Editor’s Note: Every departing Medical Student, Graduate Student, Urology Research Resident, and Post-Doctoral Fellow trained in Dr. Donald S. Coffey’s laboratory or classroom for 4 decades has been given this “real final exam”—in either oral, written, or both forms. Some believe the wisdom in it passed on to the next generations of cancer researchers is as vast and generous and dedicated to th...

This document was prepared for Dr. John Loomis as part of the written PhD. candidacy exam by Timothy R. Tuinstra. This report provides a look at the automatic detection and decoding of barcodes found within imagery. Such techniques could conceivably be used in the retail, manufacturing, inventory and travel industries as well as others. A general description of barcodes is included as well as a...

This paper describes the concept for a Webbased, database supported e-Learning Test, Examination and Assessment System, called TEASE, that can be used via the Internet and is therefore suitable for both local and remote examination preparation as well as for examination within lab courses (entry test) or during lectures (big online exams in lecture halls). Another topic of this contribution is ...

background helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infection usually occurs during childhood, especially in developing countries. the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of h. pylori infection among children in primary schools of rasht, a northern iranian city. methods this cross-sectional study was conducted among 961 primary school students in rasht. samples were randomly selected and st...

OBJECTIVE To assess the quality of clinical care at first clinic attendance in children with suspected epilepsy from a defined geographical population. METHOD All hospital- and community-based consultant paediatricians in Nottingham City region, UK, were asked to collaborate with a retrospective clinical audit identifying children seen between January 2001 and March 2002. The British Paediatr...

Nominalization is a very universal phenomenon in English written language as well as other languages. It has compact relations with written texts that it becomes one of important components in the formal style writing such as technical writing or legal writing. However, this does not mean that we should use as many nominalizations as possible in formal written texts. Overuse of nominalization i...

INTRODUCTION Assessment of medical students' knowledge in clinical settings is complex yet essential to the learning process. Clinical clerkships use various types of written examinations to objectively test medical knowledge within a given discipline. Within emergency medicine (EM), a new national standardized exam was developed to test medical knowledge in this specialty. Evaluation of the ps...

this research study aimed at investigating whether using peer-provided feedbacks rather than teacher-provided comments would result in any significance difference in iranian english undergraduate students’ ability in writing. in so doing, based on a pretest (an opt & a writing exam), 40 subjects were assigned to two homogeneous groups of equal number the subjects in the control group received m...

This study aims to provide an analysis of TOEFL results and examine the challenges faced by non-English program students when tackling exam questions. The adopts a descriptive qualitative approach, with sample size 30 selected through purposive sampling from larger population 100 students. Data collection involved administration tests conducting interviews. findings indicate that among differen...