THE SPECIALIST

Addressing the Dilemma in ESP Teaching: The English Language Teacher or the Subject-matter Specialist?

Teaching English for Specific Purposes (TESP) has been a controversial issue among EFL teachers and others. The question raised by many is whether the English language instructor or the subject-matter specialist should teach ESP courses. The main purpose of the present study was to re-address this issue. To this end, 60 second-year students majoring in Feqh and Islamic Law at Islamic Azad Unive...

The Nursing Specialist Group

Medical software tools began to emerge during the 1980's, some became known as 'expert systems'. In contrast to conventional software which process data, expert systems process 'knowledge'. For this reason, expert systems are also called ‘Knowledge Based Systems' (KBS). The most well known medical example is MYCIN.' This expert system was developed at Stanford University in 1976 to aid physicia...

The role of the specialist nurse.

Heart failure is growing in incidence as a result of the aging of the population and of improved survival from myocardial infarction. However, quality of life is poor among patients with heart failure, and has shown to be worse than in most chronic conditions. These patients often have a poor prognosis—around 50% of those with severe heart failure will die within the first year. Since this is a...

The general practitioner and the specialist.

The specialist neurologist and the "new genetics".

The "new genetics" will require specialist physicians to deal with an increasing number of genetic issues. Huntington disease (HD) is a rare single gene adult-onset fatal neurodegenerative disorder. It provides a model to illustrate the role of the specialist physician in the new genetics. DNA testing options in HD include diagnostic DNA tests to confirm a provisional diagnosis, and predictive ...