achievers are more sensitive than their stronger counterparts to surface-level cues, such as graphic illustrations, and that even when uninformative, such concrete supplements tend to raise the text's subjective comprehensibility. AIMS We examined how being led astray by uninformative concrete supplements in expository ...

Second or foreign language (L2) learners’ development of interlanguage pragmatic (ILP) competence to understand and properly interpret utterances under certain social and cultural circumstances plays a pivotal role in the achievement of communicative competence. The current study was designed to explore the effects of synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) and asynchronous com...

Relative performance feedback (RPF) has often been shown to improve effort and in the workplace educational settings. Yet, many studies also document substantial negative effects of RPF, particular for low-achievers. We study a novel type RPF designed overcome these on low-achievers by scoring individual improvements . With sample 400 children, we conduct class-wise randomized-controlled trial ...