It goes without saying that there are many influential factors affecting the success of any learning experience, and teachers are definitely among the significant factors influencing the process of teaching and learning. In this respect, the present study sought to investigate the prediction of Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' learning approaches through their teachers’ nar...

Introduction The "transfemoral (TF) first" approach to access route selection in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is popular; however, the risk of major vascular complications is substantial. The "best for TF" approach identifies only the patients with ideal anatomy for TF-TAVI, potentially minimizing complications. Aim To characterize the outcomes of patients undergoing TAVI at...

The objective is to synthesize a supervisor that forces a given plant to conform to a given formal specification. Timed Automata (TA) with invariants is the model used to describe the plant and the specification, and the synthesis approach consists of using a transformation of TA into particular finite state automata called Set-Exp-Automata.

Purpose: We have recently demonstrated that telomerase activity (TA) is an independent prognostic factor in neuroblastomas. In the present study, the prognostic impact of TA and gene expression of the three major telomerase subunits is evaluated by molecular and immunohistochemical techniques in fresh-frozen and paraffin-embedded tissues. Patients and Methods: One hundred thirty-three neuroblas...

This contribution builds on results from the EU-Project TAMI (Technology Assessment in Europe: Between Method and Impact). The general question to be answered in TAMI was ”How can TA-institutions optimise the impact of their projects?”. TAMI tackled this issue from two perspectives. The first one was straight forward: TA-practitioners must optimise their projects in order to increase their (?) ...

BACKGROUND Because intralesional injection of triamcinolone acetonide (TA), a widely used for the treatment of keloid, is painful, many patients discontinue treatment. We evaluated the effects of pretreatment with topical 60% lidocaine tape on the pain and tolerability of intralesional TA treatment in patients with keloid. METHODS The subjects were 42 patients with keloid who had been treated...

We propose a new perturbation approach ta finite-size elfects near the critical