This study aimed to derive psychometric characteristics ‎of a Jordanian version of the Autism Spectrum Rating ‎Scale (ASRS) for ages 6–18..To achieve aim ‎study, autism spectrum ‎disorder scale was prepared and applied random ‎sample consisting 370 individuals diagnosed with ‎autism disorder, in age group 6–18 years. ‎The findings showed that diagnostic treatment ‎scale items on ‎spectrum disor...

This study focuses on learning in three different hypermedia environments that either support autonomous learning, learner-controlled learning or system-controlled learning and explores the mediating role of academic self-regulation style ( ASRS; i.e., a macro level of motivation) on learning. This to gain more insight in the conditions under which learning in hypermedia environments is effecti...

BACKGROUND Estimated cancer mortality statistics were published for the years 2011 and 2012 for the European Union (EU) and its six more populous countries. PATIENTS AND METHODS Using logarithmic Poisson count data joinpoint models and the World Health Organization mortality and population database, we estimated numbers of deaths and age-standardized (world) mortality rates (ASRs) in 2013 fro...

To better understand the nature of impairment resulting from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) for students in a post-secondary education (PSE) setting, the authors analyzed the symptoms and associated impairment of 135 students with a diagnosis of ADHD who were recruited via Student Disability Services in Canadian post-secondary institutions. The authors (a) developed a novel sem...

Background: The biochemical characteristics of the follicular fluid (FF) play essential role in oocyte quality, the subsequent fertilization potential and embryo development. The oocyte quality and metabolism largely depends on follicular microenvironment. Present study aimed to investigate the relationship between oocyte quality and FF homocysteine (Hcy) level in women undergoing to IVF treatm...

This paper analyses the influence of residual stresses and strain hardening due to the cold rollforming process on the load carrying capacity of perforated rack columns. First of all, a residual strain distribution of the manufacturing process is obtained via a finite element analysis and then it is introduced in the model as initial state to carry out a nonlinear buckling analysis. Two differe...

Autonomous robots in unstructured and dynamically changing retail environments have to master complex perception, knowledge processing, and manipulation tasks. To enable them to act competently, we propose a framework based on three core components: (◦) A background knowledge enabled perception system, which is capable of combining diverse information sources to cope with challenging conditions...

For modern Internet data centers, a key challenge to meeting the immense compute, storage, and networking needs of next-generation applications is the ability of the underlying infrastructure to scale. An important new trend in this direction is the introduction of socalled “rack scale” computers, which are large numbers of tightly integrated systems-on-chip (SoC) processors, interconnected wit...

(4) In the remaining tubes of each row is placed 0.5 ml. of 0.85% sodium chloride. (5) To the first tube of each row 0.1 ml. of serum is added and mixed thoroughly. (6) Then 0.5 ml. of the diluted serum is carried over into tube 2 and so on until tube 10, the last 0.5 ml. being discarded. (7) To each tube 0.5 ml. of washed fresh sheep cells is added, thus giving a final serum dilution of 1:20 u...

Described in this report is a method for the fabrication of a versatile , inexpensive rack for microcentrifuge tubes that offers distinct advantages over conventional plastic racks. In addition to holding a larger number of samples than conventional plastic racks, this rack can also support samples in an ice slurry or shallow water bath. Since these racks take about five minutes to make and cos...