BACKGROUND Calculation deficits are a common early manifestation of Alzheimer disease (AD). OBJECTIVE To investigate oral and written calculation skills in AD patients using quantitative and qualitative methods. DESIGN Comparison among controls, patients with mild AD, and patients with moderate AD on measures of arithmetic skill. SETTING Tertiary care university medical center. PARTICIP...

Modern engineering programs have to address rapidly changing technical content and have to enable students to develop transferable skills such as critical evaluation, communication skills and lifelong learning. This paper introduces a combined learning and assessment activity that provides students with opportunities to develop and practice their soft skills, but also extends their theoretical ...

This paper attempts to investigate if the undergraduates’ core competencies are able to meet with the requirements set by the employers and to analyse the effectiveness of personal qualities and employability skills development in private university in Malaysia. Questionnaires survey, mean score comparison, and independent sample t-test are used to capture the perception differential between 30...

Background and Aim: Oral health literacy plays an important role in oral health promotion. This study aimed to assess the level of oral health literacy of senior medical and pharmacy students. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on senior medical and pharmacy students (n=300) of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2015. The oral health literacy-adult questionna...

To speak intelligibly is a goal in speaking to be understood oral communication with second language. Mistakes even simple sounds may deter the correct flow of meanings listeners. Thus, this study determined most critical vowel and consonant contrastive among Grade 7 learners Bontoc, Mountain Province. A Phonetic Diagnostic Test (PDT) was administered learners, then tests were checked, tabulate...