Crisis in foreign language expertise in research libraries: How do we fill this gap?

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The purpose of this article is to explore students' experiences of variations in practice and how this impacts on their learning. This is particularly pertinent in terms of reconfiguration of services instigated by the Department of Health's (DH) Making it better agenda (DH 2007), meaning that many qualified staff are moving hospitals and also experiencing changes in practice. Students are thus...

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

How Do We Deal with Research Misconduct?

To the Editor: How Do We Solve This Confusion?

Call for Correspondence JNCCN is committed to providing a forum to enhance collaboration between academic medicine and the community physician. We welcome comments about the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines), articles published in the journal, or any other topic relating to cancer prevention, detection, treatment, supportive care, or survivorship. Please send corre...

Financial Regulation after the Crisis: How Did We Get Here, and How Do We Get Out?

Following the global financial crisis of 2007–09, regulatory authorities either are or should be engaging in a fundamental reconsideration of how they approach financial regulation and supervision. This paper briefly summarizes the present international consensus on regulation as embodied in the Basel framework. It looks at how we came to be in such a situation, and proposes a restart of the pr...