This study attempted to investigate writing problems and the relationship between expert-assessment and self-assessment of writing problems. Participants were thirty four non-English faculty members of Tehran and Guilan universities. The instruments were writing an essay on the topic "What teaching strategies do you use in your classes?" in twenty five lines and filling the questionnaire of wri...

This study examined the relationship of the personality factors (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism) with each of the three workaholism components i.e. working compulsively, working excessively and combined workaholics. As the study is of exploratory in nature, a sample of 145 academicians was drawn from the two universities of Jammu region (India), namel...

402 P&T® • July 2006 • Vol. 31 No. 7 Digestive Disease Week is the largest international gathering of physicians, researchers, and academicians in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy, and gastrointestinal surgery. Jointly sponsored by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Society for Gastrointestina...

The International Conference on Women’s Health and Infectious Diseases, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and partners, will be held at the Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia, February 27–28, 2004. Intended for clinicians, scientists, women’s health advocates, health educators, public health workers, academicians, and representatives from all levels of government...

In recent years, ethics has drawn increased interest from information technology and computer science practitioners as well as from academicians. This article investigates the issues outlined in the PAPA framework in today’s environment and explores the possibility that new issues have emerged. Findings indicate that the ethicality of property misuse may be viewed differently based on the level...

The articular facets on the inferior aspect of the occipital condyles, articulate with the superior articular facets of the first cervical (atlas) vertebra, to form the atlanto-occipital joint. The present case, reports the asymmetrical dimensions of the facets on the occipital condyles of a human dried skull. The anatomico-radiological study of asymmetrical articular facets on the occipital co...

Cellular communication has a tremendous growth in recent years. Capacity enhancement becomes an important topic of discussion. Both researchers and academicians have been recognized the need of capacity enhancement of cellular system in a sustained manner. In this paper, various techniques to enhance the capacity of cellular system have been discussed. The various performance metrics like cell ...

I still prefer to consider myself a young academic turk. Nonetheless, the graying hair and beard that confront me in the mirror each morning—both easily discernible without eyeglasses—suggest otherwise. Rather than bemoan my journey to decrepitude, I choose to embrace my self-declared elder-statesman status by exploiting the one accommodation typically extended to senior academicians: to commen...

In Thailand, alcohol and baker’s yeast production are the large scale industry that employ pure yeast culture in the process. In the future, there is a potential to employ yeasts in other industries such as single cell protein production and production of novel products from the genetically engineered yeasts. Up to now, the local industry and academicians are attempting to develop new technolog...

This paper attempts to highlight the role of bibliometrics in studying the dynamics of science and technology. Tools and techniques available in bibliometrics to address and understand the complexities of scientific fields are explored. The paper concludes that for wider acceptance among academicians and policy makers, bibliometric approach should ingrain itself within sociology and philosophy ...