The concept of language learning using technology has allowed both language instructors and learners to explore the effectiveness of the online learning approach. Such computermediated activities provide an online platform for ESL learners to further practise their language skills as their face-to-face contact learning hours are rather limited. Limited contact learning hours have an impact on E...

PURPOSE Although the quality of life (QoL) of prostate cancer (PCa) patients is a major issue, there is no unified and useful methodology for assessing QoL. The Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite (EPIC) is a globally used tool to measure QoL after PCa treatment that comprises urinary, bowel, sexual, and hormonal domains. Acknowledging the need for such a tool applicable to Korean PCa pati...

neo-classical sonnet, created out of iran’s classic poetry, is one of the contemporary poetic movements which have always been dynamic. the purpose of its leading poets was to make the traditional form of sonnet attuned with modern requirements. this poetic movement has benefited the poetic possibilities of which free verse has provided for persian poetry in terms of locution, language and lite...

Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) are established means for institutions to improve patient outcomes while reducing the emergence of resistant bacteria. With the increased adoption and evolution of electronic medical records (EMRs), there is a need to assimilate the tools of ASPs into EMRs, using decision support and feedback. Third-party software vendors provide the mainstay for integr...

BACKGROUND There is some evidence that Mediterranean diet reduces risk of ischemic heart disease, and this is to be investigated in the Spanish cohort of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). In this paper we present the incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in four EPIC Spanish cohorts. METHOD Incidence cases were ascertained in EPIC cohort during ...

 To achieve performance, Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) systems take the responsibility of extracting instruction-level parallelism (ILP) from the hardware and give it to the compiler. They expose a large part of the hardware control at the conventional machine level. Dynamically Trace Scheduled VLIW (DTSVLIW) systems, on the other hand, leave the responsibility of extracting...

The article covers the issue of teaching Alisher Navoi’s epic “Farhad and Shirin” in higher educational institutions based on modern technologies. New effective methods for works have been developed. In particular, “kun bayti” technology aimed at attracting student’s attention, conceptual tables comparison, drawings bring student closer to work a certain extent during course lesson. Describing ...

We investigate the effectiveness of using an accepted readability index, the Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) scale, to design prompts for an automatic oral proficiency assessment system. The prompts in question are uttered by the system, and must be repeated from memory by the test subjects, in the form of an elicited imitation exercise. The FRE scores for our prompts are shown to correlate well with...

Reading fiction is a major component of intellectual life, yet it has proven difficult to study experimentally. One aspect of literature that has recently come to light is perspective embedding ("she thought I left" embedding her perspective on "I left"), which seems to be a defining feature of fiction. Previous work (Whalen et al., 2012) has shown that increasing levels of embedment affects th...

Two studies investigated whether there is a direct relation between children’s reading comprehension, their knowledge about the goals and processes of reading, and their skill in applying such knowledge. An interview revealed that less skilled comprehenders differed from same-age skilled comprehenders in their knowledge about reading and reading strategies, but they did not differ signiŽcantly ...