Insufficient academic preparation is a major barrier to student success in higher education in the United States; one nationwide study found that 75% of students entering community colleges need remedial education in at least one subject to meet prerequisites for college credit courses. 1 The cost of preparing these students for college-level work is extremely high, both to the educational inst...

We consider the enforcement powers of program monitors, which intercept security-sensitive actions of a target application at run time and take remedial steps whenever the target attempts to execute a potentially dangerous action. A common belief in the security community is that program monitors, regardless of the remedial steps available to them when detecting violations, can only enforce saf...

This study investigated the remedial value of blushing in the context of clear-cut predicaments. Besides testing the effects of displaying a blush on a neutral expression, we investigated whether blushing increased the remedial properties of shameful and embarrassed expressions. After reading a vignette describing either a transgression (Experiment 1; N = 66) or a mishap (Experiment 2; N = 62),...

In England we have not this passion for coining terms, displayed by our colleagues on the Continent, and it is unlikely that we shall adopt this new word. We might use " elocution " if it were not that we are apt to associate " recitation " (and what recitation !) with that word. The term " Speech Training," which many prefer as a description of our profession, may be thought to cover too wide ...

Postsecondary remediation is a controversial topic. On one hand, it fills an important and sizeable niche in higher education. On the other hand, critics argue that it wastes tax dollars, diminishes academic standards, and demoralizes faculty. Yet, despite the ongoing debate, few comprehensive, large-scale, multi-institutional evaluations of remedial programs have been published in recent memor...

background: activity based costing (abc) is one of the new methods began appearing as a costing methodol­ogy in the 1990's. it calculates cost price by determining the usage of resources. in this study, abc method was used for calculating cost price of remedial services in hospitals. methods: to apply abc method, shahid faghihi hospital was selected. first, hospital units were divided into thre...

We investigated the extent to which cognitive and noncognitive skills accounted for the measured links between participation in preschool intervention and high school completion, highest grade completed, and incarceration history in early adulthood. Using data from the Chicago Longitudinal Study, an on-going 20-year investigation of the effects of the school-based Child-Parent Center early inte...

To consider the total exposure to indoor radon and thoron, a concept of equivalent radon concentration for thoron is introduced, defined as the radon concentration that delivers the same annual effective dose as that resulting from the thoron concentration. The total indoor exposure to radon and thoron is then the sum of the radon concentration and the equivalent radon concentration for thoron....

An integral component in the development of media-specific values for the ecological risk assessment of chemicals is the derivation of safe levels of exposure for wildlife. Although the derivation and subsequent application of these values can be used for screening purposes, there is a need to identify the threshold for effects when making remedial decisions during site-specific assessments. Me...