Introduction. Practicing medicine needs correct, up to date and easy to use information resources. This study is designed to investigate different aspects of the resources used by internal medicine attending physicians, residents and interns. Methods. All attendings (n: 43), residents (n: 23) and interns (n: 33) of internal medicine ward were, after receiving a brief introduction about the ai...

This study investigated the effects of partial dictation on the listening comprehension (LC) ability of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. Two homogeneous groups of intermediate EFL learners at the Abrar Language Institute in Qa’emshahr were chosen. Each group consisted of 30 female intermediate EFL students. One of the groups was chosen as the experimental group (EG), and the other as the cont...

The paper describes a general automated method for synthesizing the design of both the topology and parameter values for controllers. The automated method automatically makes decisions concerning the total number of processing blocks to be employed in the controller, the type of each block, the topological interconnections between the blocks, the values of all parameters for the blocks, and the...

Integrative Medicine • Vol. 14, No. 2 • April 2015 54 Sudak—Viewpoints Nancy Sudak, MD, is the executive director of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM) and the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine (ABIHM). She recently left her unique holistic primary care practice in a community health center in Duluth, Minnesota, to support the growth of the Academy. She is on th...

Chinese and Korean protests over “revisionist” Japanese histories of World War II are well known. The impact of contested Chinese and US histories of the Korean War on US-China relations today has received less attention. More broadly, there has been little research seeking to systematically explore just how history textbook controversies matter for international relations. This article experim...

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh masih rendahnya minat baca masyarakat Indonesia. Salah satu alasan tersebut adalah keterbatasan bahan bacaan. Namun, seiring perkembangan teknologi, upaya untuk mengatasi bacaan dengan diadakannya dalam bentuk elektronik atau digital (e-book). Buku e-book diharapkan dapat meningkatkan karena diakses mudah dan biaya yang lebih murah apabila dibandingkan harus...

this study aims at discovering whether university entrance exam (uee), a high-stake selection test in iran, influences the high school and pre-university efl teachers` methodology and test development. the participants of this study included thirty high school and pre-university efl teachers who were randomly selected from ten different schools. to answer the research questions, five types of m...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of both health and social care in the UK. With health and social care increasingly asked to work in partnership, there is a need for textbooks written in a not too ‘uniprofessional’ way to be able to respond fully to the joined-up problems. This textbook presents some theoretical frameworks to bridge the gap between both services. Therefore, it is rel...

The purpose of the study is to describe basic principles designing a textbook that meets modern requirements theory and practice teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP). authors analysed available educational materials language at an aviation university, described criteria their evaluation proposed variant concept. Scientific novelty lies in identifying approaches design foreign profession...