Thyroid carcinoma with discharging sinus – a rarity: a case report

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Requirements Engineering

Requirements Engineering (RE) aims to ensure that systems meet the needs of their stakeholders including users, sponsors, and customers. Often consid- ered as one of the earliest activities in software engineering, it has developed into a set of activities that touch almost every step of the software development process. In this chapter, we reflect on how the need for RE was first recognised and how its foundational concepts were developed. We present the seminal papers on four main activities of the RE process, namely (i) elicitation, (ii) modelling & analysis, (iii) as- surance, and (iv) management & evolution. We also discuss some current research challenges in the area, including security requirements engineering as well as RE for mobile and ubiquitous computing. Finally, we identify some open challenges and research gaps that require further exploration

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Measurement of spelling ability: construction and validation of a phonological, orthographic and morphological pseudo-word instrument for students in Grades 3-6

Building on current theoretical understandings of how children learn to spell, this paper reports the design and validation of a new pseudo-word dictation test (labelled the Components of Spelling Test: Pseudo-word version) to measure three spelling components underpinning Standard English: phonology, orthography and morphology. For the first phase of the study, the instrument was tested on a calibration sample of 381 students from Grades 3 to 6, aged between 8 and 12 years. Two versions of the test were recursively developed for Grades 3 and 4 (Pseudo-word-G-3-4) and Grades 5 and 6 (Pseudo-word-G-5-6). In the second phase of the study, the calibrated instrument was validated on a different sample of students in Grades 3 and 4 (n = 224) and Grades 5 and 6 (n = 233). The instrument shows high reliability (0.79-0.92) across the spelling components. A key feature of the instrument is that it affords three specific measures of spelling to align with Triple Word Form Theory. This instrument can be used by teachers to screen students with difficulties in spelling and resultantly plan for targeted instruction in school contexts. It can also be used as a measure of spelling ability for experimental, developmental and correlational research purposes. This novel instrument fills a gap in spelling ability research literature by providing the first pseudo-word metric to assess 8- to 12-year-old students\u27 phonological, orthographic and morphological spelling skills