Patient Interaction A full medical history and examination was taken from this patient suffering from recurrent acute exacerbations of COPD and heart failure. This 79 year old female has suffered with what she describes as a bad chest for over ten years frequently experiencing dyspnoea and chest infections. She recalls suffering many exacerbations and put this down to experiencing asthma attacks. The patient admitted she had smoked 10 cigarettes a day for 64 years- a 32 pack year history. She
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president of Wyeth’s manufacturing group‚ TO&PS (Technical Operations & Product Supply)‚ decided to revolutionize the way its 17‚000 people operated. Kamarck set an ambitious goal: cut manufacturing costs by 25 percent. At the same time‚ TO&PS would need to keep improving the quality and compliance of its products‚ while finding ways to transform the capabilities‚ mindsets‚ and behaviors of its employees. By mid-2009‚ just a year and a half after Kamarck had initiated the transformation‚ TO&PS was
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This case study is based on Patricia‚ a Spanish national in her twenties who is in her last year studying an Economics degree course. She is also a student on the Elementary course at the British Language Centre. Patricia’s started learning English at the bi-lingual school she attended. She learnt English for 3 years but did not take any official examinations‚ but sees this as a possibility for the future. At school she learnt English because it was obligatory. The only other language she speaks
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Furthermore‚ ELL students are a diverse group that offers challenges and opportunities to the United States education and to the English language arts teachers in particular (“English Language Learners” 2). English Language Learners have varied level of language proficiency‚ for this ELLs are defined as the highly heterogenous and complex group of students. ELLs all come from differents background and cultures‚ most of them are hispanic such as: Mexican‚ Puerto-Rican‚ Dominican‚ Cuban‚ Peruvian
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individual needs of your learners‚ helping and supporting where appropriate.” (Gravells‚ A‚ 2008). Before any discussion it is essential for everyone to understand the terms Equality and Diversity. “Diversity is defined as valuing the differences in people whether they stem from race‚ religion‚ gender‚ sexual orientation‚ age or disability. Equality is offering each person equal rights and opportunities despite any differences”. (Gravells‚ A‚ 2008). So Equality is about the rights of learners to attend
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reviewed in order to evaluate what they have learnt or in the case of NVQs‚ how they are performing against the competencies they are required to demonstrate. I see classroom assessment as having four main purposes. The first three include: Diagnostic or needs assessment purpose: To determine what students already know so teachers can decide the topics and approaches to use. Formative purpose for teacher: To assess student knowledge or performance on some key topic or dimension to inform instructional plans
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CHARACTRISTICS OF SUCCESSFUL ONLINE LEARNERS Characteristics of Successful Online Learners Liberty University Online INFT 101 There are many characteristics for online learners. My characteristics are scared‚ overwhelmed‚ and excited all in the same breath. However there are three main characteristics found in every person‚ entry characteristics‚ participation behaviors‚ and course outcomes. Such characteristics can be broken down into
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Seattle‚ WA 98104-2499‚ USA Most deaths in intensive care units occur after decisions to limit or withdraw life support [1‚2]. Despite an extensive literature on whether to withdraw life support‚ little attention has been given to how to withdraw it [3‚4]. For example‚ a recent edition of a critical care textbook exhaustively covers the ethical and legal aspects of life-support withdrawal‚ but makes no recommendations for carrying it out [5]. Only recently‚ in the wake of growing data that problems
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TESTING AND DESIGN Literature Review Introduction In the testing and design phase‚ the website’s design has been tested using various evaluation methods. It is very important for a website to focus on the principal of evaluation for designing a website. This section outlines the approaches that have been implemented for the evaluation of the overall website design and presents the findings and conclusions of the evaluation (refer to page). This will explain the connection of the implementation
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that his greatest desire was to get his sight back. He didn’t just ask Jesus to help him‚ he asked Jesus to help him by giving him his sight. This specificity is definitely important because it shows God and Jesus that you have thought about what you need and why‚ and that you aren’t just asking them because you feel obligated or it seems like the right thing to do (Barclay‚ 304). The third message from this passage is that fully understanding every aspect of Jesus is not as important having great
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