Over the past few years , there has b een an increasing emphasis on designing low-energy-use buildings. Rising energy prices and clim atic impacts of energy generation are among the important reasons. Super-tall buildings can be sustainable vertical cities of tom orrow, because of their high aspect ratios, efficien cy with res pect to lan d use, and reduced transportation and inf rastructure se...

This study lies in the context of virtual engineering and human information systems. We propose to model and implement the behaviour of believable virtual agents, using ideas from psychology (cognitive maps, affordances) and neurophysiology (active perception, movement prediction). Virtual worlds are peopled with autonomous entities improvising in free interaction. Autonomization of a model con...

Angiographic assessment of the right coronary artery (A, Online Video 1) with electrocardiographic evidence of inferior ST-segment elevation. A lon was observed by right coronary angiography with Thrombolysis In Myoca graphic appearance was seen in the mid-left anterior descending artery ( (OCT) confirmed extensive multivessel intramural hematoma without evid of a side branch [white arrow]; Onl...

This study's goal was to understand the extent, framework, and benefits of externships with prospective residency programs undertaken by predoctoral dental students or dentists interested in applying for a residency program. In 2012, a questionnaire was sent to all pediatric dentistry residents and program directors in the United States (63 percent and 74 percent return rate, respectively). Ext...

Aim. This study tries to identify the level of anxiety as a state and as a feature in patients that request orthodontic treatment. Methods. The experimental design contains: control group, experimental group. The first lot of subjects, patient lot, is composed by 41 children and adolescents which requested orthodontic treatment. The ages were from 7-18 year old, age average 12,31 standard devia...

SUMMARY MR-Tandem adapts the popular X!Tandem peptide search engine to work with Hadoop MapReduce for reliable parallel execution of large searches. MR-Tandem runs on any Hadoop cluster but offers special support for Amazon Web Services for creating inexpensive on-demand Hadoop clusters, enabling search volumes that might not otherwise be feasible with the compute resources a researcher has at ...

UNLABELLED The frontal sinus trauma is not rare and it is 8% of the facial fractures. It can affect the anterior and/or posterior plates, with or without hitting the nasofrontal duct. It has a large potential of complications and its management still being a controversy. OBJECTIVE To present the casuistic of fractures frontal sinus, the epidemiology and clinical and surgical management of fro...

background: at the present time, teaching pharmacology for medical students mainly focuses on the basic principles of pharmacology. this study was conducted to assess the current situation of pharmacology teaching and the necessity of developing clinical pharmacology from the viewpoint of medical interns and externs in tabriz university of medical sciences. methods: this descriptive cross-secti...

Background: In the present study, we studied the clinical students’ viewpoints toward traditional and case study training methods. Methods: This analytical descriptive study was conducted in cardiac ward of ValiAsr Hospital in Birjand from 1389 to 1390. 5 training sessions in the form of case presentation were held during a one-month course in cardiac ward. The trainer prepared a PowerPoint fi...

Tliis paper deals wilh ihe dislribution of word length in short native mylliological and hisuirieal Eskimo narrative texls. To my knowledge. no Eskimo-Aletil data have been ihe object of quantitative linguistie Investigation so t'ar. Dtte Io tlie strong linguistie and slylixlic honiogcncily of Ihe examined texts u was assumed tlial tltese texts tun be subsumed under a single law of Word lengih ...