Franklin BM, Xiang L, Collett JA, Rhoads MK, Osborn JL. Open problem-based instruction impacts understanding of physiological concepts differently in undergraduate students. Adv Physiol Educ 39: 327–334, 2015; doi:10.1152/advan.00082.2015.—Student populations are diverse such that different types of learners struggle with traditional didactic instruction. Problem-based learning has existed for ...

screening and identification of moderately halophilic protease producing bacteria from different regions of maharloo, a hypersaline lake in the southern area of iran, were the objectives of this study. in the preliminary screening, 16 isolates exhibited proteolytic activity on saline skim milk agar. all isolates were able to grow comfortably in the media containing 7-15% of salt. protease activ...

introduction although the concept of ecotourism as the ideal of environmental protection and sustainable development is based on the global current the role of human interference in the nature is more than that of natural conditions. because of this, there is still a vulnerable stability condition. other scholars including carter and caudal are in doubt about tourism and environmental sustainab...

We consider hybrid optical devices consisting of a waveband (transparent optical) and a wavelength (opaque OEO) switch. Such hybrid devices are suitable for supporting hierarchical optical paths (wavelength and waveband paths). We study the node-level costperformance tradeoffs using both analytical models and simulations. The results demonstrate a significant cost reduction that could be achiev...

Use of new techniques to evaluate irrigation areas can enhance water use efficiency in agriculture. In this study, the fuzzy analytic hierarchy Process (FAHP) was used to qualitative land suitability for sprinkler irrigation and was compared with the parametric method. Evaluation based on parametric method showed that an area of about 1597.83 hectares (31%) of the lands was highly suitable (S1)...

We calculate the eeects of including dynamical fermion loops in the lattice QCD estimates of meson decay constants, by extrapolating the results from negative avour numbers after a suitable matching of the pion and rho mass. For moderately light quarks, the values of the decay constants not corrected for the renormalization constants increase with respect to their quenched values.

Abstract We introduce a new metric homology theory, which we call Moderately Discontinuous Homology, designed to capture Lipschitz properties of singular subanalytic germs. The main novelty our approach is allow “moderately discontinuous” chains, are specially advantageous for capturing the subtleties outer phenomena. Our invariant finitely generated graded abelian group any and homomorphisms ....

During recent years, increasing exploitation of groundwater aquifers has caused a substantial and sharp drop in groundwater table in the plains of Iran. Artificial discharge of aquifer using flood spreading in plains is an approach that has been implemented in many parts of the country so far. In this method, by flowing flood into the aquifer, will control flooding and soil conservation. In add...