The tomato is an excellent model for studies of plants bearing berry-type fruits and for experimental studies of the Solanaceae family of plants due to its conserved genetic organization. In this study, a comprehensive mutant tomato population was generated in the background of Micro-Tom, a dwarf, rapid-growth variety. In this and previous studies, a family including 8,598 and 6,422 M(2) mutage...

User Modelling is the core component of every personalisation service provided to various groups of users in an attempt to utilise available recourses in the best possible way. While researching the literature, one can recognise that User Modelling had its first appliance in the area of Intelligent Tutoring and Adaptive Hypermedia Systems, especially in the educational context. With the introdu...

OBJECTIVES To describe nurses' documentation of the content in a psychoeducational intervention inspired by Stuifbergen's model addressing cognitive, supportive and behavioural needs of patient-partner dyads affected by heart failure. DESIGN A descriptive qualitative design was used analysing nurses' documentation in a dialogue guide based on a health promotion model. SETTINGS The dialogue ...

The medicinal plant Plumbago contains a very potent secondary metabolite, plumbagin having many therapeutic properties. Callus culture was induced using explants, leaf, stem and shoot apex, from P. auriculata. Murashige and Skoog media fortified with various growth hormones like NAA, IAA, IBA and 2, 4-D individually and in various combinations were checked for callus induction. Among the growth...

Personalized education aims to give students a personalized learning schedule according to students’ backgrounds and preferences, and the required learning resources for learning are personalized. On-line bookstore allows students to collect learning recourses on-line through Internet, but the problem of information overload plagues students since it is difficult to find the suitable books with...

Security is a major concern when service environments are implemented. This has led to the proposal of a variety of specifications and proposals based on soft computing methods to provide the necessary security for these environments. However, most proposed approaches focus only on ensuring confidentiality and integrity, without putting forward mechanisms that ensure the availability of service...

COVID-19 is a pandemic from pneumonia of unknown origin, first reported in Wuhan city China as information extracted the World Health Organization. It was Sri Lanka on 27 January 2020 by Chinese tourist. Handing situation with scarce recourses within limited time challenging for government hospitals. This paper aims to describe practical and cost-effective actions implemented at Base Hospital U...

Kernel Support Vector Machine delivers state-of-the-art results in non-linear classification, but the need to maintain a large number of support vectors poses a challenge in large scale training and testing. In contrast, linear SVM is much more scalable even on limited computing recourses (e.g. daily life PCs), but the learned model cannot capture non-linear concepts. To scale up kernel SVM on ...

In this project, we aimed to revise the medical ethics curriculum at the School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, in order to promote the level of students' ethical awareness and enable them to make ethical decisions. Ideal and long term educational objectives were set to determine directions for future reforms and to provide a baseline for future evaluation of the project. Ho...

Studies indicate that about 23 percent to 28 percent of the physicians working and residing in the United States, Canada, Australia, the UK and New Zealand were born and trained in the low-income countries, areas suffering from critical shortages of physicians and other health workers. In the US alone, the preponderance of the foreign physicians hails from South Africa, Philippines, India, Paki...