Expanding the academic platter…

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

Felix Platter: a sixteenth-century medical student.

Correction: Indian Plant Germplasm on the Global Platter: An Analysis

There is an error in the fifth sentence of the Abstract. It should read: A total of 2,802,770 accessions are being conserved worldwide by 446 organizations represented in Genesys. There are errors in Table 1. Please see the corrected Table 1 here. Copyright: © 2015 Jacob et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits ...

Expanding Academic Vocabulary with an Interactive On-line Database

University students used a set of existing and purpose-built on-line tools for vocabulary learning in an experimental ESL course. The resources included concordance, dictionary, cloze-builder, hypertext, and a database with interactive self-quizzing feature (all freely available at www.lextutor.ca). The vocabulary targeted for learning consisted of (a) Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List, a lis...

Academic Views of Capital Flows: An Expanding Universe

Recent crises in emerging markets have generated a fundamental re-appraisal of theoretical models of international capital flows. It is now generally recognised that crises have occurred in circumstances that cannot be explained by first generation models of speculative attacks that seemed quite acceptable only a few years ago. First generation models (Krugman 1979; Flood and Garber 1980) and t...