WTO Reform: Back to the Past to Build for the Future

Back to the future or forward to the past?

the evaluation and comparison of two esp textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine

abstract this study evaluated and compared medical terminology and english for the students of medicine (ii) as two representatives of the textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine. this research was performed on the basis of a teacher’s and a number of students’ attitudes and the students’ needs analysis for two reasons: first, to investigate...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Back to the Future: Past, Present, and Future is COPD360.

The treatment and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have gone through significant changes over the past decade. This plenary session, part of the 2015 COPD9USA conference, examines how the diagnosis and management of COPD has become more individualized as new phenotypes have been identified. In addition, new diagnostic and management tools are evaluated and the importan...

Analysing the Stewardship Function in Botswana’s Health System: Reflecting on the Past, Looking to the Future

Background In many parts of the world, ongoing deficiencies in health systems compromise the delivery of health interventions. The World Health Organization (WHO) identified four functions that health systems need to perform to achieve their goals: Efforts to strengthen health systems focus on the way these functions are carried out. While a number of studies on health systems functions have be...