Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the uptake peer vs. instructor feedback provided on written essays by undergraduates in a writing course at public university Saudi Arabia. Design/methodology/approach This was classroom intervention exploratory with 16 pairs students attending class over period 14 weeks. Findings Analysis and indicated that incorporated high rate (85.21%) revisin...

Research on written language comprehension has generally assumed that the phonological properties of a word have little effect on sentence comprehension beyond the processes of word recognition. Two experiments investigated this assumption. Participants silently read relative clauses in which two pairs of words either did or did not have a high degree of phonological overlap. Participants were ...

This study explains how Indian Buddhists accepted the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras such as Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā on basis of understandings shown in commentaries. article especially deals with “the proof authenticity Mahāyāna teachings” referred to Bhagavaty-āmnāyānusāriṇī-nāma-vyākhyā, which was written a commentary during Pāla period 12th century.

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This is my response to the commentary written by Mr James Flowers with the title of 'What is Qi?' in the issue 4 of Vol.3 (2006) of eCAM. I will explain my opinions regarding the importance of Ki research, philosophical aspects of Ki and a possible role of Ki now and in the future.

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Provided is a commentary on articles written for a special section on temperament and childhood disorders. Temperament's contributions to the development of childhood disorders are considered both generally and specifically. Questions are raised about the use of terminology in the field, particularly the term difficult. Differentiation of outcomes and predictors is discussed, with a view to ide...

Editor's Note: These short, critical reviews of recent papers in the Journal, written exclusively by graduate students or postdoctoral fellows, are intended to summarize the important findings of the paper and provide additional insight and commentary. For more information on the format and purpose of the Journal Club, please see Review of Riggall and Postle; Christophel et al.

It has recently been suggested that the nervous system employs forward models for the purpose of motor control. The evidence for this hypothetical computational structure comes from various sources, theoretical and experimental. The purpose of this commentary is to distinguish between three different structures that are used to support the forward model hypothesis: (1) output predictor, (2) sta...