Clip-on questions

the effects of cooperative versus individual directed reading thinking activities on students inferential and referential questions

two groups of students were assigned as experimental and control ones, and were given instruction on directed reading-thinking activities and after some treatment, they were post-tested. although the initial pre-test did not show any significant differences, the final post-test result revealed that the cooperative reading comprehension helped the experimental group. the cooperative students’...

The Comparative Study of Microsurgical Cerebral Aneurysm Clip Implants; Titanium Clip vs. Stainless Steel Clip

OBJECTIVE To perform a comparative study between two groups of populations, titanium (T) group versus stainless steel (S) group, who were clipped with titanium and stainless steel materials, respectively, the incidence of regrowth from the original aneurysms, the clip slippage, and post-clipping seizure attack were analyzed. The patients were followed more than 5 years after microsurgical cereb...

To clip or not to clip? Noseclips for spirometry.

The use of noseclips for open-circuit spirometry is sporadic, despite guidelines encouraging their use. The authors aimed to evaluate whether noseclips significantly affected measurements of forced vital capacity (FVC) and forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) in children attending a tertiary, paediatric respiratory centre. Children attending the asthma and cystic fibrosis (CF) clinics ...

Questions on biofuels

of FITs, Q-cells became one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe, and is now the second largest manufacturer of photovoltaic cells in the world, surpassed only by the Japanese electronics giant Sharp. And this growth continues unabated. For the first quarter of 2007, Q-cells reported a 43 per cent year-on-year increase in sales, and a 45 per cent increase in production. The output stands ...

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