The didactic thesis of this paper is that web-supported learning tools (Schwartz et al., 2003) have to facilitate BLOCKINintercultural BLOCKINunderstanding. This paper's approach suggests that deeper dialogue-induced cognition in Dewey's sense (Berding, 1999) can enhance interparadigmatic understanding, civilisational evolution and mul-ticultural education towards democratisation (Purnendu & Tr...

The fifth international workshop on Software Quality and Maintainability (SQM 2011) offered a forum to researchers to present their original work and to practitioners to relate their experiences on issues pertaining to software quality and maintainability. Moreover, the theme of the workshop invited discussion on how to bridge the gap between end user expectations, business requirements, vendor...

this study represents scientific production of iran in medical sciences field at recent years, and the correlation between scientific productions with the number of indexed journals.data extracted from scopus database between years 2000 and 2011, and iran's performance measured in terms of different scientometrics indexes including self-citations, percent of cited articles, number of articles w...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 11182 “Exploiting graph structure to cope with hard problems” which has been held in Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics from May 1st, 2011 to May 6th, 2011. During the seminar experts with a common focus on graph algorithms presented various new results in how to attack NP-hard graph problems by using the stru...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate daily cholesterol intake across demographic factors and its food sources in elderly Chinese. DESIGN A longitudinal study was conducted using demographic and dietary data for elders aged 60 and above from eight waves (1991-2011) of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. SETTING The data were derived from urban and rural communities of nine provinces (au...

While HD per se is a life saving procedure, it cannot substitute for a healthy kidney, it taxes the patient and HD related fatigue symptoms significantly affect patients' quality and way of life as suggested by Muscle status is gravely affected with HD patients demonstrating severe atrophy, fat infiltration, and other anomalies (Sakkas et al., 2008b). Overall, HD patients exhibit low levels of ...

Abstract Human longevity is rising rapidly all over the world, but are longer lives more satisfied lives? This study suggests that answer might be no. Despite a substantial increase in months of satisfying life, people’s overall life satisfaction declined between 1985 and 2011 West Germany due to losses old age. When compared 1985, 2011, elderly Germans were, on average, much less throughout th...