The cheese microbiota, whose community structure evolves through a succession of different microbial groups, plays a central role in cheese-making. The subtleties of cheese character, as well as cheese shelf-life and safety, are largely determined by the composition and evolution of this microbiota. Adjunct and surface-ripening cultures marketed today for smear cheeses are inadequate for adequa...

Discussants play an important role in conferences, yet little practical advice exists to help them make best use of their time beyond informal guidelines. Two new approaches to the intellectual discussion of conference papers are introduced: Group Support Systems and Conversational Learning. The discussant’s role is illustrated with reference to each of these approaches. Recommendations for dis...

This study examined students’ learning strategies to engage in quality interactions in asynchronous online discussions via computer conferencing. Quality interaction in this study was defined as students being able to construct knowledge by engaging in active interactions with others and deep information processing. This study used a mixed-method design and two data sources: observations of onl...

Multimedia communication, with its strong requirements for high speed, assured quality , and reliable networking, is stimulating a great research eeort towards the development of real-time protocols. Some protocols of this type have been proposed, which ooer communication services with diierent levels of commitment in providing quality of service guarantees. In this paper we study the feasibili...

electronicimaging.org • Tel: +1 703 642 9090 • Fax: +1 703 642 9094 • [email protected] describe a study of the dimensionality of visual complexity in computer graphics scenes. We present an experiment where subjects judged the relative complexity of 21 high-resolution building, room, and tabletop scenes, rendered with photorealistic methods. Scenes were gathered from web archives and va...

This study aimed at examining reciprocal associations among teacher–child interactions, teachers' work engagement, and children's social competence across grade 1. The participants were 51 Finnish teachers 815 children. quality of interactions (emotional support, classroom organization, instructional support) was assessed with the Classroom Assessment Scoring System. In addition, reported their...

drug therapy is a complex and important process and because of the importance of drug interactions, especially in in-patients, accompanying problems and obstacles would exist as a result of concomitant use of drugs in these patients. for this purpose 3130 prescription order forms from bou-ali hospital were collected and all potential drug interactions presentwere extracted and evaluated in term...

The study aims to investigate the development of family interactions from pregnancy to preschool age in a longitudinal perspective, using multilevel analysis. Also, it explored the impact of couple relationship and father involvement in childcare on the developmental trend of the quality of mother-father-child interactions. One hundred and three primiparous families were assessed at 7th month o...

Preterm birth has a critical influence on interactive, communicative, and expressive child behaviour, particularly during the first years of life. Few studies have stressed the assessment of mother-father-child interaction in families with preterm children, generating contradictory results. The present study wished to develop these fields: (i) comparing the quality of family interactions betwee...

Systemic drugs have been used widely in the treatment of many skin diseases. Although dermatologists are familiar with the guidelines of selecting appropriate patients and prescribing systemic drugs, their knowledge about the side effects and significant interactions of systemic drugs used in dermatology is more limited. So a short review on important drug interactions seems to be useful. Some ...