Blended learning in which online education is combined with face-to-face education is especially useful for (future) health care professionals who need to keep up-to-date. Blended learning can make learning more efficient, for instance by removing barriers of time and distance. In the past distance-based learning activities have often been associated with traditional delivery-based methods, ind...

In the present study, the 26-residue amphipathic α-helical peptide A12L/A20L (Ac-KWKSFLKTFKSLKKTVLHTLLKAISS-amide) with strong anticancer activity and specificity was used as the framework to study the effects of helicity of α-helical anticancer peptides on biological activities. Helicity was systematically modulated by introducing d-amino acids to replace the original l-amino acids on the non-...

We propose a new technique that speeds up signi cantly the time needed by a trained network MLP in our case to detect a face in a large image We reformulate neural activities in the hidden layer of the MLP in terms of lter convolution enabling the use of Fourier transform for an e cient computation of the neural activities A formal proof and a complexity analysis are presented Finally some exam...

In an effort to boost meeting productivity and success, managers may employ trained group facilitators. They may also implement group Introduction Face-to-face meetings serve as a venue to bring together organizational eaders for decision making, issue tracking, policy setting, and a variety of activities aimed at adding reliability and flexibility in response to the ever-changing business envi...

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore nursing students’ experiences, perceptions and behavior during a course on kidney and urinary system anatomy and physiology designed according to the flipped-classroom approach. In flipped-classroom teaching, students prepare for class by engaging with teacher-produced learning material, typically videos. This frees up time in class, which can ins...

background a large amount of money is allocated to hypertension in terms of remedial and care costs, but fighting against this disease begins with education. objectives this study has been conducted with the aim of comparing the effect of two methods: face-to-face education and distance education (via short message service [sms]) on amount of following remedial diet in patients suffering from h...

This case study sets out to investigate the impact of the introduction of a computer-assisted language learning tool into an English-as-a-foreign-language course for Chinese students on a one-year university diploma programme at Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France. VoiceForum, an asynchronous platform for oral interaction, is currently being used in class with these students as a...