Background: The graduated dentists who are working for the community health services are considered to be better judges to comment on the educational needs in accordance with the society prerequisites. The aim of this study was to investigate the educational provisions of the department of pediatric dentistry from the viewpoints of the graduated dentists of Shiraz dental school. Methods: A tota...

this study tries to show that how viewpoint functions in discourse. as it will be clarified, it is highly related to the intention of the speaker/writer, and as a result, the orientation (s)he adopts in the discourse. deictic markers function as discourse markers to fix and anchor time, place, agent, and other discursive elements. in this way, the viewpoint adopted by the enunciator/utterer is ...

A USAID-sponsored family planning project called "FALAH" (Family Advancement for Life and Health), implemented in 20 districts of Pakistan, aimed to lower unmet need for family planning by improving access to services. To enhance the quality of care offered by the public health system, the FALAH project trained 10,534 facility-based health care providers, managers, and medical college faculty m...

a dialogue between myself and my hallucinations. The publication of this book brought me letters from people who wanted to know how a nurse could work efficiently while being a schizophrenic. Getting the schizophrenic a job and helping him to keep it are very important tasks for psychiatrists and social workers. The way has been paved by the setting up of workshops within hospitals, so that pat...

Past research has shown that peer support helps improve faculty activities such as research, teaching, and technology competencies. Using a mixed research method design, this research study investigated resources available to faculty as they teach or prepare to teach online courses at a large Midwest public university. In addition, the study explored the nature of peer interactions that existed...

Started in 1997, the International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES) series of conference provides excellent opportunities for the presentation of new, interesting research findings and results in the general areas of knowledge-based and intelligent systems, leading to knowledge transfer and the generation of new ideas and techniques in engine...

In this paper effects of two most likely interference sources: narrow-band (adjacent WLAN channels) and intra-system (Bluetooth-WLAN) interference on range and performance of IEEE 802.11b WLAN equipment were studied. Three main sets of measurements were performed: the first as “free space”, the second with narrowband interference and the third with wideband interference. The results of the firs...

Background: Nursing education is part of the higher education system that deals with human life and considering its quantitative and qualitative aspects is very important. Understanding educational needs is a prerequisite for successful education. This study is aims is to investigate the compatibility of nursing undergraduate curriculum with occupational needs from the viewpoints of faculty mem...