This quasi-experimental study examines the extent to which research findings from teacher Corrective Feedbacks (CFs) and SLA concerning the efficiency of Focus-on-Form (FoF) pedagogy is transferable to the context of foreign language learning in Iranian schools. To investigate how "grammar instruction with FoF-oriented error treatment" functions as a matrix in which English  learning takes plac...

BACKGROUND The airways of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) are highly complex, subject to various environmental conditions as well as a distinct microbiota. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is recognized as one of the most important pulmonary pathogens and the predominant cause of morbidity and mortality in CF. A multifarious interplay between the host, pathogens, microbiota, and the environment shapes...

CONTEXT Newborn screening for cystic fibrosis (CF) is included in many routine programmes but current strategies have considerable drawbacks, such as false-positive tests, equivocal diagnosis and detection of carriers. OBJECTIVE To assess the test performance of two newborn screening strategies for CF. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS In 2008 and 2009, CF screening was added to the routine ...

As one of the most successful approaches to building recommender systems, collaborative filtering (CF) uses the known preferences of a group of users to make recommendations or predictions of the unknown preferences for other users. However, the open nature of collaborative filtering recommender systems allows attackers who inject biased profile data to have a significant impact on the recommen...

Hypoglycaemia in CF in the absence of diabetes or glucose lowering therapies is a phenomenon that is receiving growing attention in the literature. These episodes are sometimes symptomatic and likely have variable aetiologies. Our first aim was to conduct a systematic review of the literature to determine what is known about hypoglycaemia in CF. Our second aim was to assess evidence based guide...

BACKGROUND Epidemic P. aeruginosa (ePA) infections are common in cystic fibrosis (CF) and have been associated with accelerated clinical decline. Factors associated with ePA are unclear, and evidence based infection control interventions are lacking. METHODS We prospectively collect all bacterial pathogens from adult CF patients. We performed PA strain typing on retrospectively collected enro...

Compassionate care is elemental in maintaining excellence the nursing profession. Yet compassion some nurses can be depleted by repeated exposure to suffering of others and result fatigue (CF) (Gustafsson & Hemberg, 2022). This paper explores why exemplary seem forestall CF. Specifically, we investigate attitudes outstanding oncology strategies they employ sustain compassionate their profession...