background thrombolytic therapy in patients with sub-massive pulmonary embolism (smpte) needs further assessment. objectives the current study aimed to assess a potential benefit of thrombolytic and non-thrombolytic therapy in patients with smpte. patients and methods one hundred-nineteen patients were enrolled with smpte from 2006 to 2010 in the tertiary care center of rajaie medical and resea...

massive hemoptysis is one of the most important respiratory emergencies and pulmonary infiltrating diseases are among the rare causes of hemoptysis. bronchial artery embolization (bae) is a safe and effective treatment in these patients. our case was a 45 years old woman with a 7 year history of hodgkin's lymphoma who presented with massive hemoptysis of 20 days duration. ct scan revealed prebr...

The following paper describes the results of an experiment in the hybrid use a newly developed online platform for what we are calling contemplative reading. First taught in face to face courses, the platform was developed to help students engage with Dante’s Divine Comedy at multiple levels by mimicking in digital form the medieval manuscript’s marginalia and reflective aspects. The analysis d...

In this paper we introduce an automated assessment service for online learning support in the context of communities of learners. The goal is to introduce automatic tools to support the task of assessing massive number of students as needed in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). The final assessments are a combination of tutor’s assessment and peer assessment. We build a trust graph over the re...

This policy paper addresses organizational areas for improvement when universities start producing MOOCs. These areas surface in the intersection between educational practice and MOOC policies, and they will be discussed in three parts in the paper. First, we describe the organizational context in which this paper is based. Second, we outline four organizational challenges that can shape the co...

Given the increasing number of students registering to MOOCs for free, course instructors who want to go beyond automated evaluation have no choice but to use peer assessment. Despite the increasing use of peer evaluation, very little is known regarding the factors that influence assessors’ engagement in the process. Based on two editions of Introduction to Project Management, the first French ...