INTRODUCTION Education and research are two major functions of universities, which require proper and systematic exploitation of available knowledge and information. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the knowledge management status in an education system by considering the function of faculty members in creation and dissemination of knowledge. This study was conducted to investigate the...

Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is a rare congenital anomaly seen in 0.26% of all congenital heart defects. From 1978 to the present, we have encountered 11 such cases in patients ranging from 3 months to 60 years of age. A variety of procedures have been performed, such as ligation of the anomalous left coronary artery (n = 1), saphenous vein byp...

We study the dynamics of a predator-prey system in a random environment. The dynamics evolves according to a deterministic Lotka-Volterra system for an exponential random time after which it switches to a different deterministic Lotka-Volterra system. This switching procedure is then repeated. The resulting process switches between two deterministic Lotka-Volterra systems at exponential times a...

The performance of deployment properties on folded membrane structures for solar sail was investigated. The theoretical analyses for one-dimensional Z-fold membrane model were performed as inextensible membrane model with large deformation theory as Elastica problem. The deployment ratio was examined through numerical simulation and experiment. To correct the geometrical effects between uniform...