The recently introduced national curriculum for the ® rst stage of Dutch secondary education requires not only a change in educational content but also a change in educational processes. The knowledge students acquire is expected to be related to everyday life, and tobe meaningfully embedded in society. Furthermore, the student is expected to use social and cognitive strategies such as research...

We use the Web today for a myriad purposes, from buying a plane ticket to browsing an ancient manuscript, from looking up a recipe to watching a TV program. And more. Besides these “proper” uses, there are also less obvious, more indirect ways of exploiting the potential of the Web. For language researchers, the Web is also an enormous collection of (mainly) textual materials which make it poss...

This research sought to examine the mediating role of psychological capital in the relationship between authentic leadership and work engagement among school principals and teachers. The study had a descriptive, correlational design. The statistical population of the study was comprised of all school principals and teachers in Aleshtar (located in Lorestan Province) in school year 2016-17 from ...

Rice fermented with the mold Monascus purpureus, also known as the red yeast rice (RYR) used in traditional Chinese medicine, contains pharmacologically important monacolins. The prescription statin, lovastatin, is identical to monacolin K, and there is a suspicion of spiking RYR products with lovastatin. Profiling authentic and raw RYR samples has the potential to distinguish the spiked from n...

Methods to identify Pinelliae Tuber and Arisaematis Rhizoma are required because of frequent reciprocal substitution between these two herbal medicines and the existence of several closely related plant materials. As a result of the morphological similarity of dried tubers, correct discrimination of authentic herbal medicines is difficult by conventional methods. Therefore, we analyzed DNA barc...

  The Purpose of this study is Survey The effect of the three components of authentic leadership, Self-awareness, Self-regulation and Behavior on Implementation of Talent Management process. The research is applied and survey was conducted in sample of 270 of force staff in the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company; for data gathering a questionnaire was used after reliability and...

Much of speech therapy involves the clinician guiding the therapeutic process (e.g., presenting stimuli and eliciting client responses). However, this Brief Communication describes a different approach to speech therapy delivery. Clinicians at Waldo County General Hospital (WCGH) use high definition audio and video to engage clients in telepractice using interactive web-based virtual environmen...

The ongoing problems in business leadership over the past five years have underscored the need for a new kind of leader in the twenty-first century: the authentic leader. Author Bill George, a Harvard Business School professor and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, and his colleagues, conducted the largest leadership development study ever undertaken. They interviewed 125 business leader...