Language Assessment Practices and Beliefs: Implications for Language Assessment Literacy by Frank Giraldo

“…The findings show that the teachers used varied traditional and alternative assessment instruments, assessed language and non-language constructs, used assessment information to improve teaching and learning, evaluated assessment results, and engaged students in quantitative peer assessment. …”
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Language Assessment Practices and Beliefs: Implications for Language Assessment Literacy by Frank Giraldo

“…The findings show that the teachers used varied traditional and alternative assessment instruments, assessed language and non-language constructs, used assessment information to improve teaching and learning, evaluated assessment results, and engaged students in quantitative peer assessment. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF QUICK RETURN MECHANISM FOR EXPERIMENTATION USING SOLIDWORKS by NURUDEEN OLATUNDE ADEKUNLE, KOLAWOLE ADESOLA OLADEJO, ISMAILA OLASUNKANMI SALAMI, ADEWALE OREOLUWA ALABI

“…The aim of this work was to simulate, design and construct a prototype of a QRM that can be used for demonstration and instrumentation. The QRM was simulated using Solidworks and a prototype was developed from the simulated results. …”
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La culture, terreau de la nature by Hélène Melin

“…The protection of the environment has long meant a strict separation between human activities and the conservation of biodiversity. Instruments such as the granting of the status of "national park" were intended to achieve this goal and to protect such areas of outstanding natural beauty from the ravages of man. …”
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Acute Lumbar Burst Fracture Treated by Minimally Invasive Lateral Corpectomy by Rodrigo Amaral, Luis Marchi, Leonardo Oliveira, Thiago Coutinho, Luiz Pimenta

“…Here we report a case of acute lumbar burst fracture at L2 treated by minimally invasive true lateral approach posteriorly instrumented with percutaneous pedicle screws. The minimum disruptive access in addition to a rigid construction allowed a lumbar corpectomy without the morbidity of standard open approaches, lowering surgery costs and accelerating the patient recovery with successfully clinical and radiological results.…”
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Écrire À partir de la parole ou l’appréhension des souvenirs : une réélaboration au présent du passé récent en Argentine by Paula Sombra

“…This research is based on the use of oral histories as instruments of knowledge capable of elaborating today’s representations of the experience of political activism. …”
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Television viewing and personality needs of South African adolescents by Daan van Vuuren, J .J. de Beer, S.H.C. du Toit

“…Multivariate statistical techniques, e.g. profile analysis, were used to analyze the data obtained by various psychometric instruments and questionnaires. …”
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Assessment of Ethical Ideals and Ethical Manners in Care of Older People by Marianne Frilund, Lisbeth Fagerström, Katie Eriksson, Patrik Eklund

“…Material is based on questionnaire data collected by the instrument for the self-assessment of individual ethos in the care of older people (ISAEC) in spring 2007 in a municipality in Western Finland. …”
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Rola public relations w promocji usług w przedsiębiorstwach funkcjonujących w Polsce by Justyna Łapińska, Katarzyna Pawlak-Kołodziejska

“…W działaniach promocyjnych usług na szczególną uwagę zasługuje public relations. Jest to instrument, który wyróżnia się tym, że nie jest skierowany wyłącznie na zachowania klientów, ale dąży do wzbudzenia zainteresowania usługą i firmą, która ją świadczy oraz w dalszej kolejności do budowania długotrwałych, opartych na zaufaniu relacji. …”
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Jérôme Deyris, De la stabilité des prix à la stabilisation du climat ? L’économie politique du verdissement des banques centrales by Jérôme Deyris

“…I show that while the type of greening, its translation into instruments and the ways in which it is legitimised all depend on the institutional context in which the central bank is embedded, this relationship is less strict and less unidirectional than it might seem. …”
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On the Motion of Harmonically Excited Spring Pendulum in Elliptic Path Near Resonances by T. S. Amer, M. A. Bek, I. S. Hamada

“…The mentioned model is considered one of the important scientific applications like in instrumentation, addressing the oscillations occurring in sawing buildings and the most of various applications of pendulum dampers.…”
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How to Protect Future Generations' Rights in European Governance by Maja Göpel, Malte Arhelger

“…By comparing a selection of existing instruments with regards to their impact on the legislative process, we propose the creation of a European Guardian for Future Generations as the most effective measure to protect the rights of future generations and provide an overview of recent developments in this direction.…”
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Bolívar par l’image ou les travestissements de l’histoire by Frédérique Langue

“…So, this essay will attempt to decipher the instrumentalization of history through both an official and a visual mode, especially via the cinema, along with the backlash this has caused in a country deeply divided and scarred by the dictatorship.…”
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Understanding the Culture of 4-H by Marilyn N. Norman, Joy C. Jordan

“… Webster defines culture as the concepts, habits, skills, arts, instruments, and institutions of a given people in a given place. …”
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Analysis of Vehicle Platform Vibration Based on Empirical Mode Decomposition by Chengwu Shen, Zhiqian Wang, Chang Liu, Qinwen Li, Jianrong Li, Shaojin Liu

“…Vehicle platform vibration (VPV) directly affects the measurement accuracy of precise measuring instrument (PMI) fixed on it. In order to reduce the influences of VPV on measurement accuracy, it is necessary to perform vibration isolation between vehicle platform and PMI. …”
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ETHNOCENTRIC ATTITUDES AND BUYING DECISIONS OF POLES AND HUNGARIANS – THE ESSENCE AND MEASUREMENT WITH THE USE OF CETSCALE ANALYSIS by Andrzej Szromnik, Elżbieta Wolanin-Jarosz

“…Główny materiał źródłowy pozyskano dzięki wywiadom bezpośrednim, przeprowadzonym w dwóch miastach: Rzeszowie (Polska) oraz Debreczynie (Węgry), na próbie 800 respondentów (po 400 osób w każdym mieście). Jako instrument pomiarowy wykorzystano międzynarodowy kwestionariusz CETSCALE. …”
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Rola public relations w promocji usług w przedsiębiorstwach funkcjonujących w Polsce by Justyna Łapińska, Katarzyna Pawlak-Kołodziejska

“…W działaniach promocyjnych usług na szczególną uwagę zasługuje public relations. Jest to instrument, który wyróżnia się tym, że nie jest skierowany wyłącznie na zachowania klientów, ale dąży do wzbudzenia zainteresowania usługą i firmą, która ją świadczy oraz w dalszej kolejności do budowania długotrwałych, opartych na zaufaniu relacji. …”
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Evaluation of a bifactor model and psychometric properties of FACES III in Peruvian students by Aaron Caycho Caja, César Abraham Castilla Arias

“…Conclusion: FACES III is an instrument with consistency and internal structure problems directly associated with the presence of the Flexibility subscale as reported in previous studies.…”
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Helping Adolescents with Greater Psychosocial Needs: Subjective Outcome Evaluation Based on Different Cohorts by Daniel T. L. Shek, Tak Yan Lee

“…The subjective outcome evaluation instrument was found to be internally consistent. Multiple regression analysis revealed that perceived qualities of the program and the program implementers predicted perceived effectiveness of the program. …”
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Quelle cohérence pour la politique française de filières ? Les décalages entre la filière solidaire telle qu’elle devrait être et ce qu’elle est by Samuel Klebaner, Guillaume Assogba

“…Second, we introduce the instruments used by public authorities within the definition of filiere policies. …”
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