ANALYSIS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES FOR SEVERELY PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS BY MEANS OF HEART RATE DURING A 24-HOUR PERIOD

Pregnancy in a severely mentally handicapped adult.

What happens when we discover that a severely mentally handicapped girl, resident under our care, is heavily pregnant? What options are open to us in her management? What are the legal and ethical issues involved? How do we ensure that she receives the best possible care and protection and will the involvement of the police actually make the situation worse? Few of us have had the experience of...

a comparative move analysis of the introduction sections of ma theses by iranian and native post-graduate students

since esp received universal attention to smooth the path for academic studies and productions, a great deal of research and studies have been directed towards this area. swales’ (1990) model of ra introduction move analysis has served a pioneering role of guiding many relevant studies and has proven to be productive in terms of helpful guidelines that are the outcome of voluminous productions ...

exploring motivation and english test preparation strategies of iranian pre-university candidates during and at the end of test preparation period for konkur examination

the current study aimed at investigating the relationship between motivation and test preparation strategies (tpss) used by iranian pre-university students in their preparation period for the university entrance exam (uee). due to the importance of uee in iran, this study also attempted to show its impact on these two important variables. to this end, 100 pre-university students in an iranian p...

On sterilising severely mentally handicapped people.

At the time of writing, the House of Lords in England had not ruled in the case ofJeanette-a seventeen-year-old with allegedly the skills of at most a five or six-year-old whose mother and gynaecologist wished to perform probably irreversible sterilisation by an operation to tie her fallopian tubes (1). Whatever the legal decision, the ethical issues underlying decisions of this kind deserve an...

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