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Over the past decades, studies of language skills have showed the importance of reading comprehension ability among EFL learners. This study aimed at determining the relationship of brain quadrants with reading comprehension skill among Iranian EFL students. The study was based on Herrmann’s Whole Brain Model. 110 University students studying TEFL at Islamic Azad University of Mashhad were randomly selected for the purpose of this study. Herrmann's Whole Brain Dominance questionnaire and a standard TOEFL reading comprehension test were used in the study in order to measure students' brain quadrant preference and reading comprehension ability. The results of statistical analysis indicated that there was a positive relationship between brain quadrants and reading comprehension ability. The study concluded that students, who were D quadrant preference, performed significantly better (P < .05) than the other learners on reading comprehension test.

The aim of this work was to determine the concentrations of some essential elements ( Br, Ca, Fe, Mg, Mn, Na, K and Cl ) in the muscle of three species of commercial fish, Dentex macrophthalmus, Sardinella maderensis, Engraulis encrasicolus (fin fishes) and a Mollusk (Cymbium cymbium ) consumed in Ghana. The concentrations of the elements in the four marine organisms from different areas along the coast of Ghana were determined using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA). The irradiation using thermal neutrons were done using the Ghana Research Reactor – 1 (GHARR – 1) facility at Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Kwabenya. Only the edible tissues of the marine organisms were analyzed. The range of concentrations of the essential elements measured in the studied samples were : Br (2.7-33mg/kg), Ca (2150-9300mg/kg), Fe (50.2-90.3mg/kg), Mg (3300-7700mg/kg), Mn (0.18-9.88mg/kg), Na (3600-21700mg/kg), K (9900-17400mg/kg), Cl (3960-9400mg/kg). The precision in terms of relative standard deviation was within ±4. The accuracy of the method was evaluated by analyzing a reference material. Our values were within ±3% of the certified or information values in all cases.

The P-Value models were designed by the researcher to teach Place Values in mathematics. The P-Value models are tools which is methodology in nature. It depicts yet another / alternative practical way of teaching Place Values in Mathematics to the usual / known method (Appendix A; Appendix B) of teaching Place Value (Kumassah, 2012; Price 2002; Price, 2001). The mathematical formulas of the P-Value models shows the step (s) / movement (s) involved in arriving at a specific number (s) / figure (s) and also the total / sum / overall number (s) / figure (s) in each P-Value models. The mathematical formulas of the P-Value models can be employed in teaching and used at the industry level. The researcher is of the view that the use of the P-Value models may help teachers teach Place Value effectively and students learn meaningfully of Place Values in mathematics. The P-Value model solution-boxes serve as a calculator to the actual calculators. It gives the same answers as that of the actual calculators and also shows and reveals the hidden mathematical operations of the actual calculator. Instead of a student manipulating the hidden operations of an actual calculator, with the P-Value model solution-box he/she practically sees and manipulates that hidden operations of a calculator.

The main purpose of this study was to explore the role of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and its effect on international students’ sociocultural adjustment in the context of pursuing education in higher learning institutions in Malaysia; specifically in Universiti Utara Malaysia. The data used for this study derived from the questionnaire survey conducted randomly among the international students in Northern University of Malaysia who came from 27 different nationalities. A total number of 397 valid responses were successfully obtained. The descriptive analysis, reliability analysis and correlation analysis were undertaken in this study. Strategy CQ (Metacognitive), Drive CQ (Motivation) and Action CQ (Behavioural) were found to be negatively related to sociocultural adjustment. Only one of the dimensions for CQ; Knowledge CQ (Cognitive), was found to influence sociocultural adjustment. Finally, limitations of the study and direction for future of the studies are discussed.

Today, since industrial clusters affect the organizational competitiveness both national and international levels and introduces a new perspective towards the location of business establishment, most countries use industrial cluster development strategy. Industrial clusters have been also considered in Iran and the industries adapted to and coordinated with the mentioned approach have tried to locate their business at the better conditions of competition and market gain within the country, region and throughout the world. In this article, at first industrial cluster, its advantages and disadvantages have been defined, and then, the history of industry and industrial cluster of Yazd province and Yazd ceramic and tile cluster performance examination tools and at the end, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats Yazd ceramic and tile cluster have been investigated.

Distribution of AIDS in recent years and having not any treatment has can send the transition and infection of this disease to become a means of hurting people and committing crime .in case of death due to transition of HIV, the person who transmits HIV can be prosecuted for murder on the other hand, low number 206 of Islamic penal law knows one of committing a crime as when a murderer intentionally commits a murder type without aiming at killing the person .therefore, identifying the purposeful murder in these cases is based on the crime and conditions which a leg is later has considered for the type of murderous action. So, if transition of HIV brings death to the victim, it can be considered as an act of murderous type.

This paper focuses the research deliberations of the Vikram Seth’s novels, A Suitable Boy, An Equal Music and The Golden Gate operating within the frame work of an imaginary, traditional society. Vikram Seth’s protagonists who are mostly men and women from urban middle class reflect that they are conscious of their predicament as individuals in the society. In view of all this, Vikram Seth the writer, if certainly not 'one thing', still more 'some things' than others? A tentative answer is that Seth's perspective is increasingly that of a globalized Indian, viewing the modern world through a prism that may be multicolored but is, ultimately, made in Asia. His first book, the tale of an Indian in China, today seems uncannily predictive of current geopolitical and economic trends, with the twin ascent of India and China now a key theme of the emerging century. By now, he clearly feels entitled to interpret the West, to both Western and Eastern readers, with a confidence and authority that betoken an Asia and an India that no longer consider themselves subordinate.

Isolation of the right subclavian artery occurs when the right subclavian artery takes origin from the pulmonary artery through a ductus arteriosus. The right subclavian artery normally takes origin from the brachiocephalic trunk, specifically the brachiocephalic artery, however due to this anomaly it takes origin from the pulmonary trunk, specifically the right pulmonary artery. As a result of this aortic arch malformation, there is a continuous filling of blood of blood into the right pulmonary artery; this phenomenon is known as subclavian steal phenomenon. As blood continues to flow in the right pulmonary artery, it gives rise to other complication s such as pulmonary over circulation.

The term exstrophy-epispadias is mainly coined due to the group of congenital abnormalities such as, bladder-exstrophy and cloacal-exstrophy. Because of the presence of abnormal opening into the cloaca, all embryos were considered by an abnormal widening of caudal trunk at the level of the leg buds which, in the youngest embryos, was associated with the abnormal presence of large aneurysmatic swellings of the dorsal aortae at this side.

Soft tissue tumors, benign or malignant, are often seen and diagnosed at a stage they become clinically gigantic or when traditionnal treatments undertaken prove their unefficiency. Authors wanted to illustrate this fact by relating the observation a giant lipoma of the thigh. The authors report in this study the observation of a 48 year old patient with a painless swelling of the left thigh evolving for 35 years and gradually increased in size, without repercussion on the function or the General state. Palpation founds a tumor in the anterolateral region of the left thigh. Radiography shows the shadow of the tumor with bone integrity. For reasons of lack of resources, MRI could not be done. Histology confirmed the diagnosis. A giant lipoma of 2900 grams measuring 27x18 cm.anatomopathology reconfirms the diagnosis.