Individualized identification grids were administered to 16-18-year-old males (N=49) in order to chart the complex of identification they have established with their parents, peers, and school personnel. It was hypothesized that patterns of identification with particular acquaintances would vary as a function of individuals' level of academic achievement. The results of this study indicated tha...

The authors of the present study have extended research by D. Marryshow that investigated African American students' attitudes toward 4 high achievers who differed in their approach to high achievement. D. Marryshow (1992) assessed students' social attitudes and perceptions of 4 high achievers with culturally distinct achievement orientations. In the present research, the authors assessed stude...

This study investigated if different response formats (test methods) measure reading comprehension of expository text differently. The study was conducted with 48 semester 6 TESL students at a university in Selangor, Malaysia. These students received an expository passage having descriptive rhetorical structure followed by three response formats, namely, incomplete outline, graphic organizer, a...

The "8020" goal of retaining 20 or more teeth after the age of 80 necessitates investigating oral health status in people below the age of 80. The purpose of this study was to determine similarities and differences between people in their sixties attending college and achievers of the 8020 goal. The results of oral examination and occlusal force measurement in 46 students enrolled at a college ...

Reading and listening as receptive skills have been investigated from multiple angles. The current research is a descriptive study aiming to find the correlation between two skills. In addition, it investigates strengths weaknesses in terms of four subskills (finding main idea, answering stated-detail questions, implied-detail identifying meaning expressions used an oral or written discourse) p...

By site-directed mutagenesis, six insulin residues related to the insulin-receptor interaction were grafted, partially or fully, onto the corresponding position of a recombinant amphioxus insulin-like peptide (ILP) that contained the A- and B-domains of the deduced amphioxus ILP. After fermentation, purification, and enzymatic cleavage, six insulin-like double-chain ILP analogues were obtained:...

in this paper, shortest path design problem (spdp) in which the path is incident to all cells is considered. the bi-directional path is one of the known types of configuration of networks for automated guided vehi-cles (agv).to solve this problem, two algorithms are developed. for each algorithm an integer linear pro-gramming (ilp) is determined. the objective functions of both algorithms are t...

Abstract Previous studies have associated several variables concerning motivation and other domains with underachievement, i. e. a student's academic achievement falling short of what their cognitive abilities, as the best predictor performance, would indicate. The present study extends these findings using more rigorous approach in defining underachievers suitable control groups. Using discrim...

In our previous work we have introduced EDA-ILP, an Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) system based on Estimation Distribution Algorithm (EDA). EDA-ILP showed to be superior when compared to GA-ILP, a variation of EDA-ILP created replacing the EDA by a “conventional” Genetic Algorithm. Additionally, EDA-ILP proved to be very competitive when compared to the state of the art ILP system Aleph. Thi...