this study aims at uncovering the effect(s) of genre-based instruction (gbi) on listening proficiency among iranian efl learners. moreover, it seeks to explore the relationship between effectiveness of gbi and listening proficiency. for this purpose, 68 efl learners in two different groups at zabol university were selected. group a included 30 participants (12 males and 18 females), and group b...

The aim of this study was to evaluate flossing as a diagnostic method for interproximal gingival bleeding in children. For this crossover study, 23 pre-schoolchildren presenting neither restorations nor approximal carious cavities and with at least 15% of gingival bleeding sites were selected. Examinations were performed at three different moments (3-4 days interval). Examinations comprised rep...

This study evaluated the clinical diagnosis of proximal gingivitis by comparing two methods: dental flossing and the gingival bleeding index (GBI). One hundred subjects (aged at least 18 years, with 15% of positive proximal sites for GBI, without proximal attachment loss) were randomized into five evaluation protocols. Each protocol consisted of two assessments with a 10-minute interval between...

Musical obsessions are rare in both clinical practice and literature. A case is presented of a musical obsession which had the additional unique characteristics of acute onset, marked severity, and occurrence as an isolated symptom.

Many studies have demonstrated cognitive function disorders including space learning disorders after global brain ischemia (GBI). Previous research on space perception and learning has indicated that the retrosplenial cortex (RS) is strongly involved. We performed immunostaining with doublecortin (DCX) for neurons with plasticity potential in the RS and investigated the neuronal numbers to asse...

A decision tree is an effective means of data classification from which one can obtain rules that are easy to understand. However, decision trees cannot be conventionally constructed for data which are not explicitly expressed with attribute-value pairs such as graph-structured data. We have proposed a novel algorithm, named Chunkingless Graph-Based Induction (Cl-GBI), for extracting typical pa...

Given a set of graphs with class labels, discriminative subgraphs appearing therein are useful to construct a classification model. A graph mining technique called Chunkingless Graph-Based Induction (Cl-GBI) can find such discriminative subgraphs from graph structured data. But, it sometimes happens that Cl-GBI cannot extract subgraphs that are good enough to characterize the given data due to ...

A graph mining method, Chunkingless Graph-Based Induction (Cl-GBI), finds typical patterns that appear in graph structured data by the operation called chunkingless pairwise expansion which generates pseudo-nodes from selected pairs of nodes in the data. Cl-GBI enables to extract overlapping subgraphs, while it requires more time and space complexities. Thus, it happens that Cl-GBI cannot extra...

Cruickshank and Collins [2] ‘Advancing Leadership in Sport: Time to Take Off the Blinkers?’ has created something of a furore around the effectiveness and suitability of dark leadership traits and behaviours. This paper attempts to clarify some of the conceptual issues discussed within their paper, while also redressing a number of literary misrepresentations. Finally, the potential limitations...