This study investigates the effectiveness of Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) approach in enhancing Indonesian EFL secondary learners’ narrative writing skills perception schools toward applying CTL approach. employed a quasi-experimental design with fifty-two eleventh-grade students as participants. The participants were divided into two groups; An experimental group received approach, c...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES Several statistical methods have been developed for analyzing multireader, multicase (MRMC) receiver operating characteristic (ROC) studies. The objective of this article is to increase awareness of these methods and determine if their results are concordant for published datasets. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data from three previously published studies were reanalyzed usin...

Objective: To compare the mean C reactive protein levels in clinically diagnosed adult patients with smear positive and smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted at the Department of General Medicine Military Hospital Rawalpindi from 21 May to 25 Sep 2011. Material and Methods: In this study 150 patients of c...

To the Editors: Dexmedetomidine (Precedex; Hospira, Inc., Lake Forest, IL) is an alpha-adrenergic agonist that can serve as an intranasal alternative to oral midazolam for children undergoing strabismus surgery. Helpful for pediatric eye surgery,1 when combined with fentanyl and ketamine, intravenous dexmedetomidine may decrease oculocardiac reflex.2 From 2013 to 2015, in our institutional revi...

Playing games for a long period can induce negative effect on the hands, especially median nerve. This study aims to compare nerve conduction between gamers and non-gamers. was analyzed with cross-sectional method of 40 subjects at University Mataram Hospital from September October 2020. The included non-gamers as controls. All groups were tested velocity using Electromyoneurography. Demographi...