Mid-semester student feedback is a teaching assessment technique designed to elicit formative feedback from students during the semester, when it can be acted on to improve the course and students’ learning. Gathering student feedback at mid-semester is optimal for an instructor to get the pulse of the course––to find out what students are thinking about the instructor, the course material, and...

Moraxella IgD binding protein (MID) is a novel bacterial outer membrane protein with IgD-binding properties. MID was purified from the respiratory pathogen Moraxella catarrhalis and is here shown to have B cell stimulatory properties. Purified MID in the range of 0.01-0.1 microg/ml was optimal to induce a proliferative response in human PBL. MID coupled to Sepharose and formalin-fixed M. catarr...

Sustainability of rice production under limited water conditions is threatened by increasing irrigation water scarcity. Therefore, physiological and morphological responses of rice to varying water stress management strategies should be determined. The physiological and morphological responses of a semi dwarf rice (Hashemi cultivar) to water stress intensities (mild and severe, i.e., short-dura...

Objective(s): Long-term, irregular endurance exercise may result in disturbance to the angiogenesis of heart muscles and blood supply. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the effects of mid- and long-term endurance exercise on the process of angiogenesis.Materials and Methods: Eighteen male Wister rats of 220±10 g, were randomly assigned to three groups of 6 rats including: Control, Mid...

plan irregularity causes local damages being concentrated in the irregular buildings. progressive collapse is also the collapse of a large portion or whole building due to the local damages in the structure. the effect of irregularity on the progressive collapse potential of the buildings is investigated in this study. this is carried out by progressive collapse evaluation of the asymmetric mid...

abstract astigmatic soil mite fauna of alfalfa fields of six regions in northwest of east azebaijan (soofian, payam, zenooz, marand, shabestar and jolfa) was studied at three different times of the year 2006 (mid-may, mid-july and mid-september) based on nested design. in this study 12 species, 5 genera and 2 families were identified. in general, shabestar and zenooz showed highest and lowest m...

zafar as a new rapeseed cultivar is the cross which was made between 19h and sarigol line/cultivar in 2003. the pedigree selection was applied to mange the segregating generations. the results of evaluation made during 2008-09 and 2009-10 showed that zafar with an average seed yield of 3810 kg ha-1 was among superior genotypes identified. further evaluation on these genotypes as a mid-maturity/...

background: dialysis patients frequently have coronary artery disease but are regarded as high risk patients for coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg). methods: between february 2002 and september 2006, seventeen dialysis-dependent patients underwent isolated cabg at our center. cabg was performed under cardiopulmonary bypass (cpb) for all the patients. all cases had been maintained on hemodia...