ABSTRACT This article discusses the student permanence in technical courses that are subsequent to high school at Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (Instituto de – IFSC initials Portuguese from Brazil) and presents results a study carried out with teachers students these courses. The objective was understand conditions related based on interlocution between their living institutional conditio...

In this study, it is aimed to examine the studies on coding-based applications through mixed-meta analysis method. The effect of practices retention scores was examined using meta-analysis method at first step. Following step, a meta-thematic analyzes qualitative were carried out behalf effectiveness and results regarding relationship with reached. 10 attained scanning databases document review...

Space allocation of urban facilities is a critical field of decision making in urban planning. Supposing that Geographic Information (GI) provide us with more objective parameters for space allocation, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is used by urban planners. But usage of GIS in urban planning is limited to simple analyses believing that complex spatial analyzes complicate the currently e...

xi At Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), a new generation of war-wounded soldiers is arriving with major limb amputation from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than 144 amputees from the Operations Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) are being treated at WRAMC and the number is growing. The mission of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of De...

Reaching out and grasping an object is second nature to us, but this simple task requires various brain regions to analyze visual features, such as the 3-D shape of the object, and use that information to plan and execute actions (Fig. 1). Past studies have shown that neurons in a brain region called the anterior intraparietal area (AIP) respond selectively to 3-D shape and are active during ob...

This paper provides evidence of the role that financial market development and institutional quality play in integration European Union (EU) life insurance markets. It analyzes ten EU markets over a seventeen-year sample period. The meta-technology cost/revenue efficiency ratios, estimated under meta-frontier DEA framework, are used as measure analysis is conducted by applying Tobit panel regre...

This draft clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of vitamin D deficiency is an update from a previous 2016 document. An analysis relevant literature data was carried out, with particular attention to meta-­analyzes, randomized trials systematic reviews published over past 5 years. The updated recommendations were discussed revised by leading endocrinologists Ru...

this paper uses the concept of meta-frontier to investigate the relationship between meta technology ratios (mtr) and different varieties in datepalms including; mazafati, rabi and zardan that are produced widely in sistan and baluchestan province of iran. we used a stratified sampling of 300 date farmers of this province in 2010, 2011 and 2012 and estimated a stochastic production frontier usi...

the present meta-analysis was conducted to provide a quantitative measure of the overall effects of task complexity on chinese efl learners’ language production. based on the strict inclusion criteria, 12 primary studies were synthesized according to key features. eleven of them were meta-analyzed to investigate effects of raising the resource-directing task complexity. results revealed that ...