Viewpoint: The Practice Visit — An Obituary

Ethics in surgical practice: an Indian viewpoint.

It is a matter of concern that medicine all over the world is often practised without proper and strict ethical controls and monitoring. A survey of surgical opinions on ethics in Canada' revealed that even though a general sensitivity for clinical ethics was present amongst the members of the national association of surgeons, there was a lack of formal education and the existence of properly c...

an investigation of the impact of self monitoring on langauge teachers motivational practice and its effect on learners motivation

the central purpose of this study was to conduct a case study about the role of self monitoring in teacher’s use of motivational strategies. furthermore it focused on how these strategies affected students’ motivational behavior. although many studies have been done to investigate teachers’ motivational strategies use (cheng & d?rnyei, 2007; d?rnyei & csizer, 1998; green, 2001, guilloteaux & d?...

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QT dispersion: time for an obituary?

Perhaps the believers and disbelievers represent two different poles of scientific and research attitude. Some believe that the original concept of QT dispersion is correct merely because the technology can be applied to existing ECGs, and that the results more or less frequently (irrespective of the reproducibility) statistically distinguish between clinically defined groups. Others point to t...

Mushroom-Body Memories: An Obituary Prematurely Written?

Studies on insect olfactory learning have established the mushroom bodies as key brain structures for the formation of long-term memory (LTM). Two new neurons in the fly brain are reported now as essential sites for LTM formation, while mushroom bodies are claimed to be unnecessary to this end.