The value of non-invasive procedures for predicting pulmonary arterial pressure was investigated in 370 patients with chronic obstructive lung diseases and in 73 with fibrosing alveolitis in a combined study at nine centres in six European countries. Measurements included forced expiratory volume in one second, arterial blood gas tensions, standard electrocardiogram, radiographic dimensions of ...

educational needs assessment of information and communication technology (itc) determines basic and specialized skill needs of human resources in the ict. this study investigated educational needs of information and communication technology (ict) in faculty members of physical education, universities of east azerbaijan province. data were collected usinga researcher-made questionnaire (the reli...

The basic goal of this research was to examine which aspects work motivation and perfectionism predict workaholism, in order identify potential risk factors. Workaholism is defined as an internal need excessively that damages our health psychosocial well-being, leading long-term exhaustion inefficacy. Intrinsic stems from the feeling satisfaction inherent doing work-related tasks using professi...

Warren Weaver is the person generally credited with exciting interest in the possibilities of mechanical translation (MT) in the United States. (Earlier proposals came from a Russian, P. P. Smirnoff-Troyanski, and independently from a Frenchman, Artsouni.) His letter on the subject to some 200 of his colleagues in 1949 may be regarded as the beginning of this endeavor. The international confere...

For a broad range of research, governmental and commercial applications it is important to understand the allegiances, communities and structure of key players in society. One promising direction towards extracting this information is to exploit the rich relational data in digital social networks (the social graph). As social media data sets are very large, most approaches make use of distribut...

Almost all environmental stresses induce oxidative stress in plants as an early and rapid response (Bolkhina et al., 2003). Under drought stress, overproduction of highly reactive oxygen species (ROS) in chloroplasts, represented by the superoxide anion (O2 ·-), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), hydroxyl radical (·OH) and singlet oxygen (O2) has been reported (Smirnoff, 2002; Foyer and Noctor, 2003). T...