purpose: to investigate the factors affecting communicational skills of regimental commanders toward conscripts at an army introductory military training center in tehran. materials and methods: the participants were 82 regimental commanders of the regiments and battalions of an introductory military training center. a 21-item questionnaire was used to collect the required data. descriptive and...

Multiple regression is a powerful set of methods for examining specific scientific hypotheses and relationships among experimental, quasiexperimental, and nonexperimental data. Typically, multiple regression is used as a data-analytic strategy to explain or predict a criterion (dependent) variable with a set of predictor (independent) variables. Wampold and Freund (1987) provided an important a...

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Greenhouse experiments in a completely randomized design were carried out to investigate the effects of nitroxin fertilizer (0, 1 and 2 li/ha) on morphological and physiological traits of Amaranthus retroflexus in 2013. The traits in the study included plant height, fresh and dry weight of shoots, roots, stem and leaf, Chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, total chlorophyll, carotenoids, anthocyanin, a...

Online consumers are known to be impatient. It is therefore critical for merchant websites to offer relevant recommendations quickly and with minimal customer input to their online visitors. Recommending pertinent items to first-time visitors, however, is particularly challenging. In this paper, we show how conjoint analysis can be leveraged to design a recommender system that elicits customers...

The main purpose of this study was to determine the predictors of academic achievement of student Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) teachers with different learning styles. Participants were 148 student ICT teachers from Ankara University. Participants were asked to fill out a personal information sheet, the Turkish version of Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory, Weinstein’s Learnin...

Identifying the most important factors for predicting academic performance of pharmacy students is of considerable interest to pharmacy educators. The purpose of this study was to identify significant factors that predicted academic performance of first year pharmacy students at the University of Georgia. Objectives of the study included: (i) evaluating factors that were believed to predict fir...

The Total System Performance Assessment (TSPA) for the proposed high level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, uses a sampling-based approach to uncertainty and sensitivity analysis. Specifically, Latin hypercube sampling is used to generate a mapping between epistemically uncertain analysis inputs and analysis outcomes of interest. This results in distributions that charact...

This article reports the relationships between a large number of child and family related factors and children’s functional outcomes, according to parental report, in the domains of spoken language communication, social skills and participation, academic achievement, and independence and identity, through a series of step-wise regression analyses. Parents of 247 children who had received cochle...