The purpose of this study was to explore whether film-based Dynamic Assessment (DA) could affect English writing of Iranian deaf children. Ten students studying in a school for the deaf took part in the study. The participants’ writing ability was measured prior to the treatment and the errors which were identified. A series of meditating activities were designed and implemented during a three-...

Complex haemodynamic phenomena underpin the pathophysiology of chronic liver disease. Non-invasive MRI-based assessment of hepatic vascular parameters therefore has the potential to yield meaningful biomarkers for chronic liver disease. In this review, we provide an overview of vascular sequelae of chronic liver disease amenable to imaging evaluation and describe the current supportive evidence...

The stock assessment model described here is based on Sullivan et al.’s (1990) CASA model. CASA is entirely length-based with population dynamic calculations in terms of the number of individuals in each length group during each year. Age is largely irrelevant in model calculations. Unlike many other length-based stock assessment approaches, CASA is a dynamic, non-equilibrium model based on a f...

Reinforced concrete frame buildings with Open Ground Story (OGS) are one of the most common building configurations in urban habitat. These configurations are known to be vulnerable to seismic excitations, primarily due to the sudden loss in strength in the ground story and differential stiffness distribution throughout the structure. The differential stiffness distribution is attributed primar...

The model of a non-Bayesian agent who faces a repeated game with incomplete information against Nature is an appropriate tool for modeling general agent-environment interactions. In such a model the environment state (controlled by Nature) may change arbitrarily , and the feedback/reward function is initially unknown. The agent is not Bayesian, that is he does not form a prior probability neith...

INTRODUCTION The aim of our study is to identify the assessment of metabolic and dynamic capillaroscopy parameters that may be predictive of the outcome of spinal cord stimulation in patients affected with non-revascularisable chronic critical limb ischemia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty patients, 16 female and 24 male, average age 69 ± 8, underwent microcirculatory screening with transcutaneou...

Past studies indicate that standardized vocabulary tests may be insensitive to language impairments and may be culturally biased. Dynamic assessment may be used as an alternative or supplementary approach to measure a child’s ability to learn words. Factors that may need to be manipulated in dynamic assessment include phonotactic probability (i.e., frequency of sound sequences) and neighborhood...