Concerns about the quality and value of doctoral studies continue to be expressed by various constituencies. Cohort mentoring and professional relevance have been identified as significant opportunities for modernising doctoral education. This case study responds to the need for doctoral reform by exploring the process and outcomes of mentoring on a self-formed educational leadership cohort, a ...

Sarcasm is a pervasive phenomenon in social media, permitting the concise communication of meaning, affect and attitude. Concision requires wit to produce and wit to understand, which demands from each party knowledge of norms, context and a speaker’s mindset. Insight into a speaker’s psychological profile at the time of production is a valuable source of context for sarcasm detection. Using a ...

Nephron sparing surgery (NSS) is the gold standard treatment option for patients with a solitary kidney in order to preserve renal function. Open partial nephrectomy (OPN) has been long considered the standard care for NSS. Robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN) is being gradually used more commonly even for solitary kidney and complex tumors. There was no difference between RPN and OPN regarding th...

Storage media such as digital optical disks, PROMS, or paper tape consist of a number of "write-once" bit positions (wits); each wit initially contains a "0" that may later be irreversibly overwritten with a "1." It is demonstrated that such "write-once memories" (woms) can be "rewritten" to a surprising degree. For example, only 3 wits suffice to represent any 2-bit value in a way that can lat...

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We describe here a Web inventory named WIT3 that offers access to a collection of transcribed and translated talks. The core of WIT3 is the TED Talks corpus, that basically redistributes the original content published by the TED Conference website (http://www.ted.com). Since 2007, the TED Conference, based in California, has been posting all video recordings of its talks together with subtitles...

Abstract Background Muscle is severely affected by ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI). Quiescent satellite cells differentiating into myogenic progenitor (MPC) possess a remarkable regenerative potential. We herein established model of local application MPC in murine hindlimb to study cell engraftment and differentiation required for muscle regeneration. Methods A clamping (C57b/6 J) ischemia wa...