The establishment of the diagnosis of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) always calls for histopathological confirmation. Further to the recognition of the CMM aspects, immunohistochemistry is helpful, in particular, in determining the size of the replicative compartment and the activity in each of the cell cycle phases (G(1), S, G(2), M). The involvement of cancer stem cells and transient ampl...

PURPOSE Recruitment of tutors to work in problem-based learning (PBL) programs is challenging, especially in that most of them are graduated from discipline-based programs. Therefore, this study aims at examining whether lecturing skills of faculty could predict their PBL tutoring skills. METHODS This study included evaluation of faculty (n=69) who participated in both tutoring and lecturing ...

Studies that use the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and its age-appropriate versions as indices of affective decision-making during childhood and adolescence have demonstrated significant individual differences in scores. Our study investigated the association between general intellectual functioning and socioeconomic status (SES) and its effect on the development of affective decision-making in pres...

A coordinate measuring machine (CMM) is a computer controlled device that uses a pro-grammable probe to obtain measurements on a part surface. Recently CMMs have become very popular for dimensional measurement in industry due to their exibility, accuracy, and ease of automation. Despite the advantages ooered by CMM's, problems have emerged with their use because tolerance standards require know...

While the verification of the performance of coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) is self-evidently important, the point coordinates they provide are usually the input to form and tolerance assessment software that calculate associated geometric features, such as a best fit cylinder to the data. For the measurement result to be reliable, it is also necessary to ensure that the calculations perf...

Weapon systems effectiveness depends on many complex, interrelated factors, some of which are tangible, many of which are subjective and not measurable. These factors are often called Measures of Effectiveness (MoEs). However, weapons exist to perform mission-related tasks. As such, they can be characterized by Measures of Performance (MoPs), metrics that are objective and measurable. At the pl...

in a competitive market, timely production and speed of response to orders, also flexibility of manufacturing companies to production of various products required by customers is necessary. production companies to survive in the market, must be able to deliver their products with the use of all factors of production. for this purpose, one of the most challenging factors of production, keeping r...

Traditional manufacturing uses coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) or component-specific gauging for in-process and post-process inspection. In assessing the fitness for purpose of these measuring systems, it is necessary to evaluate the uncertainty associated with CMM measurement. However, this is not straightforward since the measurement results are subject to a large range of factors includ...

In this paper a new concept of a liquid-surface-based three-axis inclination sensor for evaluation of angular error motion of a precision linear slide, which is often used in the field of precision engineering such as ultra-precision machine tools, coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) and so on, is proposed. In the liquid-surface-based three-axis inclination sensor, a reference float mounting a...