the aim of this study was to compare three approaches of medical parasitological course. this cross sectional study carried out in 94 medical and pharmacy students. lecturer based learning, problem based learning, and combined approaches were used for teaching the parasitological course. kappa and spss16 were used to analysis. 82.9% of students were interested in lecturer based learning, 64.9% ...

Non-native speakers of English far outnumber native speakers; English is the main language of books, newspapers, airports, air-traffic control, international business, academic conferences, science, technology, diplomacy, sports, international competitions, pop music, and advertising (British Council 2014). Online education in the form of massive online open courses is also primarily in English...

background: course plan is among the useful tools to improve the quality of education. this study is conducted to analyze the content of course plans presented by teachers in the school of health of mashhad university of medical sciences. methods:in this cross - sectional study, 98 out of 102 course plans of second semester of the academic year 2012-2013 were evaluated. the data was collected u...

This report gives an overview of the main ideas in Chapter 9 of the studied book, about the dimension of a variety. After recalling some definitions and basic properties about projective varieties, homogeneous ideals and Gröbner bases, we will begin our study of the dimension of a variety with the observation of a geometric way to define the dimension of a variety defined by a monomial ideal. T...

Introduction: Graduate (PhD) students in medical sciences, who will formfuture faculties and investigators in Iran’s Universities of Medical Sciences, are not trained on scientific writing during their training. The present study describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of Principles of Writing Biomedical Research Paper course.Methods: The course, prepared based on an extensive sear...

■ Abstract Legal consciousness as a theoretical concept and topic of empirical research developed to address issues of legal hegemony, particularly how the law sustains its institutional power despite a persistent gap between the law on the books and the law in action. Why do people acquiesce to a legal system that, despite its promises of equal treatment, systematically reproduces inequality? ...

John Rischard Rice is one of the founders of mathematical software as a distinct scholarly community. Trained in mathematics he spent four decades in Purdue University’s Department of Computer Sciences. During the 1970s, he convened a series of seminal conferences on the topic and established ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, which he edited for many years. Rice led development of the ...

CS245 course then covers implementation of a DBMS, notably storage structures , query processing, and transaction management. We're on a quarter system at Stanford, so the principal course using this book — CS245 — is only ten weeks long. In the Winter of 1999, Hector Garcia-Molina used a "beta" version of this book, and covered the following parts: Sections 2. The balance of Chapters 6 and 7 (...

This paper examines supervisors’ use of performance measures to update initial beliefs about employee ability over time. Using archival performance and job assignment data, we examine the weighting for promotion decisions of assessments made before employees begin working, and objective performance data collected over time. We find strong evidence that employers’ initial assessments about emplo...