Assessing the student with intractable epilepsy requires skill not only in evaluating cognitive problems, but also detecting seizures and discovering how to adapt instruction to minimize their negative impact on learning. Ironically, assessment efforts are seen as compromised by the occurrence of seizures during testing, when determining how seizure events may interfere with learning and the in...

BACKGROUND Pressure ulcers are associated with substantial health burdens but may be preventable. PURPOSE To review the clinical utility of pressure ulcer risk assessment instruments and the comparative effectiveness of preventive interventions in persons at higher risk. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE (1946 through November 2012), CINAHL, the Cochrane Library, grant databases, clinical trial registri...

pushover analysis is a simplified nonlinear analysis technique that can be used to estimate the dynamic demands imposed on a structure under earthquake excitations. one of the first steps taken in this approximate solution is to assess the maximum roof displacement, known as target displacement, using the base shear versus roof displacement diagram. that could be done by the so-called dynamic p...

failure of the quay walls due to earthquakes results in severe economic loss. because of hazards threatening such inexpensive nodes of national and international transportation networks, seismic design of quay walls is still an evolving topic in marine structural engineering. this study investigates the sensitivity of the gravity-type quay wall stability respect to uncertain soil and seismic pr...

Early assessment of the non-functional properties of component compositions is one of the hottest issues in component-based architecting. We describe a method for evaluating the emergent static properties of an architecture, given the features of its constituents. The estimation framework is based on composition rules and the specification of the static properties of the components by means of ...

Static surface electromyography can provide an objective test of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar posterior areas that needs to be performed within a clear clinical or ergonomic context. It is of great help in postural assessment in the standing position in people with healthy backs or postural dysfunctions. The author has devised a protocol that allows statistically based treatment and more ...

T hanks in large part to early metrics, most old-school researchers and practitioners view software quality as a static assessment of the code’s structure.Fortunately, a new generation is realizing that software quality is more than a static trait; it also comprises nonfunctional, or behavioral, attributes, such as reliability and maintainability. Even Microsoft’s Bill Gates seems to have recog...

administrative regulations for water flow decrease distribution efficiency and effect the economical operation of irrigation networks. complications in distribution systems and the decrease in availability of water require study of the hydraulic performance of existing flow control structures. control systems designed by neyrpic (zayandeh rud network) and usbr (doroodzan network) were investiga...

The current study was intended to investigate the impact of Dynamic Assessment (DA) on promoting reading comprehension ability of Iranian male and female EFL learners, focusing on Guthke's Lerntest approach. In this study, the researcher used DA which unifies instruction with assessment to provide learners with mediation to promote their hidden potential during assessment. In this action resear...