PURPOSE Vietnamese children's performance on language-based processing tasks of fast-mapping (FM) word-learning and dynamic assessment (DA) word- and rule-learning tasks were investigated. METHOD Twenty-one first- and second-generation Vietnamese preschool children participated in this study. All children were enrolled in 2 Head Start programs in a large city in the Midwest. All children had ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE We compared the hemoglobin-maintaining effects between continuous erythropoietin receptor activator (CERA) and darbepoetin-α (DA) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) during the 3 months before dialysis initiation. METHODS This study was conducted with 37 CERA-administered patients and 26 DA-administered patients who had initiated dialysis at a participating ...

Abstract This study aimed to integrate self-regulation strategies into dynamic assessment procedures of listening comprehension in an EFL setting and examine the possibility raising students’ skills. In addition, it explored enhancing learners’ potential scores through applying activities as a tool for motivating learners while being assessed. The procedure was based on Vygotsky’s notion zone p...

the critical role and effect of teacher assessment in elt has been ratified by researchers among whom are darling-hammond (2000); knox (2002); bailey (2006); davison & cummins (2007); and blum (2009).taking this issue into account, this exploratory study seeks to investigate the underlying criteria of both recruiting and assessing in-service efl teachers in private language institutes of ir...

1,3-Butadiene (BD) is an environmental and occupational toxicant classified as a human carcinogen. It is oxidized by cytochrome P450 monooxygenases to 1,2-epoxy-3-butene (EB), which alkylates DNA. BD exposures lead to large numbers of mutations at A:T base pairs even though alkylation of guanines is more prevalent, suggesting that one or more adenine adducts of BD play a role in BD-mediated gen...

PURPOSE To assess hemoglobin (Hb) outcomes and fatigue-related quality-of-life (QoL) (electronic assessment) in patients with solid tumors and symptomatic chemotherapy-induced anemia receiving cytotoxic chemotherapy and darbepoetin alfa (DA) or another erythropoiesis-stimulating agent according to European indication. METHODS eAQUA was a Phase IV prospective observational study. The primary o...

For a finite abelian group G and a finite subset A ⊆ Z, the Davenport constant of G with weight A, denoted by DA(G), is defined to be the smallest positive integer k such that for any sequence (x1, . . . , xk) of k elements in G there exists a non-empty subsequence (xj1 , . . . , xjr) and a1, . . . , ar ∈ A such that ∑r i=1 ai xji = 0. To avoid trivial cases, one assumes that the weight set A d...

Discriminant analysis DA is used for the measurement of estimates of a discriminant function by minimizing their group misclassifications to predict group membership of newly sampled data. A major source of misclassification in DA is due to the overlapping of groups. The uncertainty in the input variables and model parameters needs to be properly characterized in decision making. This study com...

da is a memory of iraqi war against iran. this narration of war is a representation of young girl life that had a significant role in her own time. this book challenges masculinity of war and passes out gender as a limitation. the important narration of war, mentioned in da, has been associated with 150 republication and these elements confirm research on da. this article tries to attempts to a...

Twelve providers (eight institutions) participating in a Gender and Sex Diversity Fertility Working Group completed a survey assessing their hospital's transgender, disorders/differences of sex development (DSD), and fertility healthcare teams. Participants also prioritized the development of a: (1) Provider Assessment Tool (questionnaire assessing knowledge/feelings about future fertility), or...