‘VR’ instead of a mark indicates that a student has been exempted from an examination or practical exercise. The board of examiners may decide to exempt students from an examination or practical exercise on the grounds of a previous examination, degree audit or practical exercise completed within the higher education system that corresponds with the subject for which exemption is sought, as reg...

INTRODUCTION The indiscriminate use of different diagnostic criteria for the definition of dyslipidemia may result in inaccurate interpretations, which could compromise diagnosis and therefore the therapeutic and prophylactic actions to be taken. OBJECTIVE To analyze possible differences in prevalence rates of dyslipidemia in adolescents based on three diagnostic definitions. METHODS A cros...

Abstract • We assess the recovery of microbial networks underneath crust to repeated rainfall. The network fragmentation after second heavy rain was milder than at first one. Cohesive were related high enzyme activity involved in C, N, and P cycles. Loose Ca, K, Mg, NH 4 organic N. dry-crusted soils collapsed rain. Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are an important multi-trophic component arid ecos...

This study examines the influence of the social networks of the board of directors on the use of Balanced Scorecard (BSC) practices. Combining insights from research on social networks in management and literature on organizational innovativeness and accounting, our theoretical framework suggests that interlocking directorates influence the likelihood of BSC use. Modelling variation in the rela...

It is still a challenging problem to characterize uncertainty and imprecision between specific (singleton) clusters with arbitrary shapes sizes. In order solve such problem, we propose belief shift clustering (BSC) method for dealing object data. The BSC considered as the evidential version of mean or mode seeking under theory functions. First, new notion, called shift, provided preliminarily a...

OBJECTIVE To translate quantitative ultrasound (QUS) from the laboratory into the clinic, it is necessary to demonstrate that the measurements are platform independent. Because the backscatter coefficient (BSC) is the fundamental estimate from which additional QUS estimates are calculated, agreement between BSC results using different systems must be demonstrated. This study was an intercompari...

Cell-specific and light-regulated expression of the beta-glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene from maize cab-m1 and rbcS-m3 promoter sequences was studied in maize leaf segments by using an in situ transient expression microprojectile bombardment assay. The cab-m1 gene is known to be strongly photoregulated and to be expressed almost exclusively in mesophyll cells (MC) but not in bundle sheath cel...

Recent years have witnessed rising interest towards integrated performance measurement and control systems. Total Quality Management (TQM) and Balanced Scorecard (BSC) are management philosophies that have been widely discussed not only in academic world, but also in business world. The aim of this paper is to compare the contents of TQM and BSC and to build a hierarchy of concepts between thes...

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a well-established framework for the management of a company as it integrates financial and non-financial perspectives. Little attention has been given to its theoretical and conceptual valuation. We illustrate how the stakeholder value theory corresponds with the concept of the BSC and show the importance of underlying cause-and-effect relationships between its ...

Stopping set properties determine the iterative decoding performance of any linear block code on the Binary Erasure Channel (BEC). Furthermore, there is a common conception that they are crucial factors on other channels, like the Binary Symmetric Channel (BSC), as well. In order to investigate whether this is true indeed, we study stopping set properties and iterative decoding performance on t...