Establishing science-based driving per se blood Δ9 -tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) limits is challenging, in part because of prolonged THC detection in chronic, frequent users. Therefore, documenting observable signs of impairment is important for driving under the influence of drugs. We evaluated frequent and occasional cannabis smokers' performance on the modified Romberg balance, one leg stand (...

Speaking assessment is still construed as a complicated, under-researched process from the vantage point of tasks and rater characteristics. The present study aimed at investigating if and how English Major and none English Major teachers differ in their perception of the construct of oral proficiency while assessing learners’ L2 oral proficiency.  To this end, 38 male and female non-native EFL...

This study focused on the effect of transcribing task, as a noticing activity, on EFL learners’ grammatical accuracy. For 20 sessions, oral discussion tasks were assigned to 2 intermediate adult EFL classrooms, with 1 class serving as the control group and the other as the experimental group. For this purpose, the learners were divided into groups of 3 or 4 in each class. Learners in both group...

introduction: apart from being one of the main objectives in the educational program, acquiring clinical skills is considered as a principle element of competency in a dentist. the aim of this study was to assess students’ viewpoints regarding the educational quality of clinical skills in different departments of their educational environment. methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was...

nurses opinions and practice in mouth care for icu patients under mechanical ventilation     adib hajbagari m [1] *, ansari a [2]     received: 3 apr, 2012 accepted: 25 jun , 2012     abstract:   background and aim: despite evidences on association between ventilator associated pneumonia and inadequate mouth care of mechanically ventilated patients, no studies are available on the performance o...

EEGs of extensively screened dyslexics and normal readers were recorded while they read easy and difficult texts silently and orally, and during two other verbal tasks which also differed in overt speaking but had no reading component: narrative speaking and listening to a story. Mid-temporal, central and parietal leads were referenced to linked ears and to Cz. Large differences between tasks a...

EEGs of extensively screened dyslexics and normal rcadcrs were recorded while they read easy and difficult texts silently and orally, and during two other verbal tasks which also differed in overt spcaking but had m~ reading component: narrative speaking and listening to a story. Mid-temporal, central and parietal leads were referenced to linkcd ears and to ('z. Largc differences bctwecn tasks ...

Genes code for the expression of phenotypic traits, such as behavioral (e.g., aggressiveness) and morphological (e.g., opposing thumbs) traits. Costly traits are phenotypic traits that evolved in spite of imposing a fitness cost, often in the form of a survival handicap. In non-human animals, the classic example of costly trait is the peacock’s train, used by males to signal good health to fema...