Education is one of the key sectors that has benefited from the continuous developments and innovations in information and communication technology (ICT). Web-based facilities now provide a medium for learning and a vehicle for information dissemination and knowledge creation (Khine, 2003). Accordingly, developments in ICTs provide opportunities for educators to expand and refine frameworks for...

Childhood lead poisoning in the United States remains a persistent, prevalent environmental public health problem, especially for children living in central-city neighborhoods. These neighborhoods typically are racially segregated, are in proximity to current and/or legacy lead emission sources, consist of older housing, and contain disproportionately African American or black children of low-i...

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Mobile IP has seen slow deployment for two major reasons; the need for enhancing edge routers with Home Agent/Foreign Agent functionality and the fact that triangle routing in such systems is not efficient. Triangle Routing is defined as the route that must be taken through the Home Agent for any traffic sent by the Correspondent Node to the Mobile Node. This route is triangle in nature and lon...

Stiffness is an uncommon complication after total knee arthroplasty, but at the same time it is a disabling problem for many patients. Outcomes of revision surgery for a stiff knee following arthroplasty have not been well evaluated, to our knowledge. The purpose of this literature is to define prevalence of stiffness after primary total knee replacement and also to evaluate the efficacy of rev...

A hybrid ray-mode formulation is presented as an attractive alternative to the generalized ray formulation or normal mode formulation for the construction of synthetic seismograms. By the hybrid method, the motion is expressed as a combination of ray fields, modal fields, and a remainder. The number of retained ray fields can be chosen at will, and the required number of modes is thereby determ...

Authors Lynette M. Sholl, MD, FCAP* Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Aleodor Andea, MD, MBA, FCAP Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor, Michigan Julia Bridge, MD, FCAP Department of Pathology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska Liang Cheng, MD, FCAP Department of Pathology, Indiana University, Indian...

Tampoco está establecido hasta qué punto esta reacción inmunitaria puede influir en el pronóstico del linfoma. Los linfomas cutáneos granulomatosos normalmente tienen un curso lentamente progresivo, aunque cerca del 50% de los mismos desarrollan linfomas nodales de evolución fatal. Resulta paradójica la incongruencia histológica (pleomorfismo, destrucción de anejos, monoclonalidad T) y la favor...

Background: Health is a very essential issue in our world. From the classic and traditional medicine point of view, our surroundings and habitat including geographic location, climatic conditions , eating and drinking habits , training and emotions, contribute to a healthy life style. With an overview in traditional medicine, it is clear that there is another important aspect in preventive medi...

Abstract In the United States, there is a growing interest in understanding heat stress lower-income and racially isolated neighborhoods. This study spatially identifies heat-vulnerable neighborhoods, evaluates relationship between race/ethnicity temperature exposure, emphasizes differences among Hispanics by origin to capture environmental injustices Santa Clara County (SCC), CA. The current m...