PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To examine the influence of mastery, physical activity levels, and subsequent trajectories of domains of functional health across the adult life course. DESIGN AND METHODS We examined 8-year trajectories of physical functioning (handgrip strength) and functional health (physical [RAND PHC12], psychological [RAND MHC12], and cognitive [processing speed]) in a large Austral...

The main aim of this paper is to present a completeness proof of a formal system for reasoning about logical consequences of structured speciications. The system is based on the proof rules for structural spec-iications build in an arbitrary institution as presented in ST 88]. The proof of its completeness is inspired by the proof due to M. V. Cengarle (see Cen 94]) for speciications in rst-ord...

Logical architectures combine several logics into a more complex logical system. In this paper we study a logical architecture using input/output operations corresponding to the functionality of logical components. We illustrate how the architectural approach can be used to develop a logic of a normative system based on logics of counts-as conditionals, institutional constraints, obligations an...

objective: this research investigated the relationship personality traits, resources management strategies and motivational strategies in predicting academic achievement whit intellectual disability students at second grade of high school in townships of tehran. materials & methods: the participants were 200 students (126 girls and 74 boys) at second grade of high school in townships of tehran ...

PURPOSE Although the link between depression and lower levels of mastery is well established, limited information exists on ethnic and gender differences in the association between the two. The current study investigated ethnic, gender, and ethnic by gender differences in the link between major depressive disorder (MDD) and low mastery in the United States. METHODS We used data from the Natio...

AbstractDeveloping self-regulated learners has been the life-long ambition of different stakeholders in education. This study was set out to find the relationships between self-regulated strategies as defined by time and resource management, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, achievement goals classified as mastery, performance-approach and performance-avoidance, and the listening ac...