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This chapter describes the concept of learning flexibility in Experiential Learning Theory and its relationship to integrative learning and adult development. The Learning Flexibility Index (LFI), an improvement over previous measures of learning flexibility, is introduced. We introduce a new measure for calculating le... |
Simulation is the only general tool for analyzing performance of large complex systems. However, blindly using simulation to locate the optimal configuration of a complex systems is an impossible task for most real life problems because of two major difficulties: (1) Adequate accuracy of results requires long simulatio... |
Abstratct – Vocational education is increasingly attaining enormous significance in our nation of lately. The absence of professional capability as a result of the current educational framework has offered ascend to the requirement for ability based educational schemes. It is in this setting this study is conducted to ... |
Venous stenosis is the most common cause of arteriovenous fistula (AVF) failure in hemodialysis patients. For patients with AVF stenosis, the pressure over the antecedent part of the AVF stenotic lesion will increase if arterial inflow is sufficient. We report a chronic hemodialysis patient who received an angiographic... |
Background Patients falls in hospitals are frequent and undesirable complications that may lead to negative outcomes such as injuries, prolonged hospitalization and legal liability. Objectives To investigate the incidence and characteristics of patients hospitalized in the Health Spa Piestany. Methods Prospective analy... |
Discrete choice models are usually derived from the assumption of random utility maximization. We consider the reverse problem, whether choice probabilities are consistent with maximization of random utilities. This leads to tests that consider the variation of these choice probabilities with the average utilities of t... |
We have implemented and tested a new automatic method for the montage synthesis and 3D reconstruction of large tissue volumes from confocal laser scanning microscopy data (CLSM). This method relies on maximization of the phase correlation between adjacent images. It was tested on a large specimen (a murine heart) that ... |
The broad-spectrum antiviral pseudobase T705, a fluorinated pyrazinecarboxamide, is incorporated via its triphosphate form into nascent viral RNA by viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerases. Since it mimics guanine or adenine it can act as a mutagen, whereas consecutive incorporation leads to chain termination. Here we exam... |
While case‐based discussions can empower students to apply knowledge to contextual clinical situations, scheduling these activities is a challenge in crowded curricula. Case‐based eLearning activities, derived from existing cases discussed within anatomy small group tutorials, were created incorporating principles such... |
Objectives: The aim of the study was to increase the efficiency of treatment for severe symptoms of overactive bladder (OAB) with antimuscarinic drugs in elderly men and women. Methods: A total of 341 patients over 65 years of age (average age 69.9; 186 women and 155 men) with severe symptoms of OAB (frequency of incon... |
Dysphagia is an important consequence of cancer treatment and has overarching implications on quality of life. Using the FOIS, we demonstrated that swallowing function may be worse in the long term in patients with OPSCC undergoing triple therapy, although this finding did not reach statistical significance. This study... |
OBJECTIVES |
It was the objective of this study to establish an animal model which simulates the conditions of a biomaterial associated bacterial urinary tract infection. |
METHODS |
The curled portion of polyurethane double pig-tail ureteric stents, pre-coated with P. aeruginosa,were inserted transurethrally into the bladder in eight rabbits. Eight control animals received sterile stent material. Microbiology studies of the stent, bladder tissue, and urine, as well as bladder histopathology were e... |
RESULTS |
P. aeruginosa was recovered from all stent, bladder, and urine specimens in the P. aeruginosa pre-coated stent group, and no P. aeruginosa was present in any of the control specimens (p=0.0002). The controls only developed minimal bladder inflammation, whereas the bladders of the P. aeruginosa pre-coated stent group we... |
CONCLUSIONS |
This rabbit model was easy to manipulate, low in maintenance requirements, and had pathophysiologically distinct end points, suitable for the assessment of biomaterial associated urinary tract infections.Determining adolescents' suitability for inpatient psychotherapy: utility of the clinician-rated Readiness for Inpat... |
Growing economic pressure on inpatient services for adolescents has resulted in fewer clinicians to provide individual psychotherapy. As a result, inpatient treatment trends have favored group psychotherapy modalities and psychopharmacological interventions. Currently, no clinician-rated measures exist to assist clinic... |
After lengthy negotiations and a court battle,1 NHS England has reached agreement with three drug companies to supply drugs to eliminate hepatitis C. |
The procurement, said to be the largest ever negotiated by the NHS, was complex because it set out to acquire treatments on the best possible terms for the NHS while avoiding the “winner takes all” approach based simply on price. The aim was to provide certainty so that the companies could plan several years ahead. |
NHS England also wanted the companies to help find patients, many of whom might not even realise they carry hepatitis C. More than two thirds of the estimated 160 000 people infected with the virus don’t currently have a diagnosis. |
A further complication was that of the three companies—Gilead Sciences, Merck Sharp and …Circular dichroism of double‐stranded RNA in the presence of salt and ethanol |
We have investigated CD spectra of double‐stranded RNA (dsRNA) in a variety of ethanolic and salt solutions. Solution conditions were varied by the addition of salts and ethanol, alone, or in combinations. (1) On addition of either salt or ethanol alone to solutions of dsRNA, we found that the positive CD band at 264 n... |
The humanitarian crisis in Myanmar is still ongoing today, especially humanitarian and health problems suffered by ethnic Rohingya. Myanmar government's lack of response in resolving this humanitarian crisis is already a concern to the whole world. The lack of existing health facilities for ethnic Rohingya especially d... |
Three years after passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), implementation of many of its provisions and delay of others, the majority of workers continue to give low marks to the U.S. health care system, though the vast majority are satisfied with their own health plans. This paper exa... |
Family engagement is a critical component of child welfare practice. Studies report improved experiences and outcomes when families are involved in decision making. Robust engagement may also serve as a culturally responsive approach to improving outcomes for families. Although practice-level interventions have receive... |
Acetylcholinesterase (AChE), a key enzyme in the central and peripheral nervous systems, is the principal target of organophosphorus nerve agents. Quaternary oximes can regenerate AChE activity by displacing the phosphyl group of the nerve agent from the active site, but they are poorly distributed in the central nervo... |
Abstract Questioning the validity of scholarly work is not a typical path to publication in the management field. However, although considerable scholarship assesses entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions models of behaviour, methodological weaknesses in scale development have hampered scholars’ ability to rigorously... |
This paper studies the problem of actuator fault of a new type of quadrotor UAV with high payload and energy utilization efficiency. When the UAV is performing tasks in a complex and dangerous environment, it is extremely prone to damage to the actuator structure, which will reduce the efficiency of the actuator, resul... |
The aim of the work is to study the horizontal displacements of the Svicha riverbed, as well as to analyze the locations of the transitions of the fuel and energy complex across the river. The research methodology involves the use of archival topographic maps, in particular the Austrian period (1874), the Polish period... |
In this paper, we propose a Bayesian non-parametric signal classification approach for spectrum sensing in cognitive radios (CR's). The proposed classification approach is based on the Dirichlet process mixture model (DPMM) that allows inferring the number and types of signals from their spectral and cyclic properties.... |
Serotonin synthesis rates were evaluated using α‐[14C]methyl‐l‐tryptophan (α‐MTrp) autoradiographic methods in olfactory bulbectomized (OBX) rats. They were significantly (p < 0.05) increased in the frontal (50%) and parietal (40%) cortices, superior olive (over 30%), and the substantia nigra (30%) in the OBX rats as c... |
This article describes a research project focused on evaluation capacity building and internal evaluation practice, in a small sample of early learning services in Aotearoa New Zealand. Poor evaluation practice in this context has persisted for several decades, and capacity building attempts have had limited impact. Mu... |
Six species of felids are distributed across Mexico and all are affected to a greater or lesser extent by the national highway network (377,660 km in length), but the magnitude of its impact on these species is unknown. Part of the issue is the scarce information available spread across the scientific literature, mamma... |
We calculate the full O(αs) radiative corrections to the three spin independent and five spin dependent structure functions that describe the angular decay distribution in the decay of a polarized top quark into a W -boson (followed by the decay W+ → l+ + νl or by W + → q̄ + q) and a bottom quark. The angular decay dis... |
Digital radiographic systems based on photoconductive layers with the latent charge image readout by photoinduced discharge (PID) are investigated theoretically. Previously, a number of different systems have been proposed using sandwiched photoconductor and insulator layers and readout using a scanning laser beam. The... |
This study investigates the consensus problem for a class of nonlinear discrete-time multi-agent systems. The dynamics of agents are heterogeneous and unknown. A novel distributed data-driven protocol is proposed by using model free adaptive control method, which only uses the input/output data of neighbouring agents a... |
The configuration space of general relativity is superspace the space of all Riemannian 3-metrics modulo diffeomorphisms. However, it has been argued that the configuration space for gravity should be conformal superspace the space of all Riemannian 3-metrics modulo diffeomorphisms and conformal transformations. Recent... |
Magnetic-equivalent-circuit model for surface mounted permanent-magnet synchronous machines in both healthy and faulty cases is presented in this study, where both saturation effect and space harmonics are considered. Pole numbers, magnets and slot numbers can be chosen arbitrarily in the proposed model, and the behavi... |
CARMA(Collective Adaptive Resource-Sharing Markovian Agents) is a recently developed stochastic process algebra language which provides constructions for specifying the behavior of collective adaptive systems. By using CARMA and membrane computing patterns, in this paper we develop and analyze a model of the immune sys... |
Today nurses are facing a world in which they are almost forced to use transculturally-based nursing theories and practices in order to care for people of diverse cultures. The author, who in the mid-'50s pioneered the development of the first transcultural nursing theory with a care focus, discusses the relevance, ass... |
At the early stage of treatment, IFN alpha‐2a induces inhibition of HCV replication. The viral load reflects mainly the degradation rate of the viruses. However, differences in the behavior of the viral population depend on changes, which occurred in the HCV‐IRES genome. In this study, cloning and sequencing strategies... |
The involvement of Zn2+ ions in the structure of ubiquitous protein zinc fingers gives this metal a particular position in the biology of the cell. Zinc has long been known as a trace element crucial for the proper folding and functioning of numerous proteins in the cell, including enzymes, signal transduction proteins... |
Uncovering these molecular details of zinc homeostasis in the cell has unexpectedly opened new avenues in the field of virology, shedding new light on host-virus interactions. It has long been recognized that Zn2+ is an important cofactor not only of cellular proteins but of many viral proteins as well. Recent studies ... |
Here, we first present the general basis of the significance of zinc to the virus, and thereafter we discuss the molecular mechanisms of this enigmatic interplay between viruses and the cellular systems that manage Zn2+ flux, with particular emphasis on this newly discovered type of host-virus interaction.Walking on gl... |
Will reading habit influence your life? Many say yes. Reading walking on glass is a good habit; you can develop this habit to be such interesting way. Yeah, reading habit will not only make you have any favourite activity. It will be one of guidance of your life. When reading has become a habit, you will not make it as... |
In this paper, we study the benefits of the availability of a specific form of additional information-the vertical direction (gravity) and the height of the camera, both of which can be conveniently measured using inertial sensors and a monocular video sequence for 3D urban modeling. We show that in the presence of thi... |
Methodology provided summarizes published, original and foreign theoretic and experimental data on the subject of heating and cooling of standard and shaped conductors of overhead power transmission line and uses those of them which are most affected to fundamental heat-transfer laws. Computation surface area of standa... |
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