The purpose of this study was to investigate the dimensionality of the reading assessment of 2001 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) by DIMTEST with DIMTEST-based Effect Size Measure (DESM) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). The 2001 PIRLS reading assessment was comprised of eight booklets, with accompanying items based on different reading passages. With respect to t...

introduction evaluation of the delivered dose of externally wedged photon beams by external diode dosimeters during the treatment process requires the estimation of exit surface dose correction factors in various wedge angles and field sizes. materials and methods a system of absorbed dose evaluation, using p-type diode dosimeters placed on the exit surface of a phantom, was characterized for e...

a r t i c l e i n f o We examine the role of liquidity risk, both as a stock characteristic as well as systematic liquidity risk, in UK mutual fund performance for the first time. We find that on average UK mutual funds are tilted towards liquid stocks (except for small stock funds as might be expected) but that, counter-intuitively, liquidity rather than illiquidity, as a stock characteristic ...

For problems with highly dynamic behavior, our experiments showed that there are speciic characteristics for diierent applications. We therefore propose a mapping environment providing several strategies for both granularity control and dynamic load balancing. For appropriate selection and parameterization of strategies, we extract the application characteristics using trace-based prooling and ...

International Lending Institutions (ILIs) and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) continuously design and implement Educational System Typologies (ESTs) in order to evaluate a nation’s educational performance in terms of quality of life improvements; Traditional ESTs are therefore constantly put at odds by the advent of new ESTs. This study aims to explore the ways in which traditional and ne...

BACKGROUND Traffic and transport is a substantial part of a range of economic, social and environmental factors distinguished to have impact on human health. This paper is a report on a preliminary section of a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) on urban traffic and transport initiatives, being conducted in Sanandaj, Iran. In this preliminary study, the psychometric properties of Urban Traffic rela...

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