OBJECTIVE To assess the knowledge of Brazilian medical students regarding medical abortion (MA) and the use of misoprostol for MA, and to investigate factors influencing their knowledge. METHODS All students from 3 medical schools in São Paulo State were invited to complete a pretested structured questionnaire with precoded response categories. A set of 12 statements on the use and effects of...

A sensitive and simple liquid chromatography/electrospray mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method for determination of gefitinib in rat plasma using one-step protein precipitation was developed. After addition of estazolam as internal standard (IS), protein precipitation by acetonitrile was used as sample preparation. Chromatographic separation was achieved on an SB-C18 (2.1 mm × 50 mm, 3.5 μm) col...

This study examined the employment outcomes of 53 AB Psychology graduates out 98 from University Southern Mindanao in Philippines between 2017 and 2020. The findings showed that 66.04% secured full-time employment, with a majority working private firms (50.94%) government organizations (13.21%), mainly Davao City. most common job role for these was an administrative assistant human resources re...

Abstract Reading strategies are seen as supportive means to help learners process and comprehend English texts effectively. The present research probed to posit a discipline-specific model of reading strategies for Iranian TEFL postgraduate students. The motive behind developing a local model of reading strategy is twofold: first, a variety of postgraduate students admitted for M.A and Ph.D. pr...

It has been well established that adequate and appropriate training is necessary for community health workers (CHWs) to effectively address the health care needs of their communities. We used qualitative analysis to evaluate a health-training curriculum in rural Guatemala in order to gain further insights into best practices regarding CHW trainings. Our results indicate that curricula aimed at ...

Morphological variation in Ephedra (Gnetales) is limited and confusing from an evolutionary perspective, with parallelisms and intraspecific variation. However, recent analyses of molecular data provide a phylogenetic framework for investigations of morphological traits, albeit with few informative characters in the investigated gene regions. We document morphological, anatomical and histologic...

H altitude or impulse response matrix I identity matrix j dummy index M Mach number R correlation coefficient S matrix of singular values STBL left stabiliser position STBR right stabiliser position t, Δt time, time step T projected state matrix multiplied by the instrument TEFL left trailing-edge flap deflection TEFR right trailing-edge flap deflection u system input vector U matrix of past or...

The present study was an attempt to investigate the validity of the English section of Iranian Universities PhD Entrance Exam in TEFL. To this end, 15 EFL learners from university of Isfahan who were in their last semester of that MA education were invited to contribute to the study. A group of 5 university lecturers were also asked to support the study as expert judges. A TOEFL reading paper w...

This study aimed at exploring the influence of the role that a teacher employs on his/her professional success. The teacher role was investigated from a new outlook, Goffman's footing theory. According to Goffman (1981), a speaker's role can be classified into three categories of animator, author, and principal, characterized as the repeater of the ideas made by the others, the paraphraser of c...