BACKGROUND In 1996 Liverpool reformed its medical curriculum from a traditional lecture based course to a curriculum based on the recommendations in Tomorrow's Doctors. A project has been underway since 2000 to evaluate this change. This paper focuses on the views of graduates from that reformed curriculum 6 years after they had graduated. METHODS Between 2007 and 2009 45 interviews took plac...

Five years ago, co-author Ashley Albert surrendered her parental rights to two youngest children the State of Washington. She shares story ostensibly "voluntary" surrender, which was anything but voluntary. This Article goes on address practice permanently severing legal bonds between a parent and child, then State's "replacement" those with new ones via formalized adoption. It informs readers ...

Original scientific paper Numerical simulations of four combustion processes in a dual-fuel combustor of chemically recuperated gas turbine (CRGT) were carried out in this work. The fuels in the four combustion processes were liquid fuel, liquid fuel + steam, liquid fuel + reformed gas and reformed gas, respectively. The mathematical models adopted for different fuels combustion consist of real...

Medical diagnosis over the last decades have been reformed by tomographic imaging and has become a vital tool for diagnosis of several diseases. Magnetic particle imaging (MPI) as a new quantitative imaging method, uses the nonlinear re-magnetization behavior of magnetic nanoparticles to determine their local concentration. This paper presents an overview of a proposed method to design and cons...

Teaching assistants (TAs) that lead reformed recitations and labs must understand and buy into the design of the course and the research-based instructional strategies that the course requires in order to create high-fidelity implementations. We present a model that outlines possible influences on TAs’ buy-in and their in-class actions coupled with a method, using a Real-time Instructor Observa...

A calibration method of indication error grade III standard metallic scale based on length measuring machine is proposed. The existing reformed to realize the scale. According proposed method, evaluation model measurement uncertainty established, and source analysed. expanded less than one third maximum permissible specified in verification regulation, which verifies feasibility effectiveness m...

The main focus of this study is improvement of the steam-methane reforming (SMR) process by in-situ CO2 removal to produce high hydrogen content synthesis gas. Sorption-enhanced (SE) concept is applied to improve process performance. In the proposed structure, the solid phase CO2 adsorbents and pre-reformed gas stream are introduced to a gas-flowing solids-fixed bed reactor (GFSFBR). One dimens...

Today, in the multimedia encoding technology, fractal image coding is an effective coding method without resolution. The effectiveness is because of the high compressing ratio of fractal image coding. But the computational complexity of this coding method is so high that it needs long encoding time. In this paper, a novel fast fractal coding method is constructed to decrease the coding time by ...