It is frequently held forth, within the area of virtual pedagogical characters, that such characters are beneficial for learning as they strengthen the social dimension of electronic learning environments. This article presents more details on this proposal together with a survey of corresponding empirical evidence. In addition, materials from a recently conducted empirical study are presented....

background: patellar mal tracking is responsible for pain and disability in patellofemoral pain syndrome (pfps). patellar kinesio taping may have different effects on short and long term usage. the aim of this study is to compare the effect of short term and long term patellar kinesio taping in patellar position on women with patellofemoral pain syndrome using magnetic resonance imaging (mri). ...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Introduction Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is associated with left atrium (LA) remodelling and dysfunction, developing even before ventricle (LV) hypertrophy diastolic dysfunction. Two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (2D-STE) may help to detect subclinical LA dysfunction irreversible cardiac changes. Purpose To eval...

A procedure for selection of wheat genomic fragments containing various microsatellites is described. The procedure is based on the hybridization of single-stranded DNA fragments either to filter bound microsatellite DNA or to biotinylated oligonucleotides in solution. Hybridized strands are isolated, amplified and cloned. Results presented show that enrichment for (CA)n/(TG)n microsatellites d...

objective: administration of amoxicillin and metronidazole along with scaling and root planning (srp) is an effective adjunctive therapy for chronic periodontitis. studies have shown that administration of azithromycin is also effective for treatment of chronic periodontitis. this study aimed to compare the effect of short-term and long-term azithromycin regimen with amoxicillin and metronidazo...

Weighted linear prediction (WLP) is a method to compute allpole models of speech by applying temporal weighting of the residual energy. By using short-time energy (STE) as a weighting function, the algorithm over-weight those samples that fit the underlying speech production model well. The current work introduces a modified WLP method, stabilised weighted linear prediction (SWLP) leading alway...

Microsatellite-containing regions were isolated and characterized in Anopheles ( Nyssorhynchus ) marajoara , a primary vector of malaria parasites in northeastern Amazonia, Brazil. An enrichment protocol yielded 500 positive clones. We designed primers to amplify 40 unique microsatellites, 11 of which amplified cleanly and were polymorphic. A survey of 323 individuals showed that these loci are...