As a result of the computerization of school education, teachers are faced with the design of new instruction problems which are different from usual instruction in the various points. The purpose of this study is to develop a system which can support teachers in the instructional design process flexibly and dynamically for their various requests. Main characteristics of this system are: 1) mak...

The following terminology will be used. The clause containing the ellipsis (dann besbI£he ieh immer den Peter "then I always -vts# Peter" in ( 1b)) is called ellipsis clause. The constituent --other than dann ("then"), immer ("always") and possibly other particles-that remains expressed in the ellipsis clause is called the remnant (den Peter "the Peter") . The clause from which the elided infor...

It has been demonstrated in vitro and in vivo that hyperthermia can enhance the cytotoxicity of some chemotherapeutic agents. The in vivo studies have demonstrated that the thermal advantage is maximized at mild temperatures such as at 40.5--43 degrees C. Thermo-chemotherapy is widely applied in limb perfusion and intraperitoneal chemotherapy. Hypoxia in solid tumours leads to resistance to mos...

Amaia Rodríguez, Silvia Ezquerro, Leire Méndez-Giménez, Sara Becerril, and Gema Frühbeck Metabolic Research Laboratory, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; and Obesity and Adipobiology Group, Insti...

AIMS Growth hormone deficiency therapy is demanding for patients and caregivers. Teams engaged in the clinical management of growth hormone deficiency therapy need to know how families live with this condition, to provide an adequate support and prevent the risk of withdrawal from therapy. METHODS Using Narrative Medicine, testimonies from patients, their parents and providers of care were co...

BERNARDO M. ÁBREGO, SILVIA FERNÁNDEZ-MERCHANT, AND BERNARDO LLANO Abstract. Given integers k ≥ 1 and n ≥ 0, there is a unique way of writing n as n = ¡nk k ¢ + ¡ nk−1 k−1 ¢ + ... + ¡ n1 1 ¢ so that 0 ≤ n1 < · · · < nk−1 < nk. Using this representation, the KruskalMacaulay function of n is defined as mk (n) = ¡ nk−1 k−1 ¢ + ¡ nk−1−1 k−2 ¢ + ... + ¡ n1−1 0 ¢ . We show that if a ≥ 0 and a < mk+1 (...

FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents) specifications are being proposed as the open standards for heterogeneous agency interaction. We examine the notions of trust and security inherent in the core or normative FIPA specifications and in the existing preliminary security specifications. We highlight its strengths and weaknesses and discuss the steps needed to improve security in the...

ELENA SILVIA BERNAD1#, CIPRIAN DUTA2#, SANDOR IANOS BERNAD3*, STELIAN PANTEA2*, IZABELLA PETRE1 1 Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, 2 Eftimie Murgu Sq., 300041, Timisoara, Romania 2 Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Surgery Department, 2 Eftimie Murgu Sq., 300041, Timisoara, Romania 3...

Silvia Picozzi, Kunihiko Yamauchi, Ivan A. Sergienko, Cengiz Sen, Biplab Sanyal, Elbio Dagotto CNR-INFM, CASTI Regional Lab. c/o Dip. Fisica, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, 67100 Coppito (L’Aquila),Italy 2 Materials Science & Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA and Dept. of Physics, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA 3 Theoretical...

AIM To study the response of the bacterial community to bioremediation of a soil with an aged contamination of crude oil. METHODS AND RESULTS The bacterial community in laboratory soil columns during a 72-day biostimulation treatment was followed by analysing the number of total cultivable hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria, soil respiratory activity and the 16S-23S rDNA internal transcribed spac...