Local design and optimization of the components of a fault-management system results in sub-optimal decisions. This means that the target system will likely not meet its objectives (under-performs) or cost too much if conditions, objectives, or constraints change. We can fix this by applying a nested, management system for the fault-management system itself. We believe that doing so will produc...

The Prevent Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth (P.A.R.T.Y.) program is an injury prevention program set up in 2011 at a Level-1 trauma center in Germany. Its objective is the prevention of road traffic accidents among young road users. Our goal is to enable adolescents to recognize risks and to improve life-changing behavior to reduce the severity of injury and the number of killed young ...

The purpose of this study was to probe the effect of metacognitive strategy instruction through dialogic interaction on the reading comprehension performance and metacognitive awareness of Iranian EFL learners. The data were collected through the Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) and a reading test to examine changes in metacognitive awareness and reading performance before and after the inte...

The purpose of this study was to probe the effect of metacognitive strategy instruction through dialogic interaction on the reading comprehension performance and metacognitive awareness of Iranian EFL learners. The data were collected through the Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) and a reading test to examine changes in metacognitive awareness and reading performance before and after the inte...

BACKGROUND Social marketing integrates communication campaigns with behavioural and environmental change strategies. Childhood obesity programs could benefit significantly from social marketing but communication campaigns on this issue tend to be stand-alone. METHODS A large-scale multi-setting child obesity prevention program was implemented in the Hunter New England (HNE) region of New Sout...

aims: the most important causes for mortality rate and poor quality of life in cardiovascular patients arise from insufficient and inappropriate self-care. this study aimed to examine the effect of an educational self-care program on awareness and performance in patients with coronary syndrome. materials & methods: this is an experimental study conducted in hospitals affiliated with qom univers...

Robots are continuously being deployed in ever challenging domains with tasks of increasing complexity. With these mounting challenges, robots will need to gain a better understanding of their environment and the status of surrounding dynamic obstacles. Human situational awareness may provide robots with this greater understanding. Presently, no straightforward approach is known for achieving h...

Citation: Boyes ME, Leitão S, Claessen M, Dzidic P, Boyle G, Perry A and Nayton M (2017) Improving Phonological Awareness in Parents of Children at Risk of Literacy Difficulties: A Preliminary Evaluation of the Boost Program. Front. Educ. 2:47. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2017.00047 improving Phonological awareness in Parents of children at risk of literacy Difficulties: a Preliminary evaluation of the ...