Improving listening comprehension skill is one of the urgent contemporary educational needs in the field of second language acquisition and metacognitive strategies are proved to help learners manage and self-regulate their listening and overcome deficiencies. Although metacognitive instruction is underscored by previous research, task-based metacognitive instruction is seriously underresearche...

Approximately 25% of all oral cavity carcinomas involve the lips, and the primary management of these lesions is complete surgical resection. Loss of tissue in the lips after resection is treated with a variety of techniques, depending on the extension and location of the defect. Here we review highly accepted techniques of lip reconstruction and some of new trials with significant clinical ...

The use of a VME-bus-based transputer network as a parallel processing engine for positron volume imaging (PVI) is discussed. The authors find that the speedups of parallel networks depend on two major factors, the ratio of computation to communication for a task and the size of the task, and give a simple model to explore the limits on speedups. Through actual implementation it is shown that r...

| All known constructions of information theo-retic tout of -n secret sharing schemes require secure, private communication channels among the parties for the reconstruction of the secret. In this work we investigate the cost of performing the reconstruction over public communication channels. A naive implementation of this task distributes 2n ? 2 one times pads to each party. This results in s...

introduction: the aim of this study was to assess of both implicit and explicit motor sequence learning in children with attention deficit hyper activity disorder (adhd) and typical peers , by serial reaction time task. materials and methods: the sample size for each group was 12. the study sample was included 24 children with adhd, in explicit learning group and implicit learning group.  and 2...

Purpose: This two-phased study sought to develop (Phase I) and test (Phase II) BPMED, a text message system to improve medication adherence in African Americans with uncontrolled Hypertension (HTN). Scope: In the US, almost 78 million adults ≥20 years of age have hypertension (HTN), a key risk factor for heart disease and stroke. HTN is a condition in which there exists tremendous health dispar...

BACKGROUND Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries are significant injuries in elite-level basketball players. In-game statistical performance after ACL reconstruction has been demonstrated; however, few studies have reviewed functional performance in National Basketball Association (NBA)-caliber athletes after ACL reconstruction. PURPOSE To compare NBA Combine performance of athletes after...

background: articular cartilage injuries are a common clinical problem at the time of acl reconstruction with an incidence rate of 16-46%. good results of acl reconstruction combined with the treatment of chondral lesions have been published in some studies. method: after statistical analysis 30 patients were selected and divided in 2 groups. theffirst group consisted of 15 patients wite isolat...