This study aimed at identifying the most frequent test-taking strategies used by successful Iranian male and female university entrance exam EFL applicants. To this end, 150 English major male and female freshman students who got admission to three reputable state universities of Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran were selected conveniently and purposively. The model used in this study was developed b...

introduction: pulmonary involvement secondary to systemic sclerosis (ssc) is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in ssc patients. we designed this study to determine the correlation of important lung function parameters with lung high resolution ct (hrct) scan findings.materials and methods: thirty–two consecutive diffuse ssc patients with pulmonary fibrosis were enrolled in this cross-s...

Si le testing adaptatif par ordinateur (TAO) possède des avantages reconnus depuis plusieurs décennies, il recèle également quelques inconvénients. Par exemple, tel que l’a déjà souligné Wainer (2000, p. xxiii), ne serait pas très approprié d’utiliser la stratégie du TAO pour les tests à enjeux critiques (high stake tests) comme examens. De même, puisque nombre d’items administrés selon est lim...

Surface strain rate is best observed by fitting a strain-rate ellipsoid to the measured movement of a stake network,or other collection of surface features, using a least-squares procedure. Error of the resulting fit varies as (LAt/7T)~ , where L is the stake separation, At is the time period between initial and final stake survey, and n is the number of stakes in the network. This relation sug...

Decentralized cryptocurrencies have pushed deployments of distributed consensus to more stringent environments than ever before. Most existing protocols rely on proofs-of-work which require expensive computational puzzles to enforce, imprecisely speaking, “one vote per unit of computation”. The enormous amount of energy wasted by these protocols has been a topic of central debate, and well-know...

Despite the repeatedly raised criticism that findings in economic games are specific to situations involving trivial incentives, most studies that have examined the stake-size effect have failed to find a strong effect. Using three prisoner's dilemma experiments, involving 479 non-student residents of suburban Tokyo and 162 students, we show here that stake size strongly affects a player's coop...

The new era we face is defining and achieving useful results for all stakeholders: including both internal and external partners. And we must prove the value we add in terms of empirical data about what we deliver, what it accomplished, and what value it added for all stake-holders (not just the value it added to our team, our department, or our organization, but to the entire system of interna...