background and purpose: lesson plan is considered a vital component of the teacher training and successful teachers are in variably good planners and thinkers. the present study was conducted to survey the academic staff’s views about lesson plan in shiraz university of medical sciences in 2001. moreover, considering the finding of the study there was an attempt to seek the experts’ views on ho...

In a bid to study consumers preference and perception of the different types of meat among staff and students of the University of Ibadan, a well structured questionnaire was administered to 370 randomly sampled respondents staff and students of the University. The respondents belong to different categories within the university: Non Academic Staff Union 17 (4.6%); Senior Staff Association of N...

The present television system was designed nearly 50 years ago. Since then, there have been significant developments in technology, which are highly relevant to the television industries. For example, advances in the very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) technology and signal processing theories make it feasible to incorporate frame-store memory and sophisticated signal processing capabilities in...

Introduction / objectives Antibiotics are amongst the most sold drugs. Inappropriate use of antibiotics leads not only to emergence of resistant bacteria, but also economic loss and adverse reactions. Knowledge, attitude and practice of academic staff and high school teachers about the use of antibiotics and self-medication are assessed in this survey. Also, the relationship between these facto...

The overall goal of VLSI CAD research is to provide the means to produce custom integrated circuits correctly, quickly, and economically. In the past, correctness applied only to the desired function, but there is increasing need to design to a performance specification, expressed in terms of speed, circuit area, and power. In this research group, the main emphasis is on CAD tools for performan...

Understanding the properties of surfaces of solids and the interactions of atoms and molecules with surfaces has been of extreme importance both from technological and academic points of view. The recent advent of ultrahigh vacuum technology has made microscopic studies of wellcharacterized surface systems possible. The way atoms move to reduce the energy of the surface, the number of layers of...

BACKGROUND The 'spillover effect' of academic-practice partnerships on hospital nursing staff has received limited attention. In 2007, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) created the VA Nursing Academy (VANA) to fund fifteen partnerships between schools of nursing and local VA healthcare facilities. In this paper, we examine the experiences of the VA staff nurses who worked on the units use...

Academic staff development in the pedagogical applications of new technologies is fundamental to the transformation of teaching and learning in tertiary education settings. We present a case study of a staff development activity at Deakin University, a multi-campus university offering on and off-campus programs, which aimed to develop a collegial online experience for academics interested in us...

A. NONLINEAR MAP INTERVAL ESTIMATION We shall consider two problems related to the equations specifying the nonlinear interval estimator. In the first part, we shall discuss a method for solving these equations which involves the optimum nonlinear realizable filter. In the second part, we shall present a technique for determining the optimum nonlinear realizable filter from the equations specif...