STEAM education is being integrated into elementary schools as a way to engage more students in creativity, hands-on learning, and problem-based learning also referred Challenge-Based-Learning (CBL). This article focuses on educators’ curriculum design for presenting with open-ended questions phrased challenge raise student interest achievement (DeJarnette, 2018; Hunter-Doniger, 2018). When rec...

Este artículo estima dos versiones del índice de desarrollo humano (IDH) para el departamento Valle Cauca en Colombia durante período 2005-2018. Tomando como punto partida las dimensiones planteadas por PNUD (una vida buena y saludable, conocimiento un nivel decente), se calculan IDH convencional alternativo, los cuales diferencian que segundo utiliza la variable Población Económicamente Activa...

introdution: tuberculosis (tb), with different types of respiratory tract involvements, has a high rate of mortality all around the world. endobronchial involvement, which is a slightly common tuberculous infection, requires special attention due to its severe complications such as bronchostenosis. aim of study of this study was describes, one type of pulmonary tuberculosis with less diagnosed ...

We use a revealed preference approach to disentangle conformity, an intrinsic taste to follow others, from information driven herding. We provide observations from a series of sequential decision making experiments in which subjects choose the type of information they observe before making their decision. Namely, subjects choose between observing a private (statistically informative) signal or ...

BACKGROUND There are concerns that testing for type 2 diabetes is low and many people with diabetes are not diagnosed. We sought to describe the rates of diabetes-related lab testing in Ontario from 1995-2005, among adults without diabetes, and to explore the extent to which the Canadian clinical practice guidelines for screening are being followed. METHODS Descriptive counts of outpatient di...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Age, sex, gene and life style are modulating risks for colon cancer. Although alcohol intake may impact on colorectal adenoma, clear association has not been established yet. We aimed to investigate effects of alcohol consumption on the characteristics of colorectal adenoma. METHODS Patients who underwent colonoscopic polypectomy of colorectal adenoma in the department of gast...

An urban cellular automata model has been designed, developed and tested for the city of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia as a research project. The model uses fuzzy set theory to capture the uncertainty associated with the transition rules and employs two automated methods of calibration: a genetic algorithm and simulated annealing. This paper describes the results of the calibration process for three t...

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical and radiological results of patients that underwent total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with a NexGen LPS-Flex implant using a Navigation system (Brain Lab). MATERIALS AND METHODS Between January 2001 and December 2005, 55 knees in 46 patients which used the NexGen LPS-Flex implant with a Navigation system (Brain Lab) for primary TKA were clinically and radiological...