An explanatory model of academic achievement based on aptitudes, goal orientations, self-concept and learning strategies

As a result of studies examining factors involved in the learning process, various structural models have been developed to explain the direct and indirect effects that occur between the variables in these models. The objective was to evaluate a structural model of cognitive and motivational variables predicting academic achievement, including general intelligence, academic self-concept, goal orientations, effort and learning strategies. The sample comprised of 341 Spanish students in the first year of compulsory secondary education. Different tests and questionnaires were used to evaluate each variable, and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was applied to contrast the relationships of the initial model. The model proposed had a satisfactory fit, and all the hypothesised relationships were significant. General intelligence was the variable most able to explain academic achievement. Also important was the direct influence of academic self-concept on achievement, goal orientations and effort, as well as the mediating ability of effort and learning strategies between academic goals and final achievement.

Coverage and invariability in fuzzy systems

This paper presents a new complex system systemic. Here, we are working in a fuzzy environment, so we have to adapt all the previous concepts and results that were obtained in a non-fuzzy environment, for this fuzzy case. The direct and indirect influences between variables will provide the basis for obtaining fuzzy and/or non-fuzzy relationships, so that the concepts of coverage and invariability between sets of variables will appear naturally. These two concepts and their interconnections will be analyzed from the viewpoint of algebraic properties of inclusion, union and intersection (fuzzy and non-fuzzy), and also for the loop concept, which, as we shall see, will be of special importance.

Causal Maps and Indirect Influences Analysis in the Diagnosis of Second-Home Tourism Impacts

This paper proposes a method for diagnosing the impacts of second-home tourism and illustrates it for a Mediterranean Spanish destination. This method proposes the application of network analysis software to the analysis of causal maps in order to create a causal network model based on stakeholder-identified impacts. The main innovation is the analysis of indirect relations in causal maps for the identification of the most influential nodes in the model. The results show that the most influential nodes are of a political nature, which contradicts previous diagnoses identifying technical planning as the ultimate cause of problems.

The press and freedom of speech in Ukraine ahead of parliamentary elections. OSW Commentary No. 90, 2012-09-20

The independence of the mass media has been regularly restricted over the past two years in Ukraine. Following a period of relative freedom in 2005–2010, the scope of direct and indirect government control of the press has increased, cancelling out the achievements of the Orange Revolution in this area. The press in Ukraine is less and less able to perform its role as watchdog on the government and politicians and as a reliable source of information on the situation in the country to the public. This is mainly due to: (1) the concentration of the most important mass media in the hands of Ukraine’s most powerful oligarchs, whose business interests depend on the government; (2) the use of the press as instruments in political and business competition; (3) the ruling class’s subordination of the institutions which supervise the press; (4) repression used against media critical of the government and (5) the lack of an independent public broadcasting corporation. As a consequence, the press has hardly any impact on the political processes taking place ahead of the parliamentary election scheduled for 28 October. This is also an effect of a passiveness present in the Ukrainian public, who are tired of politics and are focused on social issues. Cases of abuse or corruption scandals revealed by the press do not provoke any response from the public and are rarely investigated by the public prosecution authorities. The more popular a given medium is, the more strongly it is controlled by the government. At present, television has to be recognised as the least reliable of the mass media. In turn, Internet news journals are characterised by the greatest pluralism but also have more limited accessibility. The political conditions in which the mass media operate in Ukraine lead to various forms of pathology. The most serious of them are censorship by the owners and self-censorship performed by journalists, and a great share of political advertorials. As the parliamentary election is approaching, the pathologies of the Ukrainian media market have been showing up with greater intensity.

Path integral calculation of the three-particle direct and exchange contributions to the pair distribution function and of the third virial coefficient for He4 gas /

Thesis--Illinois.

Theoretical and practical electrical engineering; comprising a course of lectures given at the Bliss Electrical School upon the principles and applications of both direct and alternating current apparatus

Mode of access: Internet.

Amalgamated clothing workers of America and Men's clothing manufacturers associations. Board of arbitration, Chicago. Hart, Schaffner & Marx labor agreement, Chicago. Cases decided by the Board of arbitration, direct and appealed, 1913-1925.

Multigraphed.

Leigh's new pocket road-book of England and Wales, containing an account of all the direct and cross roads ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Leigh's new pocket road-book of Ireland : containing an account of all the direct and cross roads, together with a description of every remarkable place ...

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 28937.

Paterson's roads; being an entirely original and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales, with part of the roads of Scotland.

Mode of access: Internet.

Cary's New itinerary: or, An accurate delineation of the great roads, : both direct and cross, throughout England and Wales; with many of the principal roads in Scotland. /

Includes indexes.

Paterson's British itinerary : being a new and accurate delineation and description of the direct and principal cross roads of Great Britain /

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 19452.1.

A new and accurate description of all the direct and principal cross roads in England and Wales ...

Master microform held by: ResP.

Cary's new itinerary : or, An accurate delineation of the great roads, both direct and cross, throughout England and Wales ; with many of the principal roads in Scotland. From an actual admeasurement by John Cary, made by command of his Majesty's Postmaster General for official purposes under the direction and inspection of Thomas Hasker ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Organizational, intermediate (field), (direct and general support), and depot maintenance repair parts and special tools list : engine, gasoline, 6 HP, military standard models, DOD model 4A032-1, 4A032-2, NSN 2805-00-776-0483, 2805-00-068-7512.

"April 1977."