There is no published report regarding Iran's aquatic hyphomycetes. In an attempt to identify species of aquatic hyphomycetes in a river in central Iran (Zayande-Roud River), conidial frequency and distribution were determined by filtration. Water samples were collected monthly from two stations 55 km apart and filtered through millipore filters (5 um pore sizes). This was carried out for seven...

In this article, the authors argue that the association between socioeconomic status and motivation for a health-literate health care system has implications for health policymakers. As Ireland now undergoes health care reform, the authors pose the question, "Should policymakers invest in health literacy as predominately a health inequalities or a public health issue?" Data from 2 cohorts of th...

The main goal with this paper is to motivate and coin a variation of literate programming which we call elucidative programming. Elucidative programming is oriented towards program explanation with the purpose of throwing lights on important and complex program relationships. Since proposed by Knuth in 1984, literate programming has been one of the most viable approaches to a radical improvemen...

Mapudungun is spoken by over 900,000 people (Mapuche) in Chile and Argentina. Thanks to an active bilingual and multicultural education program, Mapuche children are now being taught to be literate in both Mapudungun and Spanish. The Chilean Ministry of Education has teamed up with the Language Technologies Institute’s AVENUE project to collect data and produce language technologies that suppor...

Mapudungun is spoken by over 900,000 people (Mapuche) in Chile and Argentina. Thanks to an active bilingual and multicultural education program, Mapuche children are now being taught to be literate in both Mapudungun and Spanish. The Chilean Ministry of Education has teamed up with the Language Technologies Institute’s AVENUE project to collect data and produce language technologies that suppor...

Recently, research on quality issues of business process models has begun to investigate the process of process modeling, i.e., the process of creating process models. In particular, it has been recognized that during this process, well-functioning communication between domain experts and system analysts is essential for understandable process models. This paper proposes the LiProMo approach to...

IN THE US A DISMAL TRUTH EXISTS about the citizenry’s lack of understanding of economic fundamentals. Perhaps the best example which illustrates this point is the April 2010 US Senate Hearings into the financial crisis. JPMorgan Chase’s Managing Director and Senior Economist James E. Glassman expressed in a memo his great frustration with the senators’ shocking lack of understanding of free mar...