Despite significant clinical and research efforts aimed at recognizing and managing "difficult" patients, such patients remain a frustrating experience for many clinicians. This is especially true for primary care residents, who are required to see a significant volume of patients with diverse and complex problems, but who may not have adequate training and life experience to enable them to dea...

Econometrics has become an integral part of training in modern economics and business. Together with microeconomics and macroeconomics, econometrics has been taught as one of the three core courses in most undergraduate and graduate economic programs in North America. In China, the importance of econometrics has been increasingly recognized and econometric tools and methods have been widely emp...

this paper is concerned with the problem of designing discrete-time control systems with closed-loop eigenvalues in a prescribed region of stability. first, we obtain a state feedback matrix which assigns all the eigenvalues to zero, and then by elementary similarity operations we find a state feedback which assigns the eigenvalues inside a circle with center   and radius. this new algorithm ca...

This paper presents results from two experiments which used computer-based grammar and teacher-driven grammar (chalk and talk) instructional methods. Each method involves teaching verb tenses using two deductive approaches (a) the initial rule-oriented approach (involves initial presentation of explicit rules followed by illustrative examples) and (b) the structure-guessing approach (involves e...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microteaching, a teacher training technique currently practiced worldwide, provides teachers an opportunity to perk up their teaching skills by improving the various simple tasks called teaching skills. with the proven success among the novice and seniors, microteaching helps to promote real-time teaching experiences. the core skills of microteachin...

A high performance numerical technique in the study of aorto-coronaric bypass anastomoses configurations using steady Stokes equations is presented. The problem is first expressed as an optimal control problem. Then, by using an embedding method, the class of admissible shapes is replaced by a class of positive Borel measures. The optimization problem in measure space is then approximated by ...

This paper is concerned with the problem of designing discrete-time control systems with closed-loop eigenvalues in a prescribed region of stability. First, we obtain a state feedback matrix which assigns all the eigenvalues to zero, and then by elementary similarity operations we find a state feedback which assigns the eigenvalues inside a circle with center   and radius. This new algorithm ca...

The paper presents a technique of constructing of a set of labeled objects for using in a heuristic method of possibilistic clustering with partial supervision. The technique is based on the data preprocessing using fuzzy objective function-based clustering procedures. An illustrative example of the technique using and partial supervised method’s application to the Sneath and Sokal’s two-dimens...

The hyperbolic partial differential equation with an integral condition arises in many physical phenomena. In this research a numerical technique is developed for the one-dimensional hyperbolic equation that combine classical and integral boundary conditions. The proposedmethod is based on shifted Legendre tau technique. Illustrative examples are included to demonstrate the validity and applica...