recourse to a purported ideal of societal homogeneity has become common in the context of the refugee reception crisis – not only in japan, as leppold et al report, but also throughout europe. calls for societal homogeneity in europe originate from populist movements as well as from some governments. often, they go along with reduced social support for refugees and asylum seekers, for example i...

The purpose of the present study was to identify any significant relationship between critical thinking ability, L2 vocabulary knowledge, and L2 vocabulary learning strategies of Iranian EFL learners. To this aim, the productive vocabulary levels test was administered to measure the learner’s L2 vocabulary knowledge and observe homogeneity in terms of vocabulary knowledge. At the second stage, ...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether there is a common sequence of adoption of electronic health record (EHR) functions among US hospitals, identify differences by hospital type, and assess the impact of meaningful use. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using 2008 American Hospital Association (AHA) Information Technology (IT) Supplement data, we calculate adoption rates of individual EHR functions, along with L...