High voltage electrical burns are uncommon. However in the midst of our economic recession we are noticing an increasing number of these injuries. Copper wire is a valuable commodity with physical properties as an excellent conductor of electricity making it both ubiquitous in society and prized on the black market. We present two consecutive cases referred to the National Burns Unit who sustai...

Noticing that different information sources often provide complementary coverage of word sense and meaning, we propose a simple and yet effective strategy for measuring lexical semantics. Our model consists of a committee of vector space models built on a text corpus, Web search results and thesauruses, and measures the semantic word relatedness using the averaged cosine similarity scores. Desp...

this research study explored the impact of learning styles and input modalities on the second language (l2) learners' input processing (ip). this study also sought to appraise the usefulness of processing instruction (pi) and its components in relation to the learners' learning styles and input modalities. to this end, 73 male and female iranian efl learners from islamic azad universi...

A 69-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with the chief complaints of fever and fatigue. We initially treated the patient for a tick-borne disease after noticing a pustule on her leg; however, abdominal computed tomography (CT) showed multiple low-density areas in the liver and Chromobacterium violaceum was isolated from a blood culture. We diagnosed her with multiple liver abscesses se...

Our culture has seldom been inclined to confront the profound changes that accompany technological innovation. Like a carrot prompting a cart horse, technology entices us forward in a way that keeps us from noticing much about the road ahead, each offering results in such a slight movement that by the time we realize we are far from home, no serious re-examination of our fate seems possible. — ...

Increasing interest is now focused on how adults learn from experience, but there is no adequate framework to assist learners and those who facilitate learning promote learning in the midst of experience. This paper provides a way of conceptualising experiencebased learning which considers the personal foundation of experience of learners, their intent and their interaction with a learning mili...