BACKGROUND The recently published Sixth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC VI) includes a classification of blood pressure stages and a new risk stratification component. Patients with high-normal blood pressure or hypertension are stratified into risk group A (no associated cardiovascular disease risk factors, ...

INTRODUCTION In-service training of nurses plays an indispensable role in improving the quality of inpatient care. Need to enhance the effectiveness of in-service training of nurses is an inevitable requirement. This study attempted to design a new optimal model for in-service training of nurses. METHODS This qualitative study was conducted in two stages during 2015-2016. In the first stage, ...

In line with the constructivist view of education, Problem-based Learning (PBL) facilitates active construction of knowledge through engaging with information in the context of meaningful problems or situations, and by using high level learning strategies. Most research in PBL seems to focus on the implementation of PBL as a teaching approach. The role of assessment in enhancing the type of lea...

Our submission for this NLI shared task used for the most part standard features found in recent work. Our focus was instead on two other aspects of our system: at a high level, on possible ways of constructing ensembles of multiple classifiers; and at a low level, on the granularity of part-of-speech tags used as features. We found that the choice of ensemble combination method did not lead to...

BACKGROUND In the Netherlands, low risk women receive midwife-led care and can choose to give birth at home or in hospital. There is concern that transfer of care during labour from midwife-led care to an obstetrician-led unit leads to negative birth experiences, in particular among those with planned home birth. In this study we compared sense of control, which is a major attribute of the chil...

In this paper a new method for image retrieval using high level semantic features is proposed. It is based on extraction of low level color, shape and texture characteristics and their conversion into high level semantic features using fuzzy production rules, derived with the help of an image mining technique. DempsterShafer theory of evidence is applied to obtain a list of structures containin...

This paper is the first of a two part series. In this paper, we first prove that the variety of dually quasi-De Morgan Stone semi-Heyting algebras of level 1 satisfies the strongly blended $lor$-De Morgan law introduced in cite{Sa12}. Then, using this result and the results of cite{Sa12}, we prove our main result which gives an explicit description of simple algebras(=subdirectly irreducibles) ...

â â â  many of environmental conditions are explainable, either directly or indirectly with regard to topographical changes in pressure levels of high atmosphere. thus, studying this subject is great importance. in this article, after determining the threshold of flood in catchment, altitudinal data of 500 hp level for 44 storms generating floods during (1370_1384) were processed using the fact...