Organizations producing products based on technical standards are interested in the factors that influence a customers’ intention to adopt that product, and accordingly that standard. In general, standards-based products are expected to be affected by factors similar to those that affect ordinary innovations, as described in Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations with the addition of a few factors in...

background and purpose: a 3-unit course is dedicated to general language in medical universities and the vocabulary and text structure of the courses have usually no relation to medical language. we examine whether teaching general language will be as effective as medical language as assessed through recall of general and medical vocabulary and text structure knowledge. methods: an experimental...

The recent exponential growth of high-speed Internet connections has created a huge demand for ubiquitous access links to the Internet, and mobile Internet services on cellular or wireless LAN networks have increased rapidly. A major role of mobile satellite communication networks is to provide ubiquitous broadband services. The target users of these services are people who do not have access t...

A set of agents arrive simultaneously to a service facility. Each agent requires the facility for a certain length of time and incurs a cost for each unit of time spent in queue. Attached to each agent is an index, which is the ratio of her waiting cost rate to processing time. Efficiency dictates that the agents be served in decreasing order of their indices. If monetary compensations are disa...

Introduction Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) has rapidly become the imaging method of choice for the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, and its clinical indications have expanded greatly in the last decade [1]. Although the majority of CMR examinations is still performed at a field strength of 1.5 Tesla, the growing availability of 3 Tesla scanners has resulted in an increasing number of CMR...