introduction: programs must demonstrate that their residents are taught and assessed in professionalism. most programs struggle with finding viable ways to teach and assess this critical competency. uthscsa family and community medicine residency developed an innovative option for interactive learning and assessment of residents in this competency which would be transferrable to other programs ...

now that rapid changes in deferent aspects of human life have become a reality, innovations in policies and different programs can not be a motto but a necessity. islamic revolution of iran was an innovative phenomenon and iran-iraq war was a space for our inner abilities and creativities to burst out. doubtlessly, in narrating this war to our next generations, we must consider this principle, ...

the prevalent communications networks suffer from lack of spectrum and spectrum inefficiency. this has motivated researchers to develop cognitive radio (cr) as a smart and dynamic radio access promised solution. a major challenge to this new technology is how to make fair assignment of available spectrum to unlicensed users, particularly for smart grids communication. this paper introduces an i...

in recent years, there has been a great concern about strategic supply chain management. the supply chain configuration approach is related to strategic management of material and information flows. most of suggested configurations in the part of strategic direction are based on environmental factors and structure-conduct-performance approach. exploring supply chain configuration with emphasis ...

Local binary pattern (LBP) operators, which measure the local contrast within a pixel's neighborhood, successfully applied to texture analysis, visual inspection, and image retrieval. In this paper, we recommend a semi blind and informed watermarking approach. The watermark has been built from the original image using Weber Law. The approach aims is to present a high robustness and imperceptibi...

In response to calls for ‘Innovation in Higher Education’ from the Flemish Community in Belgium, an innovative course ‘ILO’ is being developed as an alternative approach to traditional introductory statistics courses. It is a cooperative project of the universities of Gent, Leuven and Brussel. The innovative course is characterized by: independent learning, adaptation of the delivered materials...