this paper presents the findings of a study on iranian  english language teachers’ understanding of  task-based language teaching (tblt) principles and  perceived challenges of tblt implementation in iran. the data obtained from 100 respondents on a 39-item survey instrument and four essay questions analyzed through frequency statistics revealed that nearly 70 percent of teachers are cognizant ...

Project JXTA is the first peer-to-peer application development infrastructure, which includes standard protocols and multilanguage implementations. The performance and scalability of JXTA are not well understood, despite its widespread usage in the research community and increasing popularity in the industry. This paper proposes a JXTA performance model and presents results obtained by benchmar...

For the problem of large dimensionless index fluctuations in rotating machinery complex fault and that the corresponding scope is difficult to determine. In this paper proposes a rotating machinery complex fault method that combined dimensionless and the least squares method filtering. This method implementation filtering and determine the scope of the dimensionless index. By doing experiments ...

BACKGROUND Although Norway is well known for its early use of telemedicine to provide services for people in rural and remote areas in the Arctic, little is known about the pace of telemedicine adoption in Norway. The aim of the present study was to explore the statewide implementation of telemedicine in Norwegian hospitals over time, and analyse its adoption and level of use. METHODS Data on...

Personal health budgets (PHBs) in England have been viewed as a vehicle for developing a personalised patient-based strategy within the substance misuse care pathway. In 2009, the Department of Health announced a 3-year pilot programme of PHBs to explore opportunities offered by this new initiative across a number of long-term health conditions, and commissioned an independent evaluation to run...

The early warning score system is a decision-making tool that has a simple design, yet its implementation in healthcare organisations is proving complex. This article reports the results of a survey that evaluated nurses' experiences of using the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) in an acute hospital in Ireland. Staff reported that the NEWS was easy to use, did not increase workload and enhan...

Abstract. Compliance checking of business processes executed by auditors requires to analyze documents e.g. log files, business process models depending on requirements derived from reference guidelines. This paper presents a forward compliance checking application for facilitating conformant behavior by detecting organizational operations and their deviations based on these documents in a sema...