The primary tumors of the pleura are usually examined under two headings: diffuse and localized tumors. In the localized form, there is no relationship with asbestosis (1). Localized fibrous tumors were previously known by names such as benign mesothelioma, submesothelial fibroma and localized fibrous mesothelioma. Today, they are usually referred as localized fibrous tumors (2). These tumors c...

I n early 2003 an Israeli agent in the Gaza Strip telephoned Mustafa, a wealthy Palestinian merchant in Gaza, to inform him that over the previous three months his son Ahmad had been preparing for a suicide bombing mission in Israel. Mustafa was told that if his son followed through with his plans, he and his family would suffer severe consequences: their home would be demolished, and Israel wo...

teaching the grammatical tenses is considered to be one of the most controversial challenges among teachers and researchers in teaching persian language to non-persian speakers. prioritizing the tenses in accordance with their frequency could greatly facilitate the process of language learning. in this research, a comparison has been made between the frequency of the tenses in spoken and writte...

as you know, one of the new programs of the medical universities is to familiarize the students to the medical atmosphere with the help of compassionate and experienced university professors. the program is planned and implemented under the title of mentorship, in which an experienced instructor takes the responsibility of orientation, guidance and problem solving of a number of students. the s...

This paper presents an editorial introduction to the refereed and edited papers arising from the Central Queensland University 2 annual Teaching and Learning Showcase in February 2004. In doing so, the paper depicts some of the principal landmarks in the national and institutional policy landscapes that influence the contributing authors’ several engagements with ‘best practice’ in university t...

This paper reports on a project involving software selection in the context of a curriculum redesign of a university level Japanese language program. The project aimed to improve learning outcomes, increase flexibility in student access, and increase flexibility in approaches to teaching and learning, through the use of a variety of software packages and digital resources. In doing so, an imper...

Until now we have focused on “typical” outcomes for a random walk in the “central region” of the probability distribution, which contains all of its weight as the number of steps N tend to ∞. For any finite N , now matter how large, however, there is always some chance of finding the random walk outside the central region. Such “extreme events” are not controlled by the Central Limit Theorem, a...