the purpose of this study was to evaluate an extension agent's perception with respect to effectiveness of mass teaching methods employed in educational activities of irrigated wheat growing farmers in golestan province. survey and correlational methods were employed in the study. questionnaire was used as means to collect data. the study population consisted of the whole extension workers...

objectives: mothers’ perception of their ability to parenting (maternal parenting self-efficacy) is a critical issue that influences their interactions with their preterm neonates. for better support of these mothers, a robust tool is needed which can measure mothers’ perception of their ability to understand and care for their preterm neonates as well as being sensitive to the various levels a...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES It has been demonstrated that smoking increases pain perception; however the effect of smoking on perception of pain during venous cannulation is not known. The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not smoking has an effect on pain perception due to peripheral venous cannulation. METHODS 220 patients scheduled to have elective surgery were enrolled in the...

Purpose: Two-year-olds produce 3 person singular –s more accurately on verbs in sentencefinal compared to sentence-medial position. This study was designed to determine whether these sentence position effects can be explained by perceptual factors. Methods: For this purpose, we compared 22and 27-month-olds’ perception and elicited production of 3 person singular –s in sentence medial versus fin...

This study examines the relationship between speech perception and speech production in children with speech delay (SD). Sixtythree children who participated in the Nemours Genetics of Speech Delay Project were categorized as either typically developing (TD) or SD. The children with SD were subgrouped by their articulation errors on the /s/ and // sounds tested in a perception experiment. An i...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between the caregivers’ perception of patients’ cognitive deficits (i.e., neurocognition and social cognition) and their quality of life (QoL), after adjusting on clinicians’ assessment of neurocognitive deficits and sociodemographic confounding factors. METHODS The study included 253 patients with schizophrenia an...

Previous studies showing that schizophrenic patients have a deficit in the ability to perceive facial expressions of emotion in others often have not used a differential deficit design and standardized measures of emotion perception. Using standardized and cross-validated measures in a differential deficit design, S. L. Kerr and J. M. Neale (1993) found no evidence for a deficit specific to emo...

Despite the policy of English as a subject in Indonesia’s elementary school, process teaching and learning is still relevant. However, some aspects need to be considered implementing policy, for instance, teachers parents’ perception. This research intended find out about survey on perception toward school at Palembang. uses descriptive quantitative approach. The consists 126 parents. data ...

In a recent article, [Sergent, C. & Dehaene, S. (2004). Is consciousness a gradual phenomenon? Evidence for an all-or-none bifurcation during the attentional blink, Psychological Science, 15(11), 720-729] claim to give experimental support to the thesis that there is a clear transition between conscious and unconscious perception. This idea is opposed to theoretical arguments that we should thi...