BACKGROUND There is a need for new knowledge regarding determinants of a successful implementation of new methods in health care. The role of a receptive context for change to support effective diffusion has been underlined, and could be studied by assessing the organizational climate. The aim of this study was to assess the association between organizational climate when a computer-based lifes...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Candida species are the most opportunistic fungi affecting the nails and resulting in onychomycosis. In this study, we identified and evaluated in-vitro susceptibility of the recovered isolates against fluconazole (FLC), voriconazole (VRC), and clotrimazole (CLT) using the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) M27-A3 document. MATERIALS AND METHODS From pat...

CONTEXT TSH receptor (TSHR) blocking antibodies (Abs) inhibit TSH-induced thyroid growth and function in some adults with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis (CLT), but their role in the pediatric age range is unknown. OBJECTIVES Our objectives were: 1) to determine the prevalence of TSHR blocking Abs in children and adolescents with CLT and 2) assess their functional significance both in vivo an...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the prognosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) patients according to different pathologic grades of lymphocytic thyroiditis (LT). MATERIALS AND METHODS This study included 144 PTC patients who underwent total thyroidectomy with radioactive iodine remnant ablation therapy. Pathologic grades of LT were separated at two points, chronic lymphoc...

With the continually increasing complexity of e-learning environments, there is a need for integrating concepts of cognitive load theory (CLT) with concepts of human–computer interaction (HCI). Basic concepts of both fieldswere reviewed and contrasted. A literature reviewwas conductedwithin the literature database ‘‘The Guide to Computing Literature,” searching for ‘‘cognitive load theory” and ...

Growing evidence from online credibility research reveals that online users rely on heuristic processes to evaluate the credibility of online information. The current paper, which is based on the construal level theory (CLT), proposes that congruency between the psychological distance of a stimulus and the way it is mentally construed can act as a heuristic for believability. According to CLT, ...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain whether the parathyroid hormone (PTH) secretion of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) uremic patients could be suppressed by repeated subcutaneous injections of calcitriol (CLT). DESIGN Nonrandomized prospective study with weekly evaluation. SETTING Hospital CAPD clinic. PATIENTS Seven uremic CAPD patients with signs of severe hyperparathyroidism. IN...

We study the behavior of innnite systems of coupled harmonic oscillators as the time t ! 1, and generalize the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) to show that their reduced Wigner distributions become Gaussian under quite general conditions. This shows that generalized coherent states tend to be produced naturally. A suucient condition for this to happen is shown to be that the spectral function is an...

Almost sure versions of limit theorems by Kruglov for the Pearson χ 2-statistic are obtained. 1. Introduction and preliminary results. Several papers are devoted to almost sure (a.s.) versions of central limit theorems (CLT), for a review see Berkes [1]. In this section we study a new version of the standard procedure (see Lacey and Philipp [5]) to prove an a.s. limit theorem. We use a strong l...

At Crypto 2013, Coron, Lepoint, and Tibouchi (CLT) proposed a practical Graded Encoding Scheme (GES) over the integers, which has very similar cryptographic features to ideal multilinear maps. In fact, the scheme of Coron et al. is the second proposal of a secure GES, and has advantages over the first scheme of Garg, Gentry, and Halevi (GGH). For example, unlike the GGH construction, the subgro...