An interactive image analysis and manipulation environment is introduced in the paper. The environment contains image manipulation functions, voxel operations, neighbourhood and morphological filters. The most popular filters are implemented and an easy interactive way for creating new filters is provided. The environment can work with different types of 2D and 3D images. It can be used as a sy...

 Creating Sustainable Organizations : preparing social entrepreneurs to serve as directors of Partners Centers in their own countries. Partners' ensures that the independent Centers achieve sustainability within three years by developing diverse streams of Center revenue based on a detailed assessment of their countries' needs for change and conflict management services. The Partners Network o...

In this paper we discuss several features of XP we have used in developing curricula and courses at Duke University and the University of Northern Iowa. We also discuss those practices of XP that we teach as part of the design and implementation process we want students to practice as they develop programming expertise and experience. In theory the academic study of programming and software dev...

The application of information technology can have positive and negative impacts on social capital. In this paper we discuss technologies which have the potential to foster social capital by matching human actors. The matching algorithms are based on the personal data describing the actors' behavior, background, qualification, or interests. Consequently, actors who are little known or even unkn...

Health care workforce development is a key pillar of global health systems strengthening that requires investment in health care worker training institutions. This can be achieved by developing partnerships between training institutions in resource-limited and resource-rich areas and leveraging the unique expertise and opportunities both have to offer. To realize their full potential, however, ...

Abstract This paper examines whether women’s attitudes toward environmental innovation are impacted by their individual differences in skills, expertise, experience, and technical knowledge, as well visibility legitimacy on boards. Using the categorization of directors developed Hillman et al (J Manag Stud 37(2):235–256, 2000) a dataset including largest non-financial Spanish-listed entities re...

awareness of the perception of farmers toward cooperation is an important step for developing the role of cooperatives in rural economy. the purpose of this descriptive-correlational study was to investigate perception of farmers toward cooperation. the statistical population for the study consisted of farmer heads of families in the rural society of kermanshah township (n=24391). three hundred...

Until the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was adopted in 1997, states were not expected to actively promote their public health programs for children or to encourage enrollment. But the availability of new administrative funds under SCHIP for outreach and marketing spurred states to create marketing campaigns to raise awareness about and increase involvement in SCHIP and Medic...

Manufacturing operations have empiric nature. Under any kind of problem during the execution of a given process, practical knowledge, experience and intuition have been used in solving these problems. However, many firms face problems since they do not have an adequate knowledge base to maintain and represent skills and expertise. Therefore, the importance of developing intelligent systems that...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between student performance and tutor expertise and experience in the Restorative Treatment course in a problem-based learning (PBL) dental curriculum. This retrospective study evaluated a cohort of 206 third-year dental students at Harvard School of Dental Medicine who were enrolled in the Restorative Treatment course between 2000 and 2...