BACKGROUND The shortage of critical care nurses and the service expansion of 2 intensive care units provided a unique opportunity to create a new model of critical care orientation. The goal was to design a program that assessed critical thinking, validated competence, and provided learning pathways that accommodated diverse experience. OBJECTIVES To determine the effect of a new model of cri...

the main purpose of this research is to develop an islamic social education curriculum model for secondary schools. reaching to this purpose we used the normative method and deduction. investigating the ratio of practicable usage of normative methodology concepts with current subject orientation curriculum, appeared the necessity of change in current value based orientations in social education...

We evaluated orientation discrimination thresholds using an external noise paradigm. Stimuli were spatiotemporal Gaussian patches of 2D orientation noise band-pass filtered in Fourier domain. Orientation acuity was measured for various combinations of stimulus spatial bandwidth, spatial frequency, and size as a function of orientation bandwidths of the stimuli. Stimulus contrast was matched in ...

Fluid flow in jointed rock mass with impermeable matrix is often controlled by joint properties, including aperture, orientation, spacing, persistence and etc. On the other hand, since the rock mass is made of heterogeneous and anisotropic natural materials, geometric properties of joints may have dispersed values. One of the most powerful methods for simulation of stochastic nature of geometri...

As a global feature of fingerprint, orientation field is very important to automatic fingerprint identification system (AFIS). Establishing an accurate and concise model for orientation field will not only improve the performance of orientation estimation, but also make it feasible to apply orientation information into the matching process. In this paper, such a novel model for orientation fiel...