This pilot study compared second- and fourth-year dental students' perceived values of newly implemented clinical leadership experiences (CLEs) at one U.S. dental school during the 2012-13 academic year. In the CLEs, fourth-year (D4) students mentored second-year (D2) dental students during faculty-supervised patient treatment. The two cohorts' perceived value of the experiences was measured wi...

PURPOSE To investigate barrier function of cultivated limbal and oral mucosal epithelial sheets. METHODS Human and rabbit cultivated limbal epithelial sheets (CLES) and cultivated oral mucosal epithelial sheets (COMES) were subjected to immunohistochemistry for keratin K3, K4, K13, ZO-1, and occludin. Results were compared with those obtained from normal cornea and oral mucosa. Prepared under...

BACKGROUND Clinical learning takes place in complex socio-cultural environments that are workplaces for the staff and learning places for the students. In the clinical context, the students learn by active participation and in interaction with the rest of the community at the workplace. Clinical learning occurs outside the university, therefore is it important for both the university and the st...

The initial visits of the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program revealed a number of findings that appeared to be common across many of the clinical learning environments (CLEs) and six focus areas The CLER protocol did not directly assess for these overarching themes To derive them, the CLER staff generated a list of findings that were common to many CLEs and presented them to th...

An antidote for reproductive learning is to engage learners in active manipulative), constructive, intentional, complex, authentic, cooperative (collaborative and conversational), and reflective learning activities. Those characteristics are the goal of constructivist learning environments (CLEs). This paper presents a model for designing CLEs, which surround a problem/project/issue/question (i...

Cyber threats are serious concerns for power systems. For example, hackers may attack power control systems via interconnected enterprise networks. This paper proposes a risk assessment framework to enhance the resilience of power systems against cyber attacks. The duality element relative fuzzy evaluation method is employed to evaluate identified security vulnerabilities within cyber systems o...

Objective: Coxiella burnetii and -like endosymbionts (CLEs) have been widely discovered in various ticks, animals, even human beings. To estimate the possible origin of C. its relatives CLEs, prevalence CLEs has intensively surveyed all over world. Method: In present study, infection host-seeking Haemaphysalis concinna was performed with meta-transcript analysis tick specimens harvested from Mu...