... affects the successful of their lessons With the hope of helping the teachers to develop and self-improve their useofvisualaids in teaching, this thesis was conducted The thesis not only focuses ... Students’ awareness ofvisualaids 29 III.1.1.1.1 Lackof knowledge about types ofvisualaids - 29 III.1.1.1.2 Lackoftheuseofvisualaids ... that they recognized the importance of using visualaids in speaking lessons They also could master the types ofvisualaids and the benefits of using visualaids in teaching In pre-survey, there...
... concentration The Big Four’s dominance ofthe audit market was the direct focus ofthe Lords’ inquiry and one ofthe key issues in the EC Green Paper The ‘systemic risk’ posed by such an oligarchy and the ... or not the company was a going concern The Lords devoted a lot of time to the issue of going concern in the audit of banks and the particular issue of whether auditors should have allowed their ... many parts ofthe business The chairs appreciated the auditors’ expertise on accounting matters and the fact that they brought issues to the AC’s attention of which they might not otherwise have...
... explicitly The Monster simple group has the other conjugacy class of involutions called 2A One ofthe aims in this paper is to give a new construction ofthe moonshine module VOA V from the point of ... , then MF ⊕ IndF (W δ ) is an (F, δ )-framed VOA Before D D we prove Theorem 3.21, we note that the conditions of Theorem 3.21 including the fusion rule (3.21) follow from the conditions of Theorem ... construct an infinite series of holomorphic framed VOAs with finite full automorphism groups At the end ofthe paper, we calculate the character of a 3C element ofthe Monster simple group Introduction...
... “deconstruction” would in the 21st century’s model of inhospitality? That is, rather than playing the standard riffs ofthe aporia ofthe ethics ofthe “otherness ofthe other,” one might experiment ... nameless war in the name ofthe name That would be the End and the Revelation ofthe name itself, the Apocalypse ofthe Name (“No Apocalypse” 30–31) Yet “climate change” is not of a human other, does ... alternative would nonetheless be thinkable, though to consider the ellipses in Derrida’s thought would occur at the expense ofthe memorialization ofthe capital ofthe name, the legacy, the mimic style,...
... that of Gazelle Their useof multiple processes is for failure containment across the user’s browsing sessions rather than for security Their security goal is to protect the host machine from the ... to which the event is dispatched There are two types of events for the currently active tab: stateless and stateful The owner of a stateless event like a mouse event is the tenant ofthe window ... measurement, the browser kernel occupies around 9MB of memory after a page load This includes the user interface components ofthe browser to present the rendered page to the user and the buffers...
... on the other hand lack overviews and have a compulsory step-by-step function Thus, the results ofthe printed questionnaire may be different from the computerized one We therefore compared the ... as "moderate", with the best result for GERS We consider this acceptable in view ofthe outcome ofthe factor analysis, the conditioning in the codes for the symptom domains, the relatively few ... intervals These meetings focused on the main functional gastrointestinal diagnoses reported in the study A more probable cause is that the doctors consider the nuances of what a patient says and the...
... Swedish translation ofthe CCQ provided by the developer [3,5,7] The questionnaires were filled in before meeting the health professional, i.e the GP or a nurse During the meeting The GP or a nurse ... Comparison of instruments The total scores ofthe instruments have completely different scales (Table 2) Nevertheless, the distributions of total scores were similar, and the concordance ICC for the ... than 50% of predicted, respectively The measurement properties ofthe CCQ were not destroyed by concomitant asthma The relevance ofthe present data is supported by the subgroup analysis of patients...
... to the other two samples Discussion The linguistic validation of and psychometric development work on the Japanese version ofthe W-BQ22 led to the creation ofthe W-BQ12 The scale consists of ... ensure that the breadth of content was retained) Items that contributed the most to the Cronbach's alpha and the items that best captured the breadth of content ofthe construct of positive well-being ... [8] The aim ofthe study was to develop a Japanese version ofthe W-BQ suitable for use in diabetes research and clinical practice The present paper reports the linguistic validation ofthe W-BQ...
... were within the limits ofthe MCID ofthe scores ofthe treating clinician in 62% and the mean score ofthe reviewing clinicians in 63% The proportion of cases within the MCID of 0.4 (CP 0.4 ) between ... with the patients on the day ofthe consultation Patients were asked to comment on every separate concept ofthe questionnaire They were asked what thoughts they had during completion ofthe individual ... absolute indices, the Total Deviation Index (TDI) and the Coverage Probability (CP), which are independent ofthe total data range The MCID is used for the Coverage Probability The cut-off points described...
... Brazilian version ofthe CPQ11–14 The study was conducted in Belo Horizonte, capital city ofthe state of Minas Gerais, Brazil The city is situated in the central southern region ofthe state and ... by the Human Research Ethics Committee ofthe Federal University of Minas Gerais Results The 160 children completed the Brazilian version ofthe CPQ11–14 questionnaire in the waiting room at the ... group of specialists with regard to the behavior ofthe instrument and the possibility of comparisons to studies conducted in different cultures Assessment of validity and reliability ofthe Brazilian...
... further disordering on a subsequent re-analysis (identified in Table as "Q11*") Thelackof threshold disordering supports theuseofthe Likert scoring method for the GHQ-12 as opposed to the ... Dimensionality concerns whether the data form a single factor [29] and can be used to assess whether the single latent trait explains all the variance in the data, i.e whether the instrument is unidimensional ... artefact caused by a response bias to the negative wording of six ofthe items [22] This study assessed the dimensionality ofthe GHQ-12 using confirmatory analysis allowing error terms on the negatively...
... size as compared to the French general population was ensured by theuseofthe method of quotas, based on the statistics ofthe French Employment Survey conducted in 2002 by the French National ... ensured by theuseofthe method of quotas3 Trained and independent interviewers of TNS-Healthcare SOFRES Institute using the Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) technique administered the ... to the quota methods In worth case, the precision ofthe results was ± 4.3% for a 95% confidence interval in the 507 women eligible in the national French screening plan The precision of the...
... assistance of relatives who accompanied them and of rheumatology nurses at the clinics The patients were asked whether they understood the 20 items from the eight domains ofthe Thai HAQ The levels of ... Among the others, 35 (27.8%) resided in Central Thailand, 23 (18.3%) in the North, 11 (8.7%) in the Northeast or East, and 31 (24.6%) in the Southern part of Thailand The mean (SD) age ofthe studied ... acceptable The average measure ICC ofthe Thai HAQ was 0.89 (95% CI 0.84 to 0.92) For each domain ofthe Thai HAQ, the estimates of ICC ranged from 0.77 to 0.87 The mean and SD of each domain of the...
... dividing the sum ofthe scores by the number of items Higher scores indicate better HRQOL on the SHQ and SF-36, but worse HRQOL on the SGRQ Dyspnea was evaluated using the Japanese version ofthe ... Study-Depression Scale the demographics ofthe remaining 122 patients and their scores on the SHQ, SF-36, SGRQ, MRC, and CES-D Cronbach’s coefficient a values ofthe DF, PF, and EF domains ofthe SHQ were ... all, these findings indicate that the SHQ could be an effective assessment for a wide range ofthe manifestations ofthe disease, including both functional and psychological The validity of the...
... establishing the MCID ofthe CCQ This might be because ofthe high reliability/intra-class coefficient Some researches take a more conservative approach to the assessment ofthe MCID using the SEM They use ... clinical improvement was of little importance in the setting ofthe present analysis, as the change in health status of these patients was either too small or too large to be of interest Patient referencing ... MCID of PRO questionnaires For the CRQ, oneSEM appears to be closely related to the MCID ofthe CRQ[15] In this study the SEM was found to be 0.21, which is lower than the other two methods used...
... status The total score is the sum ofthe scores ofthe three domains (varying to 7) The LCQ already has been validated in English and has also been used in at least one other language[11,13] Patients ... Validation To validate the LCQ we tested four different aspects ofthe questionnaire, i.e the concurrent validity, the internal consistency, the repeatability and the responsiveness The first two aspects ... and the scores ofthe other health outcome were used to determine concurrent validation Internal consistency was determined by calculating the Cronbach's alpha coefficients for the three Page of...
... G j with period 2n The rest a ss umpt ions f or F a n d for the characteristic roots are the same as in the first paragraph But here we consider the case when there exist the following relations ... proportional coefficients It is easily seen that with these values of q f p 5M the coefficients o f W in (2.8) are equal to zero Therefore, equating the coefficients jqp o f sin < 5, co s in (2.8) ... at the term s corresp o n d in g qj = qjsịlì p v = = PvsK 0' = 1* 2, Qisfll /, V = 1, 2, + ••• r), fo r w hich qisfll + + Pi ^ + ••• Prsflr - + ± ^ + Xs/I • O n the other hand, follow in g the...
... was employed in the first total synthesis of (±)-heptemerone G (2) and in a synthesis ofthe (±)-guanacastepene precursor Key features ofthe synthesis include an efficient new synthetic sequence ... e) O 8 17 18 Scheme Highlights ofthe proposed scheme for the synthesis of We now report the first total synthesis of heptemerone G (2) and, en route, a new synthetic approach to compound (which ... p-toluenesulfonic acid as the catalyst and methyl orthoformate as the water scavenger, at room temperature, afforded the corresponding ethylene ketal Hydrolysis ofthe crude ester then gave the hydroxy-ketal...