in expecting much from their joint labours. The work before us is divided into two portions, the first embracing the history, classification, statistics of insanity, is from the pen of Dr. Tuke; the remaining chapters, which treat of the diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of mental disorders, are by Dr. Bucknill. Our space will not allow us to do more than briefly refer to some of the more imp...

In recognizing the importance of educating aspiring scientists in the responsible conduct of research (RCR), the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) began sponsoring the creation of instructional resources to address this pressing need in 2002. The present guide on avoiding plagiarism and other inappropriate writing practices was created to help students, as well as professionals, identify and p...

Looking to help novice scientific writers improve their skills and enhance the likelihood of scientific publication, the IJTMB launched a writing mentorship program. Research indicates that when novice writers have a mentor and work on writing as a team, the authors can gain self-efficacy, manuscripts are improved, thoughts and writing are clarified, and differing perspectives are added. This e...

TiSi2 /Si heteronanocrystals on ultrathin oxide was fabricated with self-aligned silicidation method. Compared with Si nanocrystal memory device, TiSi2 /Si heteronanocrystal metal-oxidesemiconductor memory device shows higher writing saturation level, faster writing/erasing speed, longer retention, and larger memory window. Therefore, heteronanocrystals are very promising to replace Si nanocrys...

This paper reports findings from two empirical studies on students’ reported use of self-regulatory writing strategies and the relationships with their performance in a secondary school English as foreign language (EFL) context. Study One adopted factorial design using exploratory confirmatory factor analysis to validate inferences uses Self-Regulatory Writing Strategy Questionnaire; Two explor...

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a topic of increasing interest in the field language and instruction. In this study, we set out to investigate relationship between students' use SRL strategies second (L2) writing, their L2 writing engagement, procrastination. Data were collected from college students mainland China ( N = 816) related strategy use, for was found be an important predictor studen...

Reflecting on an important personal value in a self-affirmation activity has been shown to improve psychological functioning in a broad range of studies, but the underlying mechanisms for these self-affirmation effects are unknown. Here we provide an initial test of a novel self-compassion account of self-affirmation in two experimental studies. Study 1 shows that an experimental manipulation o...

Thanks to the development of the concept of metadiscourse, it is now widely acknowledged that academic/scientific writing is not only concerned with communicating purely propositional meanings: what is communicated through academic/scientific communication is seen to be intertwined with the negotiation of social and interpersonal meanings. While a large number of so called metadiscoursal resour...

abstract background: one of important factor in research activity of student is their credence to ability in this area. in addition, professors and lecturers acquaintance about research self-efficacy in student can play important role in researcher students. therefore, the aim at this study is to determinate rate of research self-efficacy among students of isfahan university of medical sciences...