30 Purpose/ Content (K) Paper has no purpose. No hypothesis/thesis is evident. Paragraphs do not support purpose throughout paper. Purpose is weak or unclear in four or more paragraphs. Paragraphs do not support purpose in 75% or more of paper. Thesis/hypothesis fails to assert idea. Purpose is fairly clear but lost in two or more paragraphs. Support for purpose is unrelated in at least two or ...

By “generic” we mean stable singularities (intersections), which cannot be reduced by adding small perturbations to the functions/data. That is, what kind and how many configurations are possible such that small changes in the shape of regions near the intersection point do not/cannot reduce the number of regions meeting at a single point. The term “small changes” is somewhat ambiguous in this ...

T he first British guidelines for the management of asthma in adults published in 1990 clearly recommended self-management of asthma. The exact statement read: ‘‘As far as possible, patients should be trained to manage their own treatment rather than be required to consult their doctor before making changes’’. Similar advice has been repeated in subsequent revisions of the UK guidelines and in ...

Within patent law, there are two primary mechanisms that attempt to afford the appropriate balance between patent owners and subsequent inventors. First are the disclosure doctrines: a patent applicant cannot claim more than what she has actually disclosed in the patent application. A claim that is overly broad because it lacks adequate support in the patent specification is invalid. There is a...

Purpose: Present study was conducted with the aim of the effects of teaching method of writing with brain-based learning on educational self-efficacy and written ability of female students in fifth grade of primary school. Materials & Methods: A quasi-experimental method with designing pre-test and post-test with unequal control group was used and to select the sample, the one-stage cluster sam...

In our modern technological world, Computer-Assisted Language learning (CALL) is a new realm towards learning a language in general, and learning L2 vocabulary in particular. It is assumed that the use of multimedia annotations promotes language learners’ vocabulary acquisition. Therefore, this study set out to investigate the effects of different multimedia annotations (still picture annotatio...

PURPOSE To investigate if the performance on linguistic tasks would be predictive of orthographic domain and quality of written productions. METHODS Participants were 82 fourth graders of Elementary Education, from public and private schools of São Paulo, with ages ranging from 9 years to 10 years and 2 months. The test battery was composed of an expressive vocabulary test, phonological aware...

For the functional validation of hardware designs, simulation with coverage analysis is still the primary means at RTL description of design. Here coverage analysis shows the way towards the optimal use of resource, validation or verification completeness and untested areas of HDL design. The complete coverage analysis of Memory Built in Self-Test (MBIST) controller using several code and funct...