A semester-long internship was designed for undergraduate students at the University of Delhi, India. Teams comprising 30 from all over were trained to carry out field exploration activities on Yamuna River flowing in Delhi. The provided with portable kits measure physicochemical parameters a selected bank River. Students documented invertebrate fauna riparian zone banks. At same time, they not...

At the JALT2020 International Conference, Code of Conduct (CoC) and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) committees deliberated on issues equity for representation members within JALT. The topics discussion included (a) wider representation, (b) native-speakerism, (c) professional development opportunities, (d) diversity in teaching contexts, (e) effectiveness JALT’s current measures regarding in...

Social exclusion has a myriad of negative effects on students’ psychological and social well-being. One way to combat such is raise awareness about in schools. Here, we describe evaluate training program that was carried out across schools The Netherlands. relies basic experiential learning principles well-established paradigm make participants experience discuss exclusion. We had two goals the...

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Abstract The knowledge of medium-strength and field-specific collocations is a prerequisite for sounding native-like as such an essential skill to have future translators. While students are usually familiar with the use idioms fixed expressions, they may struggle recognizing also producing collocations, especially ones do not encounter enough frequency. They tend overuse certain common word co...

BACKGROUND In the UK there has been an effort, through the National Awareness and Early Diagnosis Initiative (NAEDI), to increase early stage diagnoses and ultimately cancer survival. Encouraging early symptom presentation through awareness-raising activities in primary care is one method to achieve this goal. Understanding GPs' views about this type of activity, however, is crucial prior to im...

A 60-year-old man with a history of bipolar disorder on risperidone, bupropion, and escitalopram was admitted for community acquired streptococcal pneumonia. Four days later, he developed persistent hyperthermia, dysautonomia, rigidity, hyporeflexia, and marked elevation of serum creatine phosphokinase. He was diagnosed with neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) and improved with dantrolene, bro...

As long as there is no cure for AIDS, the only effective means of containing its spread is prevention, primarily through public education. Cuba's AIDS Prevention Group is a community-based organization whose main purpose is to support the National HIV/AIDS Program's prevention and education efforts. The Group's Memorias Project uses the creation and display of memorial quilts to put a human fac...