the intensity of the conflict such as war is one of the determinants of the flow of migrants and refuges with consequence of introducing infectious disease to other countries. this paper investigates the relationship between malaria incidence and forced immigration due to war from neighboring countries in dezful district, southwestern iran. all available data and accessible archived documentary...

  Concerns over the phony nature of textbooks and artificiality of their contents in reflecting authentic language have been raised by a number of researchers. It has been argued that many language teaching programs result in the failure of learners of English to successfully communicate in the target language. The problem with these programs is that there is no general agreement about the succ...

In the rst part of this paper, we will provide a general overview on electronic \Introductory Statistics" textbooks and summarize their individual strengths and weaknesses. Examples of such electronic textbooks are the CD{ ROM{based ActivStats, the Web{based CyberStats, and the CD{ROM{ and Web{based MM*Stat, In the second part of this paper, we will present our experiences from teaching an unde...

after the teacher, the most important factor in foreign language classroom is the textbook. it is vital that the best possible text be chosen for each situation. even with the development of new technologies that allow for higher quality teacher-generated materials, demand for textbooks continues to grow, and the publishing industry responds with new series and textbooks each year. therefore, i...

ARGUMENT CONSTRUCTION, ARGUMENT EVALUATION, ANDDECISION-MAKING: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF ARGUMENTATION ANDDEBATE TEXTBOOKSby NEIL BUTTMay 2010Advisor: Dr. Kelly YoungMajor: CommunicationDegree: Doctor of PhilosophyCritical thinking abilities, especially the advanced critical thinking abilities required fordecision-making, are important to both individuals an...

How has growing knowledge about human genetics affected how American textbooks present race? This article analyzes 80 biology textbooks published from 1952 to 2002 to reveal that U.S. biology texts have pursued the topic of race with renewed vigor in recent years. Moreover, textbooks have redefined race as genetic without furnishing empirical evidence for this framing. The textbooks' transforma...

The use of corpus-based findings in order to inform L2 teaching materials have been emphasized by many researchers owing to the fact that the studies of authentic texts have revealed some inconsistencies between the use of grammatical structures in corpora, and those found in language textbooks that are based purely on hunch. Therefore, by comparing a textbook corpus with the British National C...

The Web-revolution in publishing and reading is rapidly increasing the volume of online textbooks. Nowadays, for most of the subjects, a selection of online textbooks is available. Such an abundance leads to an interesting opportunity: if a student does not like how a primary textbook presents a particular topic s/he can always access its alternative (e.g. more detailed or advanced) presentatio...

Malaria, once endemic in Canada, is now restricted to imported cases. Imported malaria in Canada has not been examined recently in the context of increased international mobility, which may influence incidence of imported and autochthonous cases. Surveillance of imported cases can highlight high-risk populations and help target prevention and control measures. To identify geographic and individ...

We investigated 160 kinds of pesticide residues in 715 samples of 116 kinds of foods distributed in Kitakyushu city. Sixty kinds of pesticides were detected in 55 kinds of foods (204 samples) in the range of 0.002-22 mg/kg. Five kinds of pesticides in 7 samples violated the residue standards and the indication of "unused". The detection ratios of unregulated pesticide in domestic and imported f...