Electrochemotherapy combines administration of nonpermeant or poorly permeant chemotherapeutic drugs with application of electric pulses to the tumors in order to facilitate the drug delivery into the cells. Thus, enhanced drug delivery can substantially potentiate chemotherapeutic drug effectiveness, locally at the site of the cell electroporation by electric pulses, without affecting drug eff...

The Kohonen algorithm (SOM) was originally defined as a stochastic algorithm which works in an on-line way and which was designed to model some plastic features of the human brain. In fact it is nowadays extensively used for data mining, data visualization, and exploratory data analysis. Some users are tempted to use the batch version of the Kohonen algorithm (KBATCH) since it is a deterministi...

The demographic transition in industrialized countries leads to a growth of elderly population. This population is more prone to chronic diseases and puts an increasing pressure on the healthcare system. One way to reduce the cost associated to the support of this population is to improve its autonomy to keep it independent as long as possible. Many assistive technologies and environmental inte...

background: learning management system (lms) is a web-based system designed to support teaching and learning at an institution. the capabilities of any lms are required to be evaluated to detect the room for improvement. this study aimed at discovering the students’ perceptions of the functions of the lms at iran university of medical sciences (iums).   methods: this qualitative study included ...

Shear thickening fluids (STF) are a class of whose viscosity significantly rises under external loads. The research on these has been advancing in recent years regarding prospective practical applications, including developing impact-absorbing composites. Following the green agendas governments and legislators advocate, this study investigates combination STF other sustainable materials. Cork i...