this study investigated how group formation method, namely student-selected vs. teacher-assigned, influences the results of the community model of teaching creative writing; i.e., group dynamics and group outcome (the quality of performance). the study adopted an experimental comparison group and microgenetic research design to observe the change process over a relatively short period of time. ...

a phase-locked loop (pll) based frequency synthesizer is an important circuit that is used in many applications, especially in communication systems such as ethernet receivers, disk drive read/write channels, digital mobile receivers, high-speed memory interfaces, system clock recovery and wireless communication system. other than requiring good signal purity such as low phase noise and low spu...

In the present study two genetically connected small and large populations were simulated and the effect of different sources of information from foreign populations on the accuracy of predicted genomic breeding values of young animals of the small population was investigated. A large population consist of 200000 animals over 15 generations and a small population consist of 5000 animals over 3 ...

In this research, investigation of genetic, phenotypic and environmental trends of biometric traits in Makuie sheep was performed using collected data from 1989 to 2012 at Makouei sheep breeding station. Estimation of trends was performed by multivariate animal model using the DFREML software. Genetic, phenotypic and environmental trends were estimated by regression of breeding values average, ...

with the introduction of communicative language teaching, a large number of studies have concerned with students’ oral participation in language classrooms. although the importance of classroom participation is evident, some language learners are unwilling to engage in oral activities. this passivity and unwillingness to participate in language classroom discussions is known as “reticence”. rev...

In this study, 5608 records of Kordi sheep body weights collected during 21 years (1990 to 2010) in Sheep Breeding Station of Shirvan were used to estimate genetic, phenotypic and environmental trends. Best linear unbiased predictions (BLUP) of breeding values were obtained by derivative free restricted maximum likelihood (DFREML) using univariate animal model. Genetic, phenotypic and environme...