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... This is part of a letter you receive from an English friend. We had dinner at a new restaurant yesterday. It was great! How often do you eat out? What's your favourite restaurant like? ... pleased to hear It's great to hear What wonderful news about Moving the topic on (Paragraph 2) Anyway, the reason I'm writing I thought I'd write to tell/ask you Anyway, I was ... speakers when writing to friends and relatives. Using them will help you write in an informal style and will also help you organise your letter into clear paragraphs. Starting your letter (Paragraph...

... writing an essay. It was easier to start writing with a paragraph (topic sentence and supporting ones). An essay is a combination of paragraphs. 44% of the subjects thought that their teacher applied ... a habit at school already. Besides, it didn’t always mean writing a good paragraph could make the learners write a good essay for the learners needed to link the thread of ideas within paragraphs. ... kinds and parts of an essay. Semantic and syntactic variety remained their weak points. The learners evaluated their knowledge of kinds of essay, coherence, unity and mechanics on an average...

... to learn from other sources. WRITING PAPER Name: Group A Paper: 02F6g Task: 02 AD Write: It’s said that parents are always the best teachers but we strongly disagree with the above statement. ... WRITING PAPER Name: Group D Paper: 02F5g Task: 02 AD Write: I strongly agree with the statement that parents are the best teachers for three following reasons: they are old and experience; ... teachers when children are small but they cannot be the best ones all the time. There’s still a gap between children and parents in every family. WRITING PAPER Name: Group C Paper: 01F2g Task:...

... who have had a Latin education. Dashes A useful piece of punctuation. A pair can act in the same way as a pair of commas (The patient, who appeared smartly dressed – with a collar and tie and a ... electronic databases, they now have a role as a stand-alone unit of scientific knowledge. Approach writing an abstract in the same way as you would approach any other writing task (see process of writing) . ... public – many fall uncomfortably between a number of audiences, pleasing none and costing a fair amount of money and aggravation. This confusion has a clear implication. Directors of public health must...

... numbers, let's see what kinds of data are available. Here, data is broadly grouped into numeric data and character data as shown in Figure 2.1. Figure 2.1 Kinds of data h t t p ... designated by a combination of 1 and 0, as well. To promote understanding, the most significant bit of data is assumed to designate a sign. Eight-bit data is expressed as - (a 7 *2 7 )+ a 6 *2 6 ... value + Positive value = Negative value Negative value + Negative value = Positive value Positive value - Negative value = Negative value Negative value - Positive value = Positive value are...

... essays on how the ideas are presented or organized and developed as well as on the use of language. 2. Essays are judged on organization. If an essay is well organized, a reader will be able ... important qualities of a leader in that area. Explain why these qualities are important, using specific examples and details. (A) Point of View (B) Describe with Details (C) Compare (D) Agree ... the Main Ideas: The restatement says that both a city and town have positive aspects. There are many good reasons to live in a big city and an equal number of good reasons to live in a small...

... envelhecimento, memória, cognição, testes neuropsicológicos. Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte,  Brazil. Paulo Caramelli  –  Department of Internal Medicine / Faculty of Medicine / Federal University of Minas Gerais - Avenida Prof. Alfredo Balena, 190 /  Room 246 - 30130-100 Belo Horizonte MG - Brazil. E-mail: caramelp@usp.br Received 01/30/2008. Received in final form 02/19/2008. Accepted 02/19/2008. 44 ... 2008;2(1):42-45 42 Memory complaints and cognitive performance of healthy elderly Caramelli P, Beato RG Subjective memory complaints and cognitive performance in a sample of healthy elderly Paulo Caramelli, Rogério ... 2008;2(1):42-45 Memory loss is one of the most common complaints  arising in consultations with elderly people, being reported  by 25% to 50% of these individuals. 1  However, whether  these subjective memory complaints (SMC) are related to  objective memory deficits or to subsequent development  of dementia, remains a matter of debate. A recent review found that SMCs are not consistently  associated with current cognitive impairment, but rather  are associated with a greater risk of future cognitive de- cline. 2  Indeed, the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment  (MCI), which entails an increased likelihood of conversion  to dementia, demands the existence of SMCs, preferably  confirmed by an informant. 3 High age, female gender and low educational level are  generally associated with a higher prevalence of memory  complaints. 1  In an autopsy study, SMCs were found to be  related to the presence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathol- ogy in elderly with and without dementia, suggesting that  memory complaints in older persons may be a sign of self  awareness of a degenerative process. 4 However, SMCs might also be related to depression and  some personality traits, such as neuroticism. 2  It is also pos- sible that these complaints vary according to the culture of the people studied. In a recent Brazilian study, Minett et  al. found that subjects with and without SMCs performed  similarly in a series of cognitive tests, although the former  had higher scores on the Geriatric Depression Scale. 5 The present study aimed to further investigate this topic  in a group of cognitively healthy Brazilian elderly subjects  which were divided into two subgroups according to the  presence of SMCs and submitted to brief cognitive tests. Methods Sixty cognitively intact elderly individuals (39 females  and 21 males), aged 69.9±6.3 years (ranging from 60 to 91  years), and with mean educational level of 8.5±5.5 years  (ranging from 1 to 20 years), were included in the study.  These individuals were family caregivers of demented pa- tients followed at the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology  Unit of the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University  of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil, and also  volunteers recruited from the community. Inclusion criteria were absence of neurological or psy- chiatric diseases according to a clinical interview, absence  of depression (see below), and no use of benzodiazepines,  antidepressants or neuroleptics.  All participants were submitted to the Mini-Mental  State-Examination (MMSE) 6,7  and to the Cornell scale of depression. 8,9  Performance on the MMSE was adjusted for  educational level and had to be greater than or equal to 21  for 1-3 years of schooling, greater than or equal to 24 for  4-7 years and greater than or equal to 26 for individuals  with 8 or more years of schooling. 10  Scores on the Cornell  scale of depression had to be less than or equal to 7 points  in order to rule out depression. 8 Cognitive evaluation was carried out with the follow- ing tests: the Brief Cognitive Screening Battery (BCSB) 11,12 ,  digit span forward and backward and the Frontal Assess- ment Battery (FAB). 13,14  The BCSB includes a memory test  of 10 simple figures and yields different scores, namely:  incidental and immediate memory, learning, delayed recall  and recognition. 15,16  The battery also includes a category  fluency test (animals per minute) and clock drawing and  has proven very sensitive in the diagnosis of mild AD. 12  The  FAB is a brief diagnostic instrument for the assessment of executive functions in patients with suspected frontal lobe  syndrome. 13 All individuals were given a structured self-report  memory questionnaire, the MAC-Q. 17  This questionnaire  was devised to assess age-related memory decline. It is  composed by six questions related to memory function- ing in everyday situations (e.g., to remember a telephone  number that he/she uses at least once a week) in which  the subject is asked to compare and rate his/her current  ability to when he/she was 40 years’ old. The total score on  the MAC-Q ranges from 7 to 35, where greater scores in- dicate subjective memory loss. Scores greater than or equal  to 25 have been found to be suggestive of age-associated  memory impairment. Accordingly, in the present study,  the individuals were divided into two groups: absence of SMCs (MAC-Q scores <25) and presence of SMCs (MAC- Q scores ≥25). The performance of the two groups on the  different cognitive tests was compared. One of the authors administered the MMSE, the Cor- nell scale and the MAC-Q. Subsequently, the other inves- tigator, blinded to the subjects’ results for these three mea- sures, administered the cognitive evaluation. Descriptive analysis of the data and statistical compari- sons between the performances of the two groups on the  different cognitive tests were carried out with MedCalc  software. Student’s t-test was used for comparison of age,  educational level and MMSE scores, as well as for the results  of the other cognitive tests (digit span, BCSB and FAB).  Chi-square was employed for comparing gender distribu- tion of the two groups. Level of significance was set at 0.05.  The study was approved by the Research Ethics...

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