This study aimed to explore the relationships between foreign language learners’ self-identity changes, motivation types, and Foreign Language proficiency associated with learning English in private language schools in Iranian context. Based on a stratified sampling, 204 English as a foreign language learners from three language schools in Tehran were selected to participate in the study. The i...

background: quality in health care can be seen as having three principal dimensions: service, technical and customer quality. this study aimed to measure customer quality in relation to self-management of type 2 diabetes. methods: a cross-sectional survey of 577 type 2 diabetes people was carried out in australia. the 13-item patient activation measure was used to evaluate customer quality base...

We derive bounds on the scope for a confidence band to adapt unknown regularity of nonparametric function that is observed with noise, such as regression or density, under self-similarity condition proposed by Giné and Nickl (Ann. Statist. 38 (2010) 1122–1170). find adaptation can only be achieved up term depends choice constant used define self-similarity, this becomes arbitrarily large conser...