Background Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is a frequent cardiovascular disorder. It is among the main causes of morbidity and mortality among hospitalized patients and, at the same time, can be easily avoided. Studies clarified that there are a variety of factors which can be significantly associated with the development of DVT in hospitalized patients. Objective to identify frequency and facto...

The Mekong River is home to an estimated 1,200 species of fish and supports one of the most important freshwater fisheries in the world, vital for food security and employment among the 60 million people in the Mekong Basin. Many of the fish migrate seasonally between flood-season feeding, spawning and rearing habitats, and dryseason refuge habitats. Only limited, fragmented, information on the...

this study on abortion was carried out at farah maternity hospital on the basis of : 1) the total admission recorded between 1960-1967 and 2) an interview questionnaire on 1009 women who had been referred for complications of termination of pregnancy, induced or spontaneous , between october 1968 and march 1969.there was an increase of 33.2% in admission for deliveries and 28.6% for abortions. ...

In this project, we perform a text independent speaker identification experiment with a newly released data set, VoxCeleb (2017)[1], which consists of celebrity interview audio clips downloaded from Youtube. It’s a challenging data set in the sense that there are often multiple vocal sources in the same clip. A MFCC feature vector based Deep Neural Network (DNN) is used as our baseline. It is c...

This study was inspired by VanPatten and Uludag’s (2011) study on the transferability of training via processing instruction to output tasks and Mori’s (2002) work on the development of talk-in-interaction during a group task. An interview was devised as the pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest to compare four intervention types for teaching the simple past passive: traditional intervention ...

This study examined the experiences of 13 graduate students enrolled in a closed, lock-step master’s degree of the education cohort program. Interview and observational data, collected over 10 months and across four courses, were qualitatively analyzed to explore students’ understanding of the meaning of cohort membership and how that membership both shaped their educational experience and the ...

In the present study, a group of high-achieving students is characterized, and the relationship between personality traits, study practices and learning environments is explored. Thirty three engineering students with outstanding academic achievement were assessed using a mixed method approach, consisting of a semi-structured interview and two questionnaires: the NEO-PI-R (Portuguese version) a...

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John W. Kozarich, PhD, is Chairman and President of ActivX Biosciences, Inc. He received his BS degree in chemistry from Boston College and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Kozarich completed a National Institutes of Health (NIH) postdoctoral fellowship in biochemistry at Harvard University. After an early career in academia, with tenured full professorships at Yale U...