Talks on Teaching Literature. Arlo Bates

On Talks

What I have to say may be regarded as provocative or even insulting, but I think it needs to be said. In the history of medicine, a substantial number of lectures, seminars, and papers given at conferences and symposia-let's call them talks-are very difficult to follow, and a few are utterly incomprehensible. Very rarely is this because speakers have failed to master their subject. It is simply...

Practical Talks on Kidney Disease

Reflective Teaching: Literature Review

Recent attention has focused on the development of reflective teachers. Teacher educators have developed and used several reflective strategies, programs, and models to enhance preservice and in-service teachers' reflective abilities. The purpose of this article is to describe and comment on the different perspectives regarding theory and research on reflective teaching. This paper focused on t...

Climate change talks stumble on

At the twelfth hour of the UN climate change meeting in Cancún last month, negotiators from more than 200 countries managed to prevent the collapse of the 20-year-old climatechange-negotiating process but otherwise achieved little in concrete new moves to build on the Kyoto protocol, a legal commitment to reduce carbon emissions by some industrialised countries, which expires next year. But the...

Bates: Cottonseed Protein

The most serious feature of worldwide mal nutrition is the lack of adequate protein in quan tity or quality at a reasonable price in developing countries. The development of regional vegetable protein mixtures, such as Incaparina, is a prom ising and successful approach. Cottonseed is a logical inexpensive source of valuable protein, limited mainly by its free gossypol content and lysine destru...