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The spaces of "Deep Mapping": A partial account (2011)
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This article sets out an understanding of the emergent practices collectively referred to as `deep mapping'. It adopts Mike Pearson's view that the optimal deep mapping takes `region as its optic' (2006), while also recognizing the value of smaller-s... Read More about The spaces of "Deep Mapping": A partial account.

Operationalizing and measuring language dominance (2011)
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The aim of this article is to show how measures of lexical richness (Guiraud, 1954; Malvern, Richards, Chipere, & Durán, 2004) can be used to operationalize and measure language dominance among bilinguals. A typology of bilinguals is proposed based o... Read More about Operationalizing and measuring language dominance.

Language dominance in Turkish-German bilinguals: Methodological aspects of measurements in structurally different languages (2011)
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The purpose of this study is to establish measures of language dominance in bilinguals who speak structurally different languages, in our case German and Turkish, with tools that are based on fluency and oral proficiency. A 'balanced' bilingual with... Read More about Language dominance in Turkish-German bilinguals: Methodological aspects of measurements in structurally different languages.

Clinical efficiency in a simulated emergency and relationship to team behaviours: A multisite cross-sectional study (2011)
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Objective: To identify specific aspects of teamworking associated with greater clinical efficiency in simulated obstetric emergencies. Design: Cross-sectional secondary analysis of video recordings from the Simulation & Fire-drill Evaluation (SaFE) r... Read More about Clinical efficiency in a simulated emergency and relationship to team behaviours: A multisite cross-sectional study.

Phenomenology and its application in medicine (2011)
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Phenomenology is a useful methodology for describing and ordering experience. As such, phenomenology can be specifically applied to the first person experience of illness in order to illuminate this experience and enable health care providers to enha... Read More about Phenomenology and its application in medicine.

Transfer of conceptualization patterns in bilinguals: The construal of motion events in Turkish and German (2011)
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In the present article we provide evidence for the occurrence of transfer of conceptualization patterns in narratives of two German-Turkish bilingual groups. All bilingual participants grew up in Germany, but only one group is still resident in Germa... Read More about Transfer of conceptualization patterns in bilinguals: The construal of motion events in Turkish and German.

QuesTInSitu: From tests to routes for assessment in situ activities (2011)
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School based working memory training: Preliminary finding of improvement in children's mathematical performance (2011)
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Working memory is a complex cognitive system responsible for the concurrent storage and processing of information. Given that a complex cognitive task like mental arithmetic clearly places demands on working memory (e.g., in remembering partial resul... Read More about School based working memory training: Preliminary finding of improvement in children's mathematical performance.

QTIMaps: A model to enable web maps in assessment (2011)
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Test-based e-Assessment approaches are mostly focused on the assessment of knowledge and not on that of other skills, which could be supported by multimedia interactive services. This paper presents the QTIMaps model, which combines the IMS QTI stand... Read More about QTIMaps: A model to enable web maps in assessment.