Metacognitive knowledge is a critical piece of the information literacy puzzle. In a world of exploding information and communications possibilities, the difficulty for users of information systems and services may not lie in finding information but in filtering and integrating…

2008, Suplemento. Edição do IX International Congress of Plant Pathology, 2008, Torino. Abstracts on invited and offered papers.

2008, Edição do IX International Congress of Plant PathologyLOGY, 2008, Torino. Abstracts on invited and offered papers.

2008, Suplemento. Edição do IX International Congress of Plant PathologyLOGY, 2008, Torino. Abstracts on invited and offered papers.

2008, Sulemento. Edição do IX International Congress of Plant Pathology, 2008, Torino. Abstracts on invited and offered papers.

This study explored the information needs of rehabilitation therapists (occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech-language pathologists) working with patients with stroke, to characterize their clinical questions, that is, their formalized information needs. This study also investigated how rehabilitation therapists decide whether…

Objective: Despite the established effectiveness of medication in improving symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Spencer et al 2000), rates of adherence to pharmacotherapy are low, ranging from 34% to 91% (Gau et al., 2006). Since higher adherence rates are…

This dissertation explores the socio-cultural implications of content and context in Vygotsky's theory of the private speech of young children (Vygotsky, 1986). While private speech has long been thought to hold a snapshot of the child in cognitive transition, the…

Invasive research procedures, such as biopsy for pharmacodynamic study, often have no value for patient-volunteers in terms of diagnosis or clinical management. Accordingly, their burdens are generally justifiable only by appeal to knowledge value (that is, the benefit to future…

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