In 2013, Canadian scholars delivered a 1-week workshop to 30 junior public health professionals in Rwanda. The goal was to improve the Rwandans' skills and confidence with respect to writing scientific papers for submission to international peer-reviewed global health journals. As a result of the workshop, there was a statistically significant improvement in participants' reported confidence in...

There are differences in the way infants learn, perceive, and understand the environment as compared to adults (Bornstein, 1989; Nelson, 2000; Craik and Bialystok, 2006). While an adult has an established, clear perception of his environment, infants are still forming perceptions of the world (Hall et al., 1989; Holt, 1991; Zitelli and Davis, 2007). The mechanisms underlying these differences a...

Novel experience and learning new skills are known as modulators of brain function. Advances in non-invasive brain imaging have provided new insight into structural and functional reorganization associated with skill learning and expertise. Especially, significant imaging evidences come from the domains of sports and music. Data from in vivo imaging studies in sports and music have provided vit...

This paper examines how, over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the appreciation of skill in surgery shifted in characteristic ways. Skill is a problematic category in surgery. Its evaluation is embedded into wider cultural expectations and evaluations, which changed over time. The paper examines the discussions about surgical skill in a variety of contexts: the highly...

Speaking is the process of building and sharing meaning through use verbal non-verbal symbols, in a variety contexts. Low motivation speaking will be formidable reality for teacher. The students are often reluctant to speak because they shy not predisposed express themselves front other people, especially when being asked give personal information or opinions. type this research ethnography (re...

This study was aimed at finding out whether or not English movie can improve students’ speaking skills. conducted by using Classroom Action Research. The population and the sample were first grade students of AMIK Medicom in 2022/2023 academic year. research applied quantitative qualitative methods. results showed improvements. students' scores improved from cycle 1 to 2. In pre-test, mean scor...