The present study aimed at investigating the specific discourse cycles of someintroductory textbooks across disciplines and languages to see to what extent theyacculturate students into the new subjects. To this end, 2 well-established and mostlyused English and Persian introductory textbooks in sociology and 2 other wellestablishedEnglish and Persian introductory textbooks in linguistics were ...

OBJECTIVE As a result of a curriculum reform launched in 2012 at our institution, preclinical training was shortened to 2 years instead of the traditional 3 years, creating additional incentives to optimise teaching methods. In accordance with the new curriculum, a semester-long preclinical module of clinical skills (CS) laboratory training takes place in the second year of study, while an intr...

tuberculous meningitis treatment: Results of Haydarpasa-3 Study Hakan Erdem; Derya Ozturk-Engin; Serap Gencer; Oral Oncul Professor; Hanefi Cem Gul,; Haluk Vahaboglu; Gata Haydarpasa Training Hospital, Infectious Disease and Clinical Microbiology Deparment, Istanbul, Turkey; Haydarpasa Numume Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Lutfi...

An emphasis on self-regulated learning in the military community (U.S. Army Training & Doctrine Command, 2011) has highlighted a need for point-of-need training in environments where human tutors are either unavailable or impractical. Computer-Based Tutoring Systems (CBTS) have been shown to be as effective as expert human tutors (VanLehn, 2011) in one-to-one tutoring in well-defined domains (e...

1 Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Van Military Hospital, Van Askeri Hastanesi Altıntepe, Van, Turkey. 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Van Military Hospital, Van Askeri Hastanesi Altıntepe, Van, Turkey. Department of Emergency Medicine, Etimesgut Military Hospital, Etimesgut Asker Hastanesi Etimesgut, Ankara, Turkey. Department of Emergency Medicine, Sisli Hamidiye Etfal Research...

Computer simulations have many application areas ranging from physics and chemistry research, biomedical engineering and weather forecast to military training and the preparation for missions in hazardous environments. Distributed simulations that involve humans-in-the-loop are typically applied for training and preparation of large, often international, military operations. The need for standa...

OBJECTIVE To identify the significant predictors associated with Army Dental Corps junior officers' intent to leave (ITL) the military. METHODS A secondary data analysis of the 2009 Army Dental Officer Retention Survey was conducted. Frequencies, bivariate, linear, and logistic regression analyses were calculated. RESULTS Forty-six percent of junior officers completed the survey (N = 577; n...

In recent years, the rising rate of suicides by military personnel has generated concern among policymakers, military leaders, and the public at large. Based on a recommendation from an earlier RAND report on preventing suicide among military personnel, this study reviews the literature on gatekeeper models of suicide prevention to better understand what is known about the effectiveness of gate...

The advancement of high technologies and the arrival of the information age have caused changes to the modern warfare. The military forces of many countries have replaced partially real training drills with training simulation systems to achieve combat readiness. However, considerable types of training simulation systems are used in military settings. In addition, differences in system set up t...