BACKGROUND Medical students and doctors are becoming better prepared to care for patients with palliative care needs and support patients at the end of life. This preparation needs to start at medical school. OBJECTIVE To assess how medical students learn about death, dying and palliative care during a clinical placement using reflective essays and to provide insights to improve medical educa...

Hedges, as tools to express tentativeness and doubt, have been studied in plenty of research papers in the Iranian EFL research setting. However, their use in a learner corpus, portraying Iranian learner English, is in need of more research attention. With this end in view, this study aimed at investigating how Iranian EFL learners who have majored in English-related fields in Iran deployed hed...

The name of Kant, a German philosopher (1724-1804) is immortal in the history of modern western Philosophy. Prime reason for this has been his simple life of abstinence and continuous ethical thinking. He lived a much disciplined life. He is believed to have practiced his routine life more strictly than the watch itself. From waking up in the morning to going to the bed at night, every minute o...

persian-hebrew texts are written in hebrew orthography. their records go back to the period before the essential books about drugs’ nature, the first persian text in arabic orthography by abu mansour mowaffaq herawi which was inscribed by assadi tousi in 447 a.h. therefore, it seems very important to scrutinize such texts for the study of persian language. one of the most important samples of p...

from effects of the financial crisis. Precise data sources are given in the appendix. Time series plots for the accession country data series are given in Figures 2.1-2.4. It is obvious from Figures 2.1-2.4 that at least some variables show trending behaviour. A unit root analysis (results not shown) indicates that the unit root hypothesis cannot be rejected for the all the considered time seri...