introduction: the integration of behavioral and social sciences (bss) into the curriculum of medical students in order to equip them with the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes is an essential issue, emphasized in many researches. our aim is to investigate the barriers to integrate bss into the general medicine curriculum as well as the recommended strategies to overcome such barriers th...

The identification of a beta-cell tracer is a major quest in diabetes research. However, since MRI, PET and SPECT cannot resolve individual islets, optical techniques are required to assess the specificity of these tracers. We propose to combine Optical Coherence Microscopy (OCM) with fluorescence detection in a single optical platform to facilitate these initial screening steps from cell cultu...

This paper presents an attempt to point out some problematic issues about the understanding of context. Although frequently used in cognitive sciences or other disciplines, context stays a very ill-defined concept. Our goal is to identify the main components of the context on the basis of the analysis of a corpus of 150 definitions coming mainly from the web in different domains of cognitive sc...

To facilitate human assembly tasks, Robonaut 2 is equipped with a dexterous, compact hand featuring fingers driven remotely by tendons. This work outlines the force-control strategy for the fingers, which are actuated by an “n +1” tendon arrangement. Existing tendon-driven fingers have applied force control through independent tension controllers on each tendon, in other words, in the tendon sp...

Managing acquired foreign firms often proves to be a challenging task for the acquiring firms. We propose that industry characteristics are very important to an acquiring firm’s actions, suggesting the existence of systematic differences in post-acquisition value creation in different industries. Moreover, the effect of these distinct approaches to value creation is also contingent on the bilat...

nursing research in the middle east: a multi-layer bibliometric study rashidi a * received: 12 aug , 2013 accepted: 26 oct , 2013 abstract background & aims: nurses along with other clinical professions play important role on people's health around the world. however various bibliometric analysis in medical care have shown a notable level of sophistication, a few bibliometric analysis has ...

science-based or scientific interpretation of koran, that is, the accordance of koran to empirical sciences is of greater attraction for educated people specially the youth. for the man’s brilliant developments to achieve new horizons in sciences and discover the unknown in the past centuries, not only dominated him on nature more, but also had a deep effect on a muslim’s viewpoint of the world...

1 Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 08102, USA 2 Biomedical Forensic Sciences Program, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA 3 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 4 School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Australia, Mawson ...

Abstract Science is driven by methodology. In this article, I will show that political science, like all other social sciences, can draw on three fundamentally different methodological traditions. The first a descriptive tradition to generate knowledge describe phenomena and interpret symbols (text, image, audio video). second an explanatory-prognostic explanatory prognostic explain predict eve...