Pedagogical Content Knowledge: Should We Keep it Alive?

GPs and hospital expenditures. Should we keep expenditure containment programs alive?

Pay-for-Performance programs offering additional payments to GPs can be used not only to improve the quality of care but also for cost containment purposes. In this paper, we analyse the impact of removing financial incentives in primary care that were aimed at containing hospital expenditure in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna during the period 2002-2004. Our analysis draws on regional dat...

Autophagy Mechanisms for Brain Recovery. Keep It Clean, Keep It Alive

Most neurological pathologies that afflict humans are associated with the abnormal accumulation and aggregation of specific proteins into the cytoplasm and with mitochondrial dysfunction. Neuronal health is sustained by the fine regulation of protein synthesis and organelle biogenesis and their degradation to ensure efficient turnover. Autophagy is a powerful process for removing such proteins ...

Erythema nodosum :what should we consider about it?

EFL Teacher Education in Iran: Does It Promote Trainees’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge?

Teacher education programs can play a principal role in helping prospective teachers to acquire requisite knowledge and skills. Vital to the issue of teacher education is the efficient evaluation of such programs in promoting prospective teachers’ knowledge base. However, the literature contains very few reports of the evaluation of the Iranian EFL preservice teacher education program, which is...

"If we can keep a severed head alive...".

not be a matter for criticism. The aim of the new society is to provide an alternative to the existing bodies, not to replace them, and nor is it to disadvantage any other elements of the profession. In his review of my book (3 September, p 629) Professor T J Hamblin stated, "In [Fleming's] view a device to perfuse a human head might lead to horrific consequences, and so he has developed a fien...