Research on teacher cognition concerning listening instruction has not been sufficiently touched upon. The present case study aimed to investigate Iranian EFL teachers' stated practices, their perceptions of how effective those practices are, and their actual classroom practices of two casual process-oriented listening instructional approaches namely, strategy-based instruction (SBI) and metaco...

A questionnaire returned by 250 (71.4%) of the 350 general practices in Northern Ireland indicated that although only 34 practices had special arrangements for seeing their diabetic patients, 178 practices stated that they would like to be more involved in the care of their non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) patients. One hundred and eight practices felt the same way about their in...

Introduction: Breastfeeding is essential and a unique way of providing food to infants for development and healthy growth. Various breastfeeding practices are followed in different regions of India.  Objective: This study aims to collect the information for practices related to prelacteal feed, early initiation of breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding, and weaning in India. Materials and Met...

BACKGROUND JAMA introduced a requirement for independent statistical analysis for industry-funded trials in July 2005. We wanted to see whether this policy affected the number of industry-funded trials published by JAMA. METHODS AND FINDINGS We undertook a retrospective, before-and-after study of published papers. Two investigators independently extracted data from all issues of JAMA publishe...

Non-market economic values derived from stated preference (SP) methods are often of interest for policy analysis and evaluation, program design, green accounting, damage assessments increasingly in demand with adoption ecosystem-based management approaches that emphasize accounting ecosystem services their values. A recent guidance prescribes a set twenty-three best practices guidelines (BPGs) ...

Please note that since this Information Paper was released in November 2007 there have been significant developments in operational risk management and measurement practices, and therefore the contents of this Paper should be considered in the light of these improvements. Authorised deposit-taking institutions, especially those with approval to use an Advanced Measurement Approach (as stated in...

Website and mobile application privacy policies are intended to describe the system’s data practices. However, they are often written in non-standard formats and contain ambiguities that make it difficult for users to read and comprehend these documents. We propose a crowdsourcing approach to extract data practices from privacy policies to provide more concise and useable privacy notices to use...