Background There is an overall increasing tendency at medical universities around the world to digitize microscope histopathological slides from teaching collections for web-based studies [1]. For the last seven academic years (2005 2012), we have developed and evaluated a user-friendly on-line interactive teaching and examination system to facilitate student access to Pathology of the Oral Cav...

Background China has the largest numbers of cancer patients worldwide but has limited pathology resources. According to a survey done by Chinese Pathologists Association, a large number of pathologists in clinical practice in China has only one year of formal or informal training. Only in recent year, formal pathology residency programs similar to those of Western countries are available in a c...

The objective of the project was to develop a web-based digital tool called Water Security Assessment Tool (WATSAT) help city authorities and decision-makers make an evaluation water security situation in city. It uses indicator-based methodology that measures five distinct dimensions (broad elements) security: “Water supply sanitation”, productivity”, “Water-related disasters”, environment”, g...

Introduction Classic practical Teaching of pathology for both under & post graduates requires microscopes and glass slides. Medical schools in developing countries are confronted with many challenges, among them, the large number of the students especially if this is compared with the limited resources of the medical schools. Furthermore, the high cost of acquisition and maintenance of microsco...

This paper presents a closed form yield model that takes into account constraints of an architecture. It applies to architectures that approximate global redundancy and for which the constraints translate into yield losses. The impact of the constraints on yield was evaluated by calculating the probability of observing non-tolerable defect patterns and by subtracting these probabilities from yi...