The benefit of exercise training in congestive heart failure (CHF) has become widely appreciated over the past 20 years. It is now clear that exercise exerts a number of beneficial effects in CHF, including an improvement of skeletal muscle perfusion, and metabolism, breathing efficiency, and neurohumoral activation [1]. More recent evidence indicates that exercise training in patients with CHF...

A cooperative intelligent agent is a user's personal consultant that takes care of problems the user got, and solve them either by itself or through cooperation. To construct a suitable organization structure which allows individual agents to easily reason about the others' activities, and thus nd the peers, is a key issue for e cient cooperation. In this paper, we suggest an activity-oriented ...

Purpose The purpose of our study was to determine the effectiveness of 4 weeks fixed and mixed intermittent hypoxic training (IHT) and its difference from exercise training at sea-level on exercise load, respiratory metabolic and acid-base response of capillary blood during 80% maximal heart rate (HRmax) bicycle exercise in male elite Taekwondo players. Methods Male elite Taekwondo players (n...

BACKGROUND Minimal information is available on the number and type of procedures being performed for structural and valvular heart disease, the physicians who perform these procedures, and on the training requirements for this emerging field. METHODS Surveys were performed using an online survey of members of the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), including its Council o...

This article is an attempt to review the standardization of human resources in education. Today, a qualitative movement toward efficient trainings in educational systems is necessary, since one of the important factors in the development and progress of any society is necessarily resources, manpower and their education. Considering education as a basic system in growing human resources, the pre...

During the past several decades, scholarly consideration has focused on the concept of teacher knowledge and a variety of reform efforts to rethink both the structure and practices of teacher education to enhance teacher preparation process. As a consequence, the tripartite knowledge base of EFL teacher training is built on the partnership between universities and schools to support student tea...