OBJECTIVES Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an increasingly important endpoint in prostate cancer care. However, pivotal issues that are not fully assessed in existing HRQOL instruments include irritative urinary symptoms, hormonal symptoms, and multi-item scores quantifying bother between urinary, sexual, bowel, and hormonal domains. We sought to develop a novel instrument to facilita...

OBJECTIVE To assess the validity of the food-frequency questionnaire used in the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC FFQ) for estimating nutrient intake in an adolescent population. DESIGN Sixty-seven schoolchildren (mean age: 12.3 +/- 0.3 years) were recruited to complete a 7-day weighed dietary record (7-day WDR), the EPIC FFQ and supply one 24-hour urine collection. SETTIN...

This paper describes a method of integrating remotely sensed data (the MODIS LAI product) with an ecosystem model (the spatial EPIC model) to estimate crop yield in North China. The traditional productivity simulations based on crop models are normally sitespecific. To simulate regional crop productivity, the spatial crop model is developed firstly in this study by integrating Geographical Info...

the scattered stories, due to the way they are put together in the shahnameh, show a thoughtful and systematic pattern and tell more than what they have in their appearance. according to the tradition of the shahnameh research, the book is divided into the following sections: mythical, heroic, and historical. although clear lines do not indicate this classification, the interval and overlapping...

Over the last 15 years, researchers have become increasingly interested in children’s motivation to read. Because reading is an exigent activity that often involves choice, motivation is crucial to reading engagement. The purpose of this case study was to investigate student attitudes toward reading at summer reading clinic through an urban teaching college in upstate New York. It was hypothesi...

In this paper, we illustrate the successful implementation of pre-class reading assignments through a social learning platform that allows students to discuss the reading online with their classmates. We show how the platform can be used to understand how students are reading before class. We find that, with this platform, students spend an above average amount of time reading (compared to that...

banugoshasb-nameh is a national epic poem written in imitation of ferdowsi's shahnameh about banugoshasb's life and courage, daughter of rostam. the poem, the only epic in persian literature is the central story of a heroic woman. most researchers, who have studied this poem, have focused on the presence of banugushasb in the context of epic and her heroism. they sometimes related her...

Abstract József Péczeli (1750–1792), a Calvinist minister educated at some of the outstanding German, Swiss and Dutch centres knowledge, is mostly known for his editorial publishing activities, including translations Voltaire’s dramas epic works. However, this paper meant to analyze issues calling absolution as presented in “Moral Semons” edited published by “erudite Révkomárom”. It argues that...

this paper reviews the elegy themes of imam hussein (as) in the epic of ‘eid ghadir’ composed by christian poet boolos salama, and begins with the introduction of the ashura literature and especially poetry surrounding imam hussein. this article talks about the laborious life of poet and his compilations especially his great islamic epic, which is famous in the field of literature, and also tal...

A s a director of a university diagnostic reading clinic, I see children of all ages who, for one reason or another, are making poor progress in learning to read. Our job in the reading clinic is to determine the nature and source of the child’s reading problem and suggest (and implement) instructional interventions for helping the child improve. Often the children we see in our clinic demonstr...