this study intends to evaluate interchange series (2005), which are still fundamental coursebooks in the efl curriculum settings, in terms of learning objectives in bloom’s revised taxonomy (2001) to see which levels of bloom's revised taxonomy were more emphasized in these coursebooks. for this purpose, the contents of interchange textbooks were codified based on a coding scheme designed by th...

BACKGROUND Appropriate diagnostic testing involves considerations of cost-effectiveness. We examined the cost-effectiveness of individual tests in a panel of tests defined by the Japan Society of Clinical Pathology. METHODS We studied 540 new, symptomatic primary care outpatients with a set of 30 common diagnostic tests [the Essential Laboratory Tests (2); ELT(2) panel] for clinical evaluatio...

BACKGROUND Blood loss and uncontrollable bleeding are major factors affecting survival in trauma patients. Because treatment with antifibrinolytic drugs may be effective, early detection of hyperfibrinolysis with rotation thrombelastography (ROTEM may be beneficial. METHODS Eighty-seven trauma patients were included in this prospective observational study. Blood samples were collected at admi...

The widespread prevalence of dynamic tools to assess English language achievement has led burgeoning research on exploring different aspects teachers' beliefs toward Dynamic Assessment (DA). In the educational system Iran, experts and researchers who have undergone second education may verify that there is very little, if any, attention given perceptions held by instructors teachers regarding a...

many people believe that language teaching is a neutral practice. however, this belief is not without its own opponents. to many scholars, teaching languages cannot be devoid of teaching cultural values of the target language, which tacitly aims at denigrating cultural values of the community of the learners who are learning it. the ultimate purpose of such cultural oppression, according to the...

Ground-conjugate wide eld AO is presented and preliminary performance results are given, which show that signi cant seeing improvement can be achieved over 10-20 arcmin eld of view. A proposal for an ELT AO system is sketched.

Prospects for future supernova surveys are discussed, focusing on the European Space Agency's Euclid mission and the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), both expected to be in operation around the turn of the decade. Euclid is a 1.2 m space survey telescope that will operate at visible and near-infrared wavelengths, and has the potential to find and obtain multi-band lightcurves for tho...

This research study aimed at exploring the relationship between vocabulary learning strategies and vocabulary size of 125 undergraduate English Language Teaching students at Eastern Mediterranean University. This research study was a correlational survey study of descriptive nature. The major findings of this study were as follows. First, the findings indicated that most of the ELT students ade...