this study sought the relationship between short-term in-service development programs for efl teachers and their teaching practice in high schools. the objectives were to determine the relationship between: 1) the components of the programs for efl teachers and their practice in class, and 2) efl teachers’ perception of the programs and their practice in class. data were collected through quest...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Computed tomography (CT) is used to study coronary artery plaques, but little is known about its potential to characterize plaque composition. This study assesses the relation between carotid calcium score (CCS) by CT and plaque composition, namely extracellular matrix, inflammatory mediators, and calcium metabolites. METHODS Thirty patients with significant carotid ste...

The objective of this study was to determine the functional properties of cartilaginous tissues generated by porcine MSCs isolated from different tissue sources, and to compare these properties to those derived from chondrocytes (CCs). MSCs were isolated from bone marrow (BM) and infrapatellar fat pad (FP), while CCs were harvested from the articular surface of the femoro-patellar joint. Cultur...

The cardiac conduction system (CCS) initiates and coordinately propagates the electrical impulse to orchestrate the heartbeat. It consists of a set of interconnected components with shared properties. A better understanding of the origin and specification of CCS lineages has allowed us to better comprehend the etiology of CCS disease and has provided leads for development of therapies. A variet...

Text detection and recognition is a hot topic for researchers in the field of image processing. It gives attention to Content based Image Retrieval (CBIR) community in order to fill the semantic gap between low level and high level features. Several methods have been developed for text detection and extraction that achieve reasonable accuracy for natural scene text (camera images) as well as mu...

PURPOSE The development of clinical problem-solving skills evolves over time and requires structured training and background knowledge. Computer-based case simulations (CCS) have been used for teaching and assessment of clinical reasoning skills. However, previous studies examining the psychometric properties of CCS as an assessment tool have been controversial. Furthermore, studies reporting t...

“Content Cruising System (CCS)” is developed as a decentralized and autonomous distribution system for location-based contents. The content put into CCS carries itself to the destination location and tries to remain there by continual wireless ad-hoc communications among mobile nodes. Focusing on the density of nodes, to tackle the Broadcast Storm problem is imperative. CCS has an avoidance mec...

This paper presents a way to verify CCS (without renaming) specifications using tree regular model checking. From a term rewriting system and a tree automaton representing the semantics of CCS and equations of a CCS specification to analyse, an over-approximation of the set of reachable terms is computed from an initial configuration. This set, in the framework of CCS, represents an over-approx...

The cardiac conduction system (CCS) consists of distinctive components that initiate and conduct the electrical impulse required for the coordinated contraction of the cardiac chambers. CCS development involves complex regulatory networks that act in stage-, tissueand dose-dependent manners, and recent findings indicate that the activity of these networks is sensitive to common genetic variants...