Our research objective is to organize existing learning strategies and systems to support the development of learners’ metacognitive skill. It is difficult to organize them because the term metacognition itself is mysterious and ambiguous. In order to achieve the objective, we first organize activities in cognitive skill and metacognitive skill. It enables us to reveal what activity existing le...

MANAGING AMBIGUITY: NURSES CARING FOR THE MOTHER OF A STILLBORN BABY

The article deals with the problems of political and economic processes in Kazakhstan since independence in the context of globalization. It analyzes the geopolitical situation and selfpositioning processes in the world after the end of the "cold war". It examines the problems of internal economization of the Republic for 20 years of independence. The authors argue that the reforms proceeded in...

What’s it take to interpret a physical theory? The question is ambiguous. In one sense it asks what it takes to be an interpretation of a physical theory; that is, what qualifies an intellectual offering as an interpretation of a theory. In another sense, it asks what it takes to construct an interpretation of a physical theory; that is, what resources are fair game for articulating an offering...

All 95 undergraduates in this study decided if letter strings formed real words or not. Word meaning (ambiguous, unambiguous words) was manipulated within subjects while stimulus proportion (proportion of ambiguous and unambiguous words) was manipulated between subjects. These factors interacted, suggesting that strategic factors influence word recognition. These results support the view that w...

Several affective and cognitive processes have been found to be pivotal in affecting aesthetic experience of artworks and both neuropsychological as well as psychiatric symptoms have been found to affect artistic production. However, there is a paucity of studies directly investigating effects of brain lesions on aesthetic judgment. Here, we assessed the effects of unilateral brain damage on ae...

background: congenital adrenal hyperplasia (cah) and vanishing testes are uncommon diseases that can result from hormonal and mechanical factors. classic cah is determined by ambiguous genitalia and increase in amount of 17-hydroxyprogesterone. simultaneous occurrence of cah and vanishing testes is a rare condition. case: a 22-year-old boy, known case of cah who was diagnosed as female pseudohe...

background: x-linked lissencephaly with ambiguous genitalia (xlag) is a recently described genetic disorder, in which patients present with lissencephaly, agenesis of the corpus callosum, refractory epilepsy of neonatal onset, acquired microcephaly, and male genotype with ambiguous genitalia. xlag is responsible for a severe neurological disorder of neonatal onset in boys. a gyration defect con...