We are developing an intelligent tutoring environment to teach cardiac auscultation; it will allow students to learn by doingg, while being guided by an expert car-diologist. Auscultation is the process of listening to the body for sounds, and using those sounds as clues to diagnosis. Tutoring auscultation is a diicult task because students must be taught to hear new sounds, and to understand t...

A. Belhaj, M. Chabab,b,1 H. El Moumni, K. Masmar, M.B. Sedra and A. Segui Département de Physique, Faculté Polydisciplinaire, Université Sultan M. Slimane, Béni Mellal, Morocco High Energy Physics and Astrophysics Laboratory, FSSM, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco Université Mohammed Premier, Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées, Al Hoceima, Morocco Département de Physique, LHESIR, ...

A Case Report of Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma in a Young Male Anna Giulia Bottaccioli1*, Natale Porta2, Piero Maceroni3, Marco Maceroni4, Jessica Cacciotti2, Cesare Alessandri1, Carlo Della Rocca2, Andrea Laghi4 and Vincenzo Petrozza2 1Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Internal Medicine Unit, Sapienza University of Rome, ICOT Hospital, Latina, Italy 2Department of M...

Mammography is widely recognized as the most reliable technique for early detection of breast cancers. Automated or semi-automated computerized classification schemes can be very useful in assisting radiologists with a second opinion about the visual diagnosis of breast lesions, thus leading to a reduction in the number of unnecessary biopsies. We present a computer-aided diagnosis (CADi) syste...

Sexual aggregation inyo}yed in coajugative transfer of Ehterococcus,faecalis plasmid pADI is enhanced by the sex pheremone cADI, which is excreted from recipient cells. A membrane-anchored 137 kDa protein is a pADI-encoded aggregation substance designated asal, which is responsible for cell-cell contact and leads to the aggregation of cells. An AD74 protein is a proteolytic product correspondin...

Objectives of the study were to describe the frequency of acne in late adolescent and adult students and to evaluate psychosocial impact of the disease. It was a cross-sectional study conducted in four institutions, from June to August 2008. Questionnaires with Cardiff Acne Disability Index (CADI) were filled by 950 students. They were examined for presence and severity of acne. Age ranged from...

BACKGROUND Acne vulgaris (acne) is a common adolescent skin condition. It is associated with negative psychological impacts and sufferers do not easily seek help, hence is undertreated. OBJECTIVES We investigated the self-reported prevalence, severity and psychological sequelae of acne, together with assessing help-seeking behaviour and its barriers, in separate school and hospital samples. W...

فرزند‌پروری پس از طلاق یکی تکالیف حساس پیش روی والدین مُطلقه، و عوامل مؤثر در سلامت روانی فرزندان به شمار می‌آید. هدف این مطالعه کشف تبیین تجارب زیسته‌ هم‌والدگری است. روش کیفی با استفاده پدیدارشناسی توصیفی انجام شد. جامعه پژوهش شامل کلیه‌ والدینی بود که تجربه‌ فرزندپروری را داشته‌اند. برای تعیین حجم نمونه معیار اشباع داده شد نمونه‌گیری هدفمند تعداد 12 نفر (زن، مرد) انتخاب شدند مورد مصاحبه‌ نیمه...