abstractthe present study investigated the effect of blended online and face-to-face instruction on the use of reading strategies by iranian efl learners. out of 100 pre-selected learners, 60 homogeneous participants were identified as intermediate, according to their scores on the oxford placement test. the participants were assigned to experimental (n=30) and control (n=30) groups. then, a pr...

nowadays computers are increasingly being incorporated into school curriculums and serious games are occupying the educational games markets. this article addressed the integration of serious games as tools for learning and teaching english in iranian schools to zero-beginner students. an experiment was concluded using computer assisted language learning (call) to investigate the effectiveness ...

BACKGROUND In the past few decades many countries have worked to increase the number of women delivering in facilities, with the goal of improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes. The purpose of this study is to explore the current situation of facility deliveries in Africa and Asia to understand where and with whom women deliver. Furthermore, we aim to test potential drivers of facility ...

Background Despite significant progress in diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis over the past 2 decades, millions of patients with tuberculosis go unreported every year. The patient-pathway analysis (PPA) is designed to assess the alignment between tuberculosis care-seeking patterns and the availability of tuberculosis services. The PPA can help programs understand where they might find the ...

Poverty is still one of the forefront issues in developing countries. It could hamper achievement ofsustainable development goals, thereby triggering a recurring call on government's role mitigatingpoverty. This paper contributed to debate sectoral government spending under thefiscal decentralization policy combat poverty. Using case study South Kalimantan Province, weemployed spatial panel dat...

We introduce a problem that is a common generalization of the uncapacitated facility location and minimum latency (ML) problems, where facilities need to be opened to serve clients and also need to be sequentially activated before they can provide service. Formally, we are given a set F of n facilities with facility-opening costs fi, a set D of m clients, connection costs cij specifying the cos...

BACKGROUND With health care shifting away from the traditional sick care model, many hospitals are integrating fitness facilities and programs into their clinical services in order to support health promotion and disease prevention at the community level. Through a series of focus groups, the present study assessed characteristics of hospital-affiliated integrated facilities located in Northeas...

Since the industrial revolution the world has seen an ever increasing proliferation of production facilities and with it a steady increase in workplace accidents and fatalities. The field of safety management was borne out of the need to curtail the extremely high human and commercial costs of these incidents. Not surprisingly in the dawn of the industrial age, the initial port of call was engi...

depth. The well informed patient and relative will probably be happier and less likely to call on NHS facilities unnecessarily. While acute illness is usually dealt with effectively and promptly, the doubts and bewilderment accompanying the diagnosis of a prolonged or lifelong illness deserve and demand our response. Money may be needed. for rooms, an information person, and an administrator/we...