This study examined the reflective journal entries of 42 trainee teachers who underwent teaching practicum in schools in Malaysia. The study investigated the types of reflections, strategies or stance used, and perceptions of the trainees toward reflective journal writing. The findings of the study indicated that the trainee teachers were engaged in Descriptive Reflection (DR), Dialogic Reflect...

Acquired hemophilia (AH) is a rare disease with an estimated prevalence of 1.48 cases/million people/year and a mortality rate of 9-22%, according to data obtained in the United Kingdom in a hemophilia surveillance study [1]. Unlike congenital hemophilia, in which the presentation is exclusive to men, AH has no gender bias. It is characterized by the occurrence of spontaneous bleeding in differ...

The aim of the present study is investigate that the effectiveness of a teaching method which is based on subjective well-being increasing activities and engagement increasing activities, has been developed for university students in the present study. The method of the present study is a mixed method. Thus, the most important feature of it has been considered experimental method that includes ...

Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder which has emerged as a global public health threat in the present century. The present oral hypoglycemic agents produce undesirable side effects and oxidative stress. Thus there is a need for a safe, cost effective and complementary therapy for Diabetes mellitus. To evaluate the Nitric oxide scavenging activity and Alpha amylase inhibitory activity of P...

Cultural differences between Asia and the West and their influence on teaching, are reviewed along with previous experiments in bringing critical thinking to Asian education, and recognition of needs for and barriers to achieving change. Principles driving design and implementation of a two-course sequence in professional transportation studies are presented. Asian students were cast as teacher...

The problem addressed in this research is to evaluate the two protein secondary structure methods (neural networks and support vector machines) and then make a comparison among both the methods. From the experimental results which are obtained from the quantitative comparison of Neural Network and Support Vector Machine for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction we can conclude that, when given...

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Coumarins are a class of compounds with benzopyrone ring system. In the present work 7-hydroxy-4-methyl coumarin was prepared by the reaction of resorcinol and ethylacetoacetate mixture in the presence of concentrated sulphuric acid. 7-hydroxy-4-methyl coumarin was acetylated with acetic anhydride in the presence of acetic acid. The product formed was treated with bromine in glacial acetic acid...