PURPOSE This lead article of the Clinical Forum addresses some of the gaps that exist between clinical practice and current knowledge about instructional factors that influence learning and language development. METHOD Topics reviewed and discussed include principles of learning, generalization, treatment intensity, processing interventions, components of language therapy, grammar goals, and ...

Shared access networks such as hybrid fiber/coaxial and passive optical networks have emerged as promising ways to reduce the cost of the transition to a broadband access infrastructure and provide a graceful upgrade path towards the photonization of the local loop. The MAC protocol as the only arbiter of the upstream bandwidth directly affects the Quality of Service (QoS) provided to each upst...

Multinational conservation initiatives that prioritize investment across a region invariably navigate trade-offs among multiple objectives. It seems logical to focus where several objectives can be achieved efficiently, but such multi-objective hotspots may be ecologically inappropriate, or politically inequitable. Here we devise a framework to facilitate a regionally cohesive set of marine-pro...

Serious mental illness (SMI) results in functional disability that imposes a significant burden on individuals, caregivers, and society. Development of novel treatments is under way in an effort to improve the illness domains of cognitive impairment and negative symptoms and subsequently to improve functional outcomes. The assessment of functional outcomes in SMI faces a number of challenges, i...

Because of the importance of including ethical considerations in planning efforts for pandemic influenza, in February 2005 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requested that the Ethics Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee to the Director develop guidance that would serve as a foundation for decision making in preparing for and responding to pandemic influenza. Specifically, the eth...

trous 2007–2008 food price crisis, it was that it prompted governments and international donors to re-examine their priorities for agricultural development. They committed to invest in agriculture and food security in a manner that prioritizes small-scale producers (especially women), enhances the environment and contributes to the development of rural economies. While their promises to spend m...

There are many requirements prioritization techniques and selecting the most appropriate one is a decision problem in its own rights. This paper takes a closer look at the six requirement prioritization techniques and put them in a controlled experiment with the objective of understanding differences regarding ease of use, total time taken, scalability, accuracy, and total number of comparisons...

Flexible case-base maintenance (FCBM) and adaptation-guided feature deletion (AGFD) extend case-base maintenance (CBM) research. FBCM examines superficial properties of cases and their features such as the size of a case or the rarity of a feature. Then it deletes either entire cases, or components of cases, measuring competence by the number of problems solved and measuring size by the number ...

Ravigopal Vennelakanti Anshuman Sahu, Ph.D. Umeshwar Dayal, Ph.D. OVERVIEW: Disruptive innovation in an unconventional oil and gas industry such as the shale industry offers a promise to change the world’s economies. Advances in technologies such as horizontal directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing have fueled growth in the industry. However, oil and gas industry operators are facing tou...

due to increasing rate of flood risk throughout the world, including iran, it is necessary to identify and prioritize flood-contributing areas for flood control activities. in this study, a new approach on unit flood response method called “flood reduction method” was introduced which is applicable to prioritization of sub-basins for flood control activities. it was used to prioritize upstream ...