. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, as the main linguistic institution in the Slovak Republic, publishes a lot of information either in the form of dictionaries, scientific publications or periodicals, targeted both to scientific community and general audience. With increasing amount of information produced, information retrieval and effective searching can be greatly assisted by organizing and in...

EIREN K. JACOBSON, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0208, U.S.A.; KARIN A. FORNEY, Marine Mammal and Turtle Divison, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 110 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, California 95060, U.S.A.; JAMES T. HARVEY, ...

AUTHOR Witkin, Herman A. TITLE The Role of Cognitive Style in Academic Performance and in Teacher-Student Relations. INSTITUTION Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J. SPONS AGENCY Graduate Record Examinations Board, Princeton, N.J.; National Institutes of Health (DREW), Bethesda, Md. Resources Analysis Branch. PUB DATE Feb 73 NOTE 59p.; Paper presented at a Symposium Sponsored by the Gra...

Five selected China IT business incubators are studied with grounded theory, after coding the interview data, we establish the model of influence factors that affect IT business incubator’s incubation performance with dimensions of the external factor, the internal factor and the associated factor. The external factors that affect the incubation performance are institution and industry environm...

Background Biopsies are often essential for definitive diagnosis of oro-facial lesions and are a part of oral diagnostic procedures carried out in histopathology laboratories. At present, there is paucity of literature on the audit of oral histopathology services in Nigeria. The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of biopsied oral lesions in a Nigerian tertiary institution...

BACKGROUND The readiness of academics to engage in the service-learning (SL) institutionalisation process is not accentuated in research on SL institutionalisation in South Africa. The argument has been advanced that SL scholarship and willingness of key stakeholders are crucial for SL institutionalisation at the academic programme level. AIM The research focus of the study being reported her...

a San Diego State University, Dept. of Computer Science, 5500 Campanile Dr., San Diego, CA 92182-7720, USA b Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0205, USA c NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Fisheries Science Centers, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA d Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Nicholas Sc...

INTRODUCTION Benign mesenteric lipodystrophy is rare and often presents in a non-specific fashion. Imaging findings may mimic a range of malignant conditions, particularly malignant ovarian disease in women. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of a 61-year-old Caucasian woman who was referred to the gynaecology service at our institution and was thought to have ovarian malignancy, and requi...

OBJECTIVE Undertaking of a complete audit of the service of mammography, as recommended by BI-RADS(®), in a private reference institution for breast cancer diagnosis in the city of São Paulo, SP, Brazil, and comparison of results with those recommended by the literature. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrospective, analytical and cross-sectional study including 8,000 patients submitted to mammography...

Background Trauma is a leading cause of death and disability in England and Wales, with 16,000 injury deaths per year. High estimates of preventable death rates have renewed the impetus for national regionalisation of major trauma to specialist centres. We hypothesized that the institution of a specialist multidisciplinary trauma service and performance improvement programme had resulted in sig...