Methods for quantitatively assessing geological heritage have been used in a variety of settings and different purposes, such as environmental impact assessment, inventory natural heritage, tourism promotion, conservation unit management. In this sense, there are adaptations to each study relation the methodology regional context which research is developed, final objective. This proposes takin...

Aim of study: Practically and simply assessing biodiversity by using inventory variables in four types forest plantation stands (mixed pure) including species such are chestnut, blue gum maritime pine.
 Area Northwest Portugal Vale do Sousa (14,840 ha), which is 97% covered with forests.
 Material methods: Simulated data, from 90-year stand-level management planning, were considered t...

BACKGROUND During workplace based learning students develop professional competences and an appropriate performance. To gain insight in the learning process and to evaluate competences and performance, assessment tools are essential and need to be of good quality. We aimed to construct a competence inventory applicable as an instrument to measure the content validity of workplace based assessme...

Perfectionism cognitions capture automatic perfectionistic thoughts and have explained variance in psychological adjustment and maladjustment beyond trait perfectionism. The aim of the present research was to investigate whether a multidimensional assessment of perfectionism cognitions has advantages over a unidimensional assessment. To this aim, we examined in a sample of 324 university studen...

The current study aimed at examining the relationship between English language teachers’ assessment literacy and their teaching experience. In other words, it intended to inspect the relationship between native and non-native English language teachers’ assessment literacy and their teaching experience. To achieve such goals, 100 native and non-native English teachers from ESL and EFL contexts w...

The New Haven Community Clean Air Initiative is a pilot project for EPA’s Integrated Urban Air Toxics Strategy. 1999 National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) data reflected that New Haven County had the second highest quantity of air toxic emissions of any county in New England. In response, EPA and the City of New Haven developed a plan to inventory hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions from po...

[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 28(1) of Psychological Assessment (see record 2015-54029-001). The FFI-BPD values for Sample 3 in Table 2 should read 1.42 (0.44), 0.83.] The aim of the current study was to examine the reliability and validity of a trait-based assessment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) using the NEO Five-Factor Inventory. Correlations...

Purpose The purposes of this commentary are to further an on-going debate concerning the appropriate form of land use baseline for attributional life cycle assessment (LCA) and to respond to a number of arguments advanced by Soimakallio (Int J Life Cycle Assess 20:1364–1375, 2016). The commentary also seeks to clarify the conceptual nature of attributional LCA. Methods The overarching approach ...

Objective: the aim of the present study was to determine the validity, and reliability of Persian version of Adult Sources of Self-Esteem Inventory as the cross cultural scale for assessment of the self-esteem. Method: A sample of 500 students (350 females, 150male) were selected from Kharazmi university in Iran and completed the Persian version of the Adult Sources of Elovson and Fleming’s S...