The present study aimed at investigating whether two types of assessment strategies, namely Dynamic Assessment and Non-Dynamic Assessment had any significant impact on elementary and pre-intermediate Iranian EFL learners' performance on their final achievement test including reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and language functions. The participants of the study were 81 learners studyi...

BACKGROUND To report the development, external validity, reliability, and feasibility of a falls risk assessment tool for use in primary care. METHODS Two prospective cohort studies, a test-retest reliability study, and a feasibility study were included. Seven hundred and sixty four older community-living people (mean age = 75.3 years, SD = 5.8) participated in the tool development study, 362...

OBJECTIVE To assess the feasibility of a pre-operative occupational therapy intervention for patients undergoing primary total hip replacement. DESIGN Single blinded feasibility randomised controlled trial, with data collection prior to the intervention, and at 4, 12, and 26 weeks following surgery. SETTING Recruitment from two NHS orthopaedic outpatient centres in the West Midlands, UK. ...

Best practice guidance for clinical studies asks investigators to employ the highest possible standards in privacy and consent. When considering the feasibility of a clinical study, issues of privacy extend not only to actual but also to potential study participants. The consent required to access records to determine whether or not an individual might be eligible to participate in a study is s...

PURPOSE The assessment and management of dementia, falls and mobility disorders, malnutrition, end-of-life issues, pressure ulcers, and urinary incontinence have been identified as important quality improvement targets for vulnerable elders residing in nursing homes. This study aimed to identify valid and feasible measures of specific care processes associated with improved outcomes for these c...

Background context 2 AHELO goals and challenges 2 Strategic goals 2 Challenges to address in AHELO 3 Why the OECD? 3 The AHELO approach and its rationale 4 A multi-dimensional definition of quality 4 HEIs as units of analysis 5 A target population of students at the end of their undergraduate degree 6 Reporting at institutional level to permit a wide substantive coverage with limited response b...

The most recent regulations, as well the scientific studies, remark importance of evaluation entire life cycle on building renovations, relative to environmental impact and economic feasibility, making Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) prioritizing analysis. objective study is develop a simplified methodology for assessment residential renovations with approach. For this, script-based tool-kit develo...

This paper models and analyses downlink power assignment feasibility in Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) mobile networks. By discretizing the area into small segments, the power requirements are characterized via a matrix representation that separates user and system characteristics. We obtain a closed-form analytical expression of the so-called Perron-Frobenius eigenvalue of that matrix, w...

the money creation by commercial banks, raises the question whether this phenomenon is defensible and vindicable from the perspective of economic values and goals in islam? opponents of bank money creation introduce it as an anti-stability, violator of ethics, unfair, violator of state power in exercising its right to publish money and stimulator of no priority social activities while defenders...