Six degrees of separation is a well-known idea that any two people on this planet can be connected via an average number of six steps. Having succeeded in the real world, the theory even directly or indirectly motivated the invention of online societies. However, no much effort has been paid on checking if the theory really holds for online societies whose connection pattern may not be identica...

introduction: student admission indicators typically depend on either student fields or community current career needs. in addition, specific fields have particular needs. the main aim was to determine student admission indicators in medical records field in different degrees in isfahan medical sciences university in iran in 2007. methods: this study was analytical in which data were collected ...

BACKGROUND The Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) grant program provides fellows and junior faculty members with grant support to stimulate their careers. The authors conducted a bibliometric analysis of recipients of FAER grants since 1987. METHODS Recipients were identified in the FAER alumni database. Each recipient's affiliation was identified using an Internet search...

The article centers on conflicts between the types of medicine practiced in nineteenth-century Goiás, when the discourse of scientific medicine imposed its presence and defined the spaces where physicians holding medical degrees could practice while precluding those without degrees, viewed as charlatans by the former. The analysis underscores the clashes triggered as academic medicine endeavore...

We present the lifting scheme, a new idea for constructing compactly supported wavelets with compactly supported duals. The lifting scheme uses a simple relationship between all multiresolution analyses with the same scaling function. It isolates the degrees of freedom remaining after fixing the biorthogonality relations. Then one has full control over these degrees of freedom to custom design ...

Misconceptions about the nature of the computing discipline(s) pose a serious problem to faculties that offer computing degrees, as students enrolling on their programmes come to realise that their expectations are not met by reality. This frequently results in the students’ early disengagement from the subject of their degrees which in turn can lead to excessive ‘wastage’, i.e. reduced retenti...

We have examined fractal patterns formed by the injection of air into oil in a thin (0.127 mm) layer contained between two cylindrical glass plates of 288 mm diameter (a Hele-Shaw cell), for pressure differences in the range 0.25 < or = DeltaP < or = 1.75 atm. We find that an asymptotic structure is reached at large values of the ratio r/b, where r is the pattern radius and b the gap between th...

Almost three decades have passed since the Rio declaration, and after numerous initiatives developed to include sustainability in higher education, with support of Education for Sustainable Development, it is worth wondering at what point process inserting university degrees. To clarify this question, engineering students were inquired, University Basque Country (UPV/EHU), about their perceptio...

2. Introduction 3 2.1. Notations and conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2. Simple graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.3. Drawing graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.4. A first fact: The Ramsey number R (3, 3) = 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.5. Degrees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Popular folklore asserts that any two people in the world are linked through a chain of no more than six mutual acquaintances, as encapsulated in the phrase “six degrees of separation”. Some evidence in support of this claim arose from the experiments of an American sociologist, Stanley Milgram, in the 1960s. He gave letters to people in Nebraska and Kansas, addressed to a recipient in Boston a...