BACKGROUND Malnutrition, especially under nutrition puts children at increased risk of morbidity and mortality and remains a serious barrier in child growth, development and survival. This is a major public health problem among under- 5 children in Nepal particularly in rural areas. OBJECTIVE To assess the burden and contributing factors for malnutrition in hill community of Ilam district in ...

Probability, Random Chance, and Genetics Why do we study random chance and probability during a unit on genetics? Genetics is the study of inheritance, but it is also a study of probability. Most eukaryotic organisms are diploid, meaning that each cell contains two copies of every chromosome, so there are two copies of each gene that controls a trait (alleles). In sexual reproduction, these two...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the cultural dimension of foreign language education, and teachers today are expected to promote the acquisition of intercultural competence in their learners. Thus, the present study aimed to investigate the opinions and attitudes of Iranian teachers of English on intercultural competence teaching and to see how and to what extent these opin...

Most of the time, we have the raw data to conduct the necessary statistical analysis in SAS®. However, when there is only summary data available, some additional SAS coding is necessary in order to perform the hypothesis test. SAS procedures, as well as simplified macros (%SUM_TTEST, %SUM_ANOVA, %P_ANOVA, %SUM_CHI) with examples, will be discussed in this paper for chi-square test, two sample t...

A measure of closeness among three or more means from normal populations was proposed by Ng (2000). The F-statistic was proposed to test the null hypothesis that this measure of closeness is greater than or equal to some prespecified δ (>0), against the alternative hypothesis that this measure of closeness is smaller than δ. The null distribution of the F-statistic at the boundary has a non-cen...

To find an easy-to-use, automated tool to identify technical vocabulary applicable to learners at various levels, nine statistical measures were applied to the 7.3-million-word ‘commerce and finance’ component of the British National Corpus. The resulting word lists showed that each statistical measure extracted a different level of specialized vocabulary as measured by word length, vocabulary ...