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The purpose of this study was to assess the views of staff members and staff training initiators on how the current staff trainings were conducted and contributed to quality training/ education at Haramaya University. In the process of this study, evidences were collected from academic staff members, center coordinators and professional development training facilitators. Data collecting instrum...

Pan African Medical Journal. 2015; 20:242 doi:10.11604/pamj.2015.20.242.6358 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/20/242/full/ © Hannah Janeway et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2...

Background: The relationship between BMI and leptin has been studied extensively in the past, but previous reports in postmenopausal women have not been conducted under carefully controlled dietary conditions of weight maintenance using precise measures of body fat distribution. The aim of the present study was to examine the association between serum leptin concentration and adiposity as estim...

The efficiency benefits achievable via cross-training in call and service center environments where agents serve distinct customer types are investigated. This is achieved by first considering specialized agents grouped into N departments according to the customer type they serve. Then, cross-training policies that pool a set of departments into a single larger department that serves all of the...

BACKGROUND Generating good training datasets is essential for machine learning-based nuclei detection methods. However, creating exhaustive nuclei contour annotations, to derive optimal training data from, is often infeasible. METHODS We compared different approaches for training nuclei detection methods solely based on nucleus center markers. Such markers contain less accurate information, e...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine whether beneficial effects on glycemic control of an initial laboratory-supervised resistance training program could be sustained through a community center-based maintenance program. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We studied 57 overweight (BMI >or=27 kg/m2) sedentary men and women aged 40-80 years with established (>6 months) type 2 diabetes....

dār al-funūn is the first center for systematic modern science education and new military training in iran. as far as the military disciplines are concerned, theoretical and practical training of the steudents, as well as troops and officers, authoring and translating books on military disciplines, regular examinations and upbringing a generation of students in new military tactics are the most...

Background: Previous studies have reported on the promising effects of changing running style in patients with chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS) using a 6-week training program aimed at adopting a forefoot strike technique. This study expands that work by comparing a 6-week in-house, center-based run training program with a less extensive, supervised, homebased run training program...