1.0 Abstract As a form of collaborative learning, allowing students to engage in teamwork has been attributed to the retention of information, motivation, critical reasoning, communication and social skills among others (Hansen 2006). However, is the use of teamwork always the right technique? The benefits outlined are dependent on the success of the teamwork initiative which is not guaranteed ...

We extracted data from the French Speaking Registry of Peritoneal Dialysis and retrospectively studied peritonitis outcome 30 patients with polycystic kidney disease firstly treated peritoneal dialysis within our unit since 1997.
 There were 15 men women a mean age 54 years. Eighty-five per-cent had hepatic impairment. Ten did not suffer comorbidities. Charlson comorbidity index was greate...

Experimental vaccine candidates have been evaluated to prevent leishmaniasis, but no commercial vaccine has been proved to be effective against more than one parasite species. LiHyT is a Leishmania-specific protein that was firstly identified as protective against Leishmania infantum. In this study, LiHyT was evaluated as a vaccine to against two Leishmania species causing tegumentary leishmani...

Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method is widely used in many real applications. With the desirable property of efficient handling with the uncertain information in decision making, the fuzzy DEMATEL is heavily studied. Recently, Dytczak and Ginda suggested to defuzzify the fuzzy numbers firstly and then use the classical DEMATEL to obtain the final result. In this sho...

From the perspective of low-carbon, this paper analyzes impact human capital on transformation and upgrading China’s industrial structure. Firstly, it combs relevant literature, then theoretically mechanism structure, selects energy consumption data 30 provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities (excluding Tibet, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan) from 2006 to 2016 Human data, using panel analysis for...

The development of the financial industry directly affects sustainable competitiveness a city and even an economic region, urban finance helps to enhance city. This paper firstly reviews relevant theories explains impact mechanism on in developing regions. It then draws data 17 prefecture-level cities Central China from 2006 2020. uses quantitative research methods, such as principal component ...

Privacy is an important challenge facing the growth of the Web and the propagation of various transaction models supported by it. Decentralized distributed models of computing are used to mitigate privacy breaches by eliminating a single point of failure. However, end-users can still be attacked in order to discover their private information. This work proposes using distributed hierarchical ne...