Case Studies in Social Medicine — Attending to Structural Forces in Clinical Practice

efl teachers job satisfaction and social capital in relation to students’ motivation

abstract this mixed method study examines whether there is any relationship among the variables of the study (job satisfaction, social capital and motivation). the researcher considered job satisfaction and social capital as independent variables; motivation is the dependent variable of the study. the researcher applied a questionnaire to assess each variable. to measure efl teachers’ job sati...

willingness to communicate in the iranian context: language learning orientation and social support

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Studies in Clinical Medicine

Studies in Clinical Medicine

The volume before us consists of a collection of papers published at various times in the medical journals, together with a selection of clinical lectures delivered presumably at the Polyclinic in London. They cover a very wide range of subjects, the first place being given to rheumatoid arthritis and its manifold manifestations. The author has devoted a great deal of energy and research, not o...

Diving medicine in clinical practice.

BACKGROUND Diving is a popular sport, and some recreational divers have medical risk factors. Their health can be endangered by high extracorporeal (ambient) pressure and its many systemic effects. METHODS We review relevant publications on free (breath-hold) diving, scuba diving, medical evaluation for diving, barotrauma, decompression sickness, and diving with medical risk factors, which we...