it is well documented that language learning success or failure is influenced by the affective side of the learner. self-efficacy and anxiety are among the affective factors influencing language learning. this study first explores the relationship between efl learners' self-efficacy in reading comprehension and their reading anxiety. secondly, it explores the relationship between efl learners' ...

OBJECTIVE General practitioners (GPs) are crucial in medical healthcare, but there is currently a shortage of GPs in Sweden and elsewhere. Recruitment of GPs from abroad is essential, but foreign-born physicians face difficulties at work that may be related to turnover intention, i.e. wanting to quit one's job. The study aims to explore the reasons to why foreign-born GPs may intend to quit the...

Along the history, relations between Iran and Russia always faced with great changes and transitions and always, the foundation of these relations have been on the base of political, security and military and sometimes economical affairs. Iran and its people have special identity elements like: Persian language, Shiite Islamism, nationalism, regional hegemonies, anti-foreignism and etc, that so...

We consider the problem of nding statistically unusual subgroups in a multi-relation database, and extend previous work on singlerelation subgroup discovery. We give a precise de nition of the multirelation subgroup discovery task, propose a speci c form of declarative bias based on foreign links as a means of specifying the hypothesis space, and show how propositional evaluation functions can ...

The Israeli government borrows internally and externally, and the Bank of Israel invests the foreign exchanges in various currencies. The borrowing interest rate is generally higher than the lending rate. In addition, the reserves are invested in relatively short-maturity safe assets, while borrowing is for relatively long maturities. This paper studies the structure of the government’s externa...