in most general and special english courses of the iranian universities, reading comprehension is the main component of the syllabus. nonetheless, in an attempt to improve listening and speaking skills, some general english courses were accompanied by oral presentations, according to which each student had to give a lecture lasting for nearly 10 minutes. the main objective was to investigate th...

introduction: note taking while attending a ppt requires high activity of memory and writing process which ultimately leads to what is called “death by power point” referring to boredom and fatigue. to overcome this we planned to evaluate the impact of utilisation of uncompleted handouts given prior to ppt presentations. methods: final year mbbs students were divided in 2 batches, batch a and b...

studies conducted in iran indicated dissatisfaction of many students of dentistry in acquiring sufficient skill to carry out therapeutical procedures. the present study was aimed to analyze the effect of short lectures on promoting the knowledge of interns in endodontic course. in this quasi-experimental study, the knowledge and skill of the experimental group (teaching via short lectures) and ...

These are my notes for an April 24, 2006 lecture given at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute on the subject of period-index problems. This is true in a literal sense: there is another, significantly more detailed, writeup available which was pared down to yield the current version. (So if you are seriously interested in these matters, you will want to be reading the other version inst...