We propose several new statistical methods for assessing the presence and sources of small area variations in physician practice. Applying these methods to the choice of caesarian versus vaginal delivery in Florida, we show that half of the observed variation in regional practice is a statistical artifact resulting from variation in individual physician practice styles. The remaining half is du...

Vocabulary learning is an on-going and life-long process, which is greatly influenced by individual differences. As one of the most outstanding individual differences, learning style largely determines learners’ selection of learning strategies and thereby has a great effect on learning outcomes. Matching learning strategies with learning styles has a great potential in enhancing learning. Alth...

An issue often neglected in the design of pervasive display infrastructures and applications is the user interaction required to set up or start using the application. In this paper a system is described that makes it possible to compare different interaction styles for identifying and selecting resources in an environment shared by multiple users. An experiment was conducted to test two differ...

This article discusses the formats of the infl uences of European artistic styles which have left a trail in Croatian folk art. The term folk art used here was established in the beginning of the 20th century through the selection of ethnographic items according to urban aesthetical criteria, which presented the rural visual art opus. It starts by naming visual art elements included in the ethn...

In order to improve students' teaching/learning processes computational systems have been developed allowing to adapt virtual courses based on the students' profiles. There are currently various kinds of adaptation such as instruccional adaptation of plans, assessments adaptation, and adaptation of educational contents, among others.The aim of this paper is to propose a fuzzy inference model fo...

A method for high-level synthesis with testability is presented with the objective to generate self-testable RTL datapath structures. We base our approach on a new improved testabilitymodel that generates various testable design styles while reducing the circuit sequential depth from controllable to observable registers. We follow the allocation method with an automatic test point selection alg...

Growing evidence suggests that work-related psychological injuries are a concern worldwide. While previous efforts to address mainly focused on the individual level of analysis, psychosocial safety climate (PSC) theory emphasizes analysis and prevention at organizational level. there is abundant impact leadership other constructs, scant attention has been paid PSC. This study scoping review ext...

PURPOSE The goal of the current study was to identify associations between the learning style of nursing students and their cultural values and demographic characteristics. METHODS A non-probability purposive sampling method was used to gather data from two populations. All 156 participants were female, Muslim, and full-time degree students. Data were collected from April to June 2010 using t...

narrative frequency is one of the main temporal and stylistic categories as well as an important miraculous aspect de-familiarizing qur’an. the story of adam is among the qur’anic stories that have been repeated in seven verses. of the artistic aspects of this story, it can be referred to its narrative dissemination. the types of frequency differing from singular, anaphoric, style and anaphoric...