Welcome to the 12th Annual International conference on Computational Science, to be held in Omaha, USA. This year’s conference will take place in Omaha, the heart of USA, at the Embassy suites – Downtown/Old Market. ICCS 2012 is organized by the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the University of Tennessee, Nanyang Technological University, and Chinese Academy of Scie...

competency- based mastery learning: a planned clinical experience for nursing students     baghaei r [1] , mohammadpour y [2] *, habibzade h [3] , rasouli d [4] , khalilzadeh h [5] , jafarizadeh h [6]    received: 2 may, 2011 accepted: 6 july, 2011   abstract  background & aims: clinical education is one of the most important and crucial parts of nursing education. successful clinical education...

background: nurses’ clinical competency plays an important role in the care of preterm infants. on the other hand, burnout is one of the most important factors in reducing the nurses’ efficiency. with regard to the importance of the role of nurses, and the vulnerability of the infants, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between nurses’ burnout and clinical competency ...

We propose a two-dimensional evaluation scheme for assessing the quality of implied cost of capital (ICC) estimates when price is noisy. Under fairly general assumptions, high-quality ICC estimates should: (a) better forecast future realized returns, and (b) better forecast future ICCs. Empirically, we compare seven alternative ICC estimates and show that several perform well along both dimensi...

background: nurses are the main members in nursing cares and nursing managers can improve their clinical competency by applying better leadership skills. this study carried out to determine the effect of nursing management program on clinical competency of nurses in a coronary care unit (ccu). methods: a quasi-experimental study was carried out in two educational hospitals in yazd- iran. these ...

— FPGAs have established performance advantages over other processing technologies. Difficulties in achieving high design productivity counterbalance these performance advantages. High-level languages (HLLs) targeting FPGAs together with low-level core libraries have the potential to overcome these productivity challenges. It is desirable to possess an industry standard for the integration of c...

background: faculty members are the main sources of universities. determination and promotion of their competencies lead to the overall performance promotion of universities. faculty members’ teaching competencies have the greatest role in the improvement of education, research and universities social services quality. therefore, in order to investigate this issue more carefully, this study aim...

This study aims to determine and analyze the effect of professional competence communication on work productivity through teacher discipline. research was a quantitative with path analysis. The population 172 sample 120 people. data were collected using instruments consisting (47 items), (30 discipline (31 (35 items) that have been tested for validity reliability. analysis this used results fou...

Objective: Ecosystems with mixed species compared to the ones with pure compositions provide a broader range of options in the fields of biodiversity, conservation, protection and restoration. Nearly all forest plantations are established as monocultures, but research has shown that there are potential advantages to be gained by using carefully designed species mixtures in place of monocultures...