Past studies indicate that students demonstrate different online interaction styles, which consist of the ways or habits students acquire knowledge from computer-mediated discussions (Sutton, 2001). Such interaction styles include the active interaction style (Beaudion, 2002), the vicarious interaction style (Sutton, 2001), and the mixed or balanced-interaction style. The purpose of this explor...

Efforts during the past 5 to 10 years to increase the proportion of patients in the United States who receive maintenance hemodialysis via a native arteriovenous (AV) fistula have been successful. In 2008, 55% of prevalent patients in the United State were undergoing dialysis via a fistula compared with only 35% in 2003 (1,2). Despite this substantial progress, challenges remain, among the most...

Decreased hepatic function in patients with hepatoma or liver metastasis monitored by a hepatocyte specific galactosylated radioligand Summary 9'Tc-galactosylated neoglycoalbumin ("mTc-NGA) is a hepatocyte-specific tracer that, after injection into the blood stream, delivers radioactivity selectively to the liver. This is based upon chemical recognition and binding by the hepatic binding protei...