this study investigates the effect of four types of oral corrective feedback, namely, explicit elicitation, implicit elicitation, explicit recast and implicit recast on the most commonly mispronounced phonological features among iranian efl learners through immediate uptake and retention. five classes were randomly categorized into four experimental groups and one control group, each with 18 in...

BACKGROUND Medical image perception research relies on visual data to study the diagnostic relationship between observers and medical images. A consistent method to assess visual function for participants in medical imaging research has not been developed and represents a significant gap in existing research. METHODS Three visual assessment factors appropriate to observer studies were identif...

The current theories relating to the development and progression of myopia are related to exposure of the eye to hyperopic defocus. This paper discusses these theories and the large body of recent research investigating the evidence behind them. As both human and animal studies demonstrate, when considering the potential influence of defocus on eye growth, the duration of exposure as well as th...

this field study investigated the frequency and intensity of pre-menstrual syndrome among high school female students in their final years of schooling in kerman(iran, 1993).   a total of 400 high school female students who met the subject criteria were selected on a multistage sampling process.   the tool was a questionnaire, based on rossignol and bonnlander (1988) instrument prepared to meas...

Background: Musculoskeletal diseases are often studied in people with hard occupations, such as in factory workers, but they are less often studied in people with intellectual occupations. Accordingly, this study aims to examine musculoskeletal diseases and their relationship with quality of life among faculty members of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences (RUMS) to design corrective exerc...

PURPOSE This prospective study was aimed at assessing cleft lip and palate (CLP) patients' opinions and attitudes towards their upper lip and nose and the number of secondary corrective surgical interventions electively undertaken to upper lip and nose that were carried out during a 2 year follow-up period. MATERIALS AND METHODS During a 2 year follow-up period CLP outpatients were recruited ...

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We discuss many aspects of a reproduction of a formal painting from the XVIth century. It is a portrait of Viceroy of New Spain Luis de Velasco, El Joven or Hijo (son-see text), found at the Museum of the Pecos National Monument (near Pecos and Santa Fe, New Mexico). A formal portrait of each Viceroy of New Spain was created, and this one was painted during de Velasco's first term as Viceroy (1...

Recent archaeological research on Uneapa Island, West New Britain, Papua New Guinea has uncovered a rich and varied archaeological landscape, unique within the surrounding region. Locates range from single stones to large-scale complexes of over three hundred arranged stone features. 'Seats' and tables', stone mortars, cooking places, grinding stones and carved boulders have been found in vario...