background: the performance of the community health nurse depends on a combination of scientific and practical competencies acquired by educational experiences during the nursing course. curriculum planners of nursing education need to understand nursing education to train professional and community-oriented nurses. the aim of this article is to explore the experiences of nursing students durin...

Recently, a lot of researches which aim at realization of dynamic biped walking are being performed. There is Honda's ASIMO as a representative of researches of humanoid robots. ASIMO has joints of many degrees of freedom that are near to a human being, high environment adaptability and robustness, and can do various performances. However, it needs many sensors, complicated control, and walks w...

Schistosomiasis is a major healthy problem in China, which is one of most badly suffered four countries in the world, and Schistosoma japonicum infection is prevalent in China. In addition, the snail is the only intermediate snail host of Schistosoma japonicum. Therefore, elimination of snail is an important measure that controls and eliminates schistosomiasis. In order to find out the distribu...

A few days before the start in important competitions, judokas start to anticipate the challenge of sport competition. When the start is closer, most of the competitors experience accumulation of stress. Depending on the mental stress, the body may send signals called somatic stress which makes the body release maximum energy. According to the majority of athletes and coaches, pre-start stress ...

Utilizing resources and research from the University of Alberta Poker research group, we are investigating opponent modeling improvements. Currently, our simple poker bot plays online against instantiations of PokiBots, the poker machine created by the University of Alberta research group. After some decision rule building, our poker bot is competitive. Our next step is to build upon this resea...

This chapter presents the educational value of streaming media combined with asynchronous collaborative learning and describes the particular characteristics and the limitations of the supporting Asynchronous Multimedia Collaborative Systems (AMCL). Then CELSIA, an innovative AMCL system, is described as an example of new trends in AMCL systems that come to address the limitations of the curren...

The number of internet-ready mobile devices is steadily increasing. Today these devices are particularly well accepted among young people who build the main part of the audience in universitary courses. Using smart devices offers a great possibility to increase student-teacher interactions. In this paper, we present an e-learning tool called nuKIT (networked university KIT) which provides inter...

Abstract Generator Artificial Neural Network Figure 1: Hybrid System Architecture and semantic implications. Main verb tense and aspect are examples of syntactic attributes with morphological realisations and semantic/pragmatic consequences. Agent quanti cation and cardinality are semantic features with lexical and syntactic realisation and pragmatic implications. Elaboration, Repetition and Co...

Indian music is primarily melodic. Appreciation of it is supposed to be mainly based on the melodic content and rhythm, and not so much on the timbral content. In north Indian classical vocal music (also known as Hindusthani vocal music) raga forms the base bone. The most common style of performance is khayal. The first part in khayal is known as alap, wherein one tries to establish the image a...

Bioremediation is now the best successful initiative to mitigate and to recover sites contaminated with hydrocarbons and has been the preferred process for clean-up contamination around the oceans of the world. The advantages of marine microorganisms in the removal of petroleum hydrocarbons, exemplifies the eco-sustainable bioremediation that can be achieved in sensitive marine environments and...