Spellex Development announces the release of Spellex Biotech and Spellex Pharmaceutical, two new speciality software programs for personal computer users in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. The Spellex Bio/Rx software bundle integrates with Microsoft Word, WordPerfect or Lotus and helps users to check the spelling of over 200 000 biotechnology and pharmaceutical terms without leavi...

1Department of Medical Education, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 2Department of Pediatrics, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 3Department of Surgery, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 4Department of Dentistry, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 5Department of Anesthesia, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 6Department of Geriatrics, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qata...

The European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) began as a project which set out to define the computer skills required by the ordinary citizen to take advantage of the new end user technology. The project started in 1995 and since that time ECDL has become the leading digital literacy certification in the world with almost 10 million candidates enrolled in the programme. The core ECDL consists of...

It has been claimed that working memory training programs produce diverse beneficial effects. This article presents a meta-analysis of working memory training studies (with a pretest-posttest design and a control group) that have examined transfer to other measures (nonverbal ability, verbal ability, word decoding, reading comprehension, or arithmetic; 87 publications with 145 experimental comp...

background and aim: electrical discharges in temporal lobe epilepsy can cause disorders in auditory pathways. staggered spondaic word test ( ssw) is one of the most common behavioral tests to evaluate the central auditory nervous system. this study aimed to evaluate and compare auditory processing problems in temporal lobe epileptic patients and normal subjects with persian ssw test. methods: t...

Malay is described as an alphabetic language with salient syllabic structures. In our attempt to develop a reading intervention program for early Malay struggling readers, word analysis of Malay children’s stories was conducted. Additionally, in order to have a better understanding of Malay word structures, a cross-linguistic comparison with English was attempted. The results indicate significa...

this study aimed to identify the portions of teaching materials for english classes in iran’s high schools. the efficiency of these materials was evaluated by (a) eliciting the teachers’ perception of the materials to identify their distribution portions and (b) studying the teachers’ satisfaction to identify whether the materials were successful to develop the efl teachers’ knowledge and skill...

This study aimed at investigating the effect of visual (Cuisenaire Rods) and auditory nonsensical monosyllables using Pratt speech processing software as teaching techniques on retention of word stress. To this end, 60 high school participants made the two experimental groups of the study each having 30 students on the basis of their proficiency scores on KET (Key English Test). In one experime...