introduction: feedback cards are recommended as a feasible tool for structured written feedback delivery in clinical education while effectiveness of this tool on the medical students’ performance is still questionable. the purpose of this study was to compare the effects of structured written feedback by cards as well as verbal feedback versus verbal feedback alone on the clinical performance ...

Motor symptoms are cardinal clinical features of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Progress in drug therapy and rehabilitation has been presenting beneficial effect for motor symptoms. However, non-motor symptoms and signs in PD have been accumulated growing attentions and its amelioration may also give beneficial effect for PD patients’ and their care givers’ quality of life. In this mini-review, I ov...

The neurodegenerative diseases are a major focus of scientific and clinical interest because of their increasing medical and social importance. The neurodegenerative diseases represent some of the greatest challenges for basic science and clinical medicine because of their prevalence, cost, complex biochemistry and pathology, and lack of mechanism-based treatments. These diseases have great imp...

L2 written corrective feedback has been investigated from different perspectives in SLA research (e.g. Ahmadian & Tajabadi, 2015; Bitchener & Knoch, 2010; Ferris, 2006). Taking the cognitive and sociocultural paradigms into account, the aims of the current study are twofold: Firstly, it attempts to find if corrective feedback is effective in improving the linguistic accuracy of L2 learners' ten...

I f laughter is contagious, it is one germ care givers and patients at many Catholic hospitals are trying to catch and pass on. Humor's healing potential was recognized as far back as the Old Testament: "A joyful heart is the health of the body, but a depressed spirit dries up the bones" (Prv 17:22). Humor is also an effective means of breaking down barriers. As pianist and humorist Victor Borg...

tary hospital is a charity, and that it deals with two classes of the public?those who support the charity and those who benefit by the charity?the givers and the receivers. And these two classes have been kept apart, at any rate officially. It has always been recognised that the giver gives, not for his own good, but for someone else's, and that the receiver receives because someone else has p...

Keyword Spotting is a well-known method in document image retrieval. In this method, Search in document images is based on query word image. In this Paper, an approach for document image retrieval based on keyword spotting has been proposed. In proposed method, a framework using relevance feedback is presented. Relevance feedback, an interactive and efficient method is used in this paper to imp...

In the face of decreasing returns on investments and growing influence sustainability requirements, foundations have had to adjust way they invest their assets. Sustainable shown themselves be as robust in terms conventional and—more than that—they can support foundations’ goals much more effectively. But only very few implement sustainable investment strategies. The present study analyses reas...

Congenitally defective metabolic pathways adversely affect the quality of life of patients as well as their care givers. Early diagnosis is therefore vital. Frequently, radio-imaging alone raises a strong suspicion and sometimes even provides conclusive evidence of defective metabolic pathways, when the patient presents with signs and symptoms that clinically fail to lead to a definitive diagno...