Apart from their well-documented impacts on human development and poverty alleviation, recent evidence suggest that social cash transfer programs may foster broader economic development impacts. These impacts come through changes in household behavior and through impacts on the local economy of the communities where the transfers operate. The householdlevel impacts follow three main documented ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the concurrent validity of the Community Integration Questionnaire (CIQ) by comparing actual participation in community activities by individuals with traumatic brain injury. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SUBJECTS A total of 148 community-dwelling patients in Japan with a medical diagnosis of traumatic brain injury. METHODS A postal questionnaire survey examined the ...

Software for supporting students in learning in a collaborative way is very often less productive than expected. We have defined models to collect and analyse traces of learning activities in instrumented collective learning situations (ICLS). We have conducted an experiment, to test a prototype of an observation station, with students and a teacher during a foreign language course at the unive...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of a pilot study that promoted productive and capacity-building activities among deprived rural women of Mexico. The evaluation design is observational; 1,278 women are interviewed, and the comparison group is estimated by propensity score matching. The results show a positive impact on the carrying out of agricultural activities, in the aut...

This study aims to analyse the impact of recreational activities on employees’ productivity Nepalese commercial banks as well examine relationship between “physical fitness and productivity”, “mental health “Entertainment productivity.” To carry out this research, 201 samples were gathered who employees working in inside Kathmandu valley. Quota sampling technique was applied acquire data from d...

a growing body of research has indicated that students of esl/efl are reticent and unwilling to be engaged in oral activities in english lessons. communicative language ability includes speaking ability, so vocabulary knowledge plays an integral role in speaking a language. however, there have been few studies examining the degree to which vocabulary knowledge affects speaking ability. the pres...