Placing a certain number of sinks at appropriate locations in WSNs reduces the number of hops between a sensor and its sink resulting in less exchanged messages between nodes and consequently less energy consumption. Since finding the optimal number of the sinks to be added and their locations is an NP Hard problem, we propose in this paper, a topological level solution that uses a meta-heurist...

conclusions the significant difference between groups 1 and 3 permits to establish a correlation between degree of nicotine addiction and hearing loss. however, further studies are needed to identify the mechanisms leading to hearing loss. patients and methods the study recruited smokers (100) and non-smokers as a reference group (100) aged 21 to 50 years living in noisy or quiet areas of beiru...

This study investigated the effectiveness of various types of worked-out examples used in pre-training to optimize the cognitive load and enhance learners’ comprehension of the content in an animation-based learning environment. An animation-based learning environment was developed specifically for this study. The participants were divided into four groups; each group was provided with a differ...

2153. Catheter Lock with Minocycline, EDTA and Ethanol for Salvaging of Central Venous Catheters in the Setting of Catheter-related Bloodstream Infections Ray Y. Hachem, MD1; Souha Kanj, MD, FIDSA; Nelson Hamerschlak, MD; Hala Saad, MD; Fernanda Ferraz Assir, MD; Nobuyoshi Mori, MD; Ying Jiang, MS; Fady Ghaly, MD; Anne-Marie Chaftari, MD and Issam Raad, MD; Infectious Diseases, Infection Contro...

The paper is analyzing how people in late modern society characterized by detraditionalization, use moving images as a cultural resource for the construction of meaningful subjective world views. As a theoretical concept with several dimensions, “sacralization of the self” (Woodhead & Heelas 2000: 344), is related to media theory. With a critical focus on ‘the self’, as a core aspect in contemp...

background : malnutrition represents an important issue in older adults; unfortunately, there is lack of data concerning this topic in lebanon. this paper aims to provide a description of nutritional status and its correlates in older adults living in long stay institutions situated in beirut. methods : this cross-sectional study was conducted in three long stay institutions in beirut in 2012. ...

2153. Catheter Lock with Minocycline, EDTA and Ethanol for Salvaging of Central Venous Catheters in the Setting of Catheter-related Bloodstream Infections Ray Y. Hachem, MD1; Souha Kanj, MD, FIDSA; Nelson Hamerschlak, MD; Hala Saad, MD; Fernanda Ferraz Assir, MD; Nobuyoshi Mori, MD; Ying Jiang, MS; Fady Ghaly, MD; Anne-Marie Chaftari, MD and Issam Raad, MD; Infectious Diseases, Infection Contro...

“malakoot” story (literally celestial kingdom), the only novel written by bahram sadeghi, is one of the memorial work that has been witten under the influence of “boof-e-koor” story (literally blind owl) written by sadegh hedayat by a distinctive style and during a specific period of time. aside from unique content of this story, form and structure of this work are also remarkable and marvelous...