The knowledge of what career to specialize in could be a late discovery for adults who have traded their youthful years through several professions/vocations but found no fulfillment. On the other hand, it could be a strenuous exercise for children and youths who are exposed to different academic areas. The aim of this project is to develop a career-advisor expert system based on Myer-Briggs Pe...

I am interested in the liminal area between science and the arts. Th e separation of the two is evident in our culture 1 : science, objective and logical; art, subjective and intuitive. For me this separation was always a bit strange. I am a performer, an actor in Playback Th eatre, an improvisation form based on real-life stories. 2 I am also a scientist, trained as a computational neuroscient...

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) technology may reduce fuel consumption and tailpipe emissions in many mediumand heavyduty vehicle vocations, including school buses. The true magnitude of these reductions is best assessed by comparative testing over relevant drive cycles. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) collected and analyzed real-world school bus drive cycle data, and sel...

Messengers is a paradigm for the programming of distributed systems. It is based on the principles of autonomous messages, called Messengers, which carry their own behavior in the form of a program. This enables them to navigate freely in the underlying computational network, communicate with one another, and invoke compiled node-resident C functions in the nodes they visit. Hence a distributed...

BACKGROUND Agricultural work in the United States and Canada continues to be one of the most dangerous vocations. Surveillance evidence suggests that older farmers (>60 years of age) are at greater risk of serious injury than their younger counterparts. The purpose of this article was to outline illnesses and medications that may contribute to older farmers' increased risk of agricultural injur...

INTRODUCTION Since the number of applicants to residencies in general surgery in Argentina seems to be decreasing, we designed this work with the objective of studying the factors considered undesirable by students when choosing surgery as a specialty. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between March and April 2012, one-hundred students were surveyed with a structured questionnaire with true/false binary a...

In the domain of pattern recognition, experiments have shown that perceivers integrate multiple sources of information in an optimal manner. In contrast, other research has been interpreted to mean that decision making is nonoptimal. As an example, Tversky and Kahneman (1983) have shown that subjects commit a conjunction fallacy because they judge it more likely that a fictitious person named L...

in the present century, which is the age of rapid growth of technology and knowledge, in addition to the development of formal teaching, increasing attention has been paid to distant education by various organizations and societies. this paper is a report of a research entitled “a study of the success and obstacles of distant education services project of khorassan province literacy organizatio...

OBJECTIVE To assess the utility of toe-to-finger transfers (TFTs) for post-traumatic reconstruction of the fingerless hand. DESIGN A case series. SETTING A regional trauma centre. PATIENTS Eight men, mean age was 36 years (range from 25-59 yr), who had lost all the fingers from a hand due to a crush-degloving injury (6 patients), frostbite (1 patient) or a burn injury (1 patient). INTER...