abstract beliefs are an important aspect of any learning program as they affect the way teachers and students define their roles, and the way they approach their duties and responsibilities. besides, they highly affect teachers’ practices, methods, and lesson plans. the importance of beliefs inspired the present researchers to evaluate and compare efl teachers’ beliefs before and after a teache...

INTRODUCTION In the last decades, Mozambique has been undergoing demographic, epidemiological, economic and social transitions, which have all had a notable impact on the National Health System. New challenges have emerged, causing a need to expand the preparation and response to emerging disease threats and public health emergencies. METHODS We describe the structure and function of the Moza...

This paper describes the techniques we explored to improve the translation of news text in the German-English and HungarianEnglish tracks of the WMT09 shared translation task. Beginning with a convention hierarchical phrase-based system, we found benefits for using word segmentation lattices as input, explicit generation of beginning and end of sentence markers, minimum Bayes risk decoding, and...

  The C7-RAS 6/061-004 training course by the International Atomic Energy Agency/Regional Cooperative Agreement (IAEA/RCA) was held in Chiba in 2014. The syllabus, pre- and post-course evaluations, and survey questionnaire results were assembled in this course. The post-course evaluation, including 32 questions similar to the pre-course evaluation, was performed right after the end of the final...

background in 2003 the afghan ministry of public health (moph) adopted the integrated management of childhood illness (imci) for delivering child health services in primary care facilities. key problems were subsequently identified: high cost of training, frequent health worker turnover and poor quality of imci implementation by those trained – specifically in the use of job aids and protocols ...

The Interactive Storytelling Architecture for Training (ISAT) is designed to address the limitations of computer games for advanced distributed learning (ADL) and to fully realize the potential of games to become engaging and individualized training environments. The central component of the ISAT architecture is an intelligent director agent responsible for individualizing the training experien...

Current advanced degree and research training programs no longer attract adequate numbers of students. The present system of dental education severely limits the appeal of these programs due to overcrowded curricula and clinical components that operate in an environment segregated from the academic/research enterprise. To make research-oriented education/training programs more accessible and in...

OBJECTIVE To explore the structure, components, and training goals of pediatric hospitalist fellowship programs in North America. DESIGN We constructed a 17-item structured questionnaire to be administered by phone. Questionnaire items focused on documenting goals, training, requirements, and clinical duties of pediatric hospitalist training programs. From February through June 2007, research...