This paper evaluates the role of collaborative learning in an Asian educational institution. The paper begins with a description of the current education landscape, particularly on learners of today which exhibit 21 century learning skills. The concept of collaborative learning is next described with an emphasis on Johnson and Johnson five key elements of collaborative learning. A research stud...

Marriages consist of shared experiences and interactions between husbands and wives that may lead to different impressions of the quality of the relationship. Few studies, unfortunately, have tested gender differences in the structure of marital quality, and even fewer studies have evaluated whether genetic and environmental influences on marital quality differ across gender. In this study, we ...

A group of ten short tandem repeat (STR) loci suitable for PCR typing from DNA of domestic cats is evaluated for genetic individualization using blinded samples of eight putative feline blood specimens. The ten loci were also typed in a 70 member cat pedigree to demonstrate Mendelian inheritance and independent assortment. A "match window" or measurement precision estimate was empirically estab...

In this paper, we present a Binary cat swarm optimization for solving the Set covering problem. The Set covering problem is a well-known NP-hard problem with many practical applications, including those involving scheduling, production planning and location problems. Binary cat swarm optimization is a recent swarm metaheuristic technique based on the behaviour of discrete cats. Domestic cats sh...

conclusions in conclusion, at measurement can be beneficial for the safety or recovery of malathion-induced toxic injury in liver tissue and liver mitochondria. results in liver tissue, the activity of lpo and cat was higher in the malathion group in comparison to controls. at reduced malathion-induced lpo, sod, cat, and gpx in rat liver. coadministration of at with malathion improved lpo, sod,...

trichosanthes kirilowii, an important economic plant in china, is sensitive to chilling. to investigate the effect of abscisic acid (aba) treatment on the chilling tolerance of trichosanthes kirilowii maxim, different concentrations of aba were sprayed on trichosanthes kirilowii leaves and the resulting catalase (cat) and superoxide dismutase (sod) activities and the malondialdehyde (mda) conte...

Bilateral simple ectopic kidney was diagnosed in an apparently healthy 3-year-old, female domestic short hair cat, incidentally based on radiology and ultrasonography examination. The cat was presented for routine examination without any complaint. In clinical evaluation, no significant abnormal clinical sign was seen except for the absence of both kidneys in their proper location in abdominal ...

19 cats were nper-sensitized to allergic asthma by receiving a concomitant spray ang injection of ovalbumin (10% fresh egg-white in normal saline) every other days for four weeks.then animals were anesthetized and left femoral artery cannulation performed to record atrerial pressure and take blood samples.left femoral vein was cannulated to infuse nutritional fluids and grugs as needed.trachea ...

The aim of this paper is to introduce the notion of cat$^{bf {1}}-$groupoids which are the groupoid version of cat$^{bf {1}}-$groups and to prove the categorical equivalence between crossed modules over groupoids and cat$^{bf {1}}-$groupoids. In section 4 we introduce the notions of crossed squares over groupoids and of cat$^{bf {2}}-$groupoids, and then we show their categories are equivalent....