The advent of innovative technologies, such as the audience response system, provides an opportunity to engage students and enhance learning. Based on their experiences, three nursing faculty evaluated the use of an audience response system in four distinct nursing courses through the use of informal survey results. When using the audience response system, the faculty experienced an increased p...

Sensor networks consist of multiple low-cost, autonomous, ad-hoc sensors, that periodically probe and react to the environment and communicate with other sensors or devices. A primary concern in the operation of sensor networks is the limited energy capacity per sensor. As a result, a common challenge is in setting the probing frequency, so as to compromise between the cost of frequent probing ...

With rapid changes in technology and intense competition in the business environment the importance of cultivating and sustaining foresight in multiple-product innovation firms has been propelled to unprecedented heights. Yet, research on the processes through which such firms mobilise foresight in their working environment remains scarce. This paper seeks to explore the different processes thr...

background and aims. changes in the balance of sexual hormones during pregnancy decrease gingival crevicular fluid levels of interleukin-6 and the resistance of gingival tissue against inflammations. hormonal contraceptives are agents that are based on the effects of gestational hormones and simulate a state of pregnancy; therefore, they prevent ovulation. this study evaluates the effect of the...

In an effort to expand the traditional focus on film texts within studies, case studies New Film History have increasingly drawn attention structures and processes that determine as medium social institution. Building this, Cinema (NCH) focuses more radically cinema a cultural institution its importance in everyday life. The central claim of this article is move away from authors has obscured t...

We explore the concept that artists perform best in front of an audience. The negative effects of performance anxiety are much better known than their related cousin on the other shoulder: the positive effects of "social facilitation." The present study, however, reveals a listener's preference for performances recorded in front of an audience. In Study 1, we prepared two types of recordings of...

Measurements of end-to-end available bandwidth is getting increasingly important in the Internet. Many measurement methods are based on analysis of the dispersion of probe packets that have traversed the network according to some probing scheme. In this paper we present a theoretical framework to model interactions, at the discrete packet level, between probe packets and cross-traffic packets f...