BACKGROUND The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) was planned and designed to quantify the educational environment precisely for medical schools and health-related professional schools. DREEM is now considered a valid and reliable tool, which is globally accepted for measuring the medical educational environment. The educational environment encountered by students has an impact ...

IMPROVING STABILITY, STEADY-STATE ERROR PERFORMANCE AND CONVERGENCE RATE IN OPTICAL COMMUNICATION IMPLEMENTING AFS-MDFE USING ADG AND TD ALGORITHM TAREK HASAN-AL-MAHMUD, ASHADUN NOBI, M. ZAMIL SULTAN and M. MAHBUBUR RAHMAN Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Telecommunication Engineering, Noakhali Science and Technology University. Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science an...

Bu çalışmada Fatma Sultan’ın hayatı, evlilikleri, serveti ve servetinin kaynağı, lüks yaşantısı, ev eşyaları, maddi kültürün önemli unsuru olan giyim-kuşam ürünleri, takı aksesuarları hakkında bilgilere yer verilmiştir. Sultan, babası Sultan I. Ahmed, kardeşleri II. Osman, IV. Murad İbrahim’in saltanatını görmüş, annesi Kösem muktedir olduğu döneme şahit olmuş aynı zamanda yeğeni Mehmed’in hükü...

Chronic bacteriuria is a common occurrence among spinal-cord injury patients and others with neuropathic bladders. If bacteria are present in the urinary tract, the patient may develop symptoms of infection or remain asymptomatic. We have compared virulence properties of 28 Escherichia coli isolates from patients with symptomatic urinary tract infections (UTI) and 29 E. coli isolates from patie...

The Technology Readiness Index (TRI) developed by Parasuraman (2000) was adapted to measure the technology readiness of public school teachers in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The study aims at better understanding the factors (mostly demographics) that affect such readiness levels. In addition, Abu Dhabi teachers are segmented into five main groups, with the highest percentage being “laggar...

1Central Department of Maternal and Child Health, Ministry of Health, Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 2Department of Haematology, Central and Al Jazira Hospitals, Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Received: 10/04/03; accepted: 15/03/04 ABSTRACT In January 2002, a pilot programme of neonatal screening for sickle cell disease was launched in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 3 districts of Abu Dh...

Data replication is a common method used to improve the performance of data access in distributed systems. In this paper, two dynamic replication algorithms, Simple Bottom-Up (SBU) and Aggregate Bottom-Up (ABU), are proposed for the multitier Data Grid. A multi-tier Data Grid simulator called DRepSim is developed for studying the performances of the dynamic replication algorithms. The simulatio...