The word ‘assessment’ can strike terror into any student. However, providing evidence of knowledge and skills for professional practice is an integral and essential part of university life as a nursing student.
This book helps nursing students better understand the…

El artículo pone el énfasis en las ventajas que se derivan para la transformación pacífica de los conflictos si se tienen en cuenta las aportaciones y la
participación de las mujeres. Por esta razón, se señala cuál es la imagen…

With the rapid increase in low-cost and sophisticated digital technology the need for techniques to authenticate digital material will become more urgent. In this paper we address the problem of authenticating digital signals assuming no explicit prior knowledge of the…

Using an audiovisual perception task, two groups of native English listeners
(monolinguals, and L2 learners of Spanish) were asked to identify
which /p,t,k/ tokens had been produced by native English speakers
and which ones by foreigners. The experiment found that…

The essay is about the use of the forms el y este / ese / aquel before nouns and
adjectives which begin with stressed /a-/. General approach to this problem appears
included in the Academic Grammar very clearly, but varieties…

This paper arises from current proposals to reform the Coroner Service in England and Wales. In it, we explore the extent to which inquests offer the opportunity to increase our understanding of the situation of older people who are “found…

El siguiente proyecto documental sobre las salas de emergencia de la ciudad de Quito, ha sido filmado en los hospitales Carlos Andrade Marín y Eugenio Espejo. Este muestra los acontecimientos que ocurren en estos lugares y el ambiente que se…

In the United States, healthcare-associated infections are a huge source of medical and
economic burden. Annually, there are 1.7 million cases of healthcare-associated infection in
U.S. hospitals, which cause an estimated 98,987 deaths. Direct medical cost is also massive,
estimated…

La formation à distance (FAD) est de plus en plus utilisée dans le cadre de la formation des enseignants aux technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC). Dans les pays en voie de développement, elle permet non seulement de…

We consider the scheduling problem of minimizing the average weighted completion time of n jobs with release dates on a single machine. We first study two linear programming relaxations of the problem, one based on a time-indexed formulation, the other…