Mixing upper level undergraduates majoring in engineering with those majoring in biology, we have devised a course on biologically-inspired design (BID) that provides practical training in methods and techniques that facilitate the identification and translation of biological principles into solutions…

The amount of information stored in databases doubled at every 20 months. There is important knowledge stored in text databases. The aim of these article was to solve the problem of “searching from general to particular” (SGP) in document databases.…

Objective: To practice evidence-based medicine a core set of concepts must be mastered. Recognizing this, we sought to develop and assess a mini-course in evidence-based medicine for fourth-year medical students. Design: A two-hour curriculum on evidence-based medicine training was developed…

Concept maps are bi-dimensional representations of cognitive structures showing the hierarchies and the interconnections of concepts involved in a discipline or a subdiscipline. Concept maps can be done in different ways, but they are best done using computer software designed…

ABSTRACTApplication of renewal process most commonly requires the knowledge of the mean value function and the variance function. In this study, Xie's RS method (1) is adapted to the computation of the variance function for the both ordinary and stationary…

This paper is based on the analysis of job advertisements by Turkish furniture companies that appeared in main daily newspapers in Turkey between April 1998 and May 2002. During this period, a total of 204 advertisements for different positions in…

We intend to suggest here methods for promoting the sites on World Wide Web. To optimize your site for the search engine it is necessary to follow a certain strategy when you build the hypertext. The methods we suggest are…

The emphasis of this chapter will be on the application of bioinformatics tools and database to identify and characterize novel gene targets, which is of interest to pharmaceutical companies. A pharmaceutical bioinformatics must design a system a system for converting…

LASER is an acronym for the phrase Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Most medical lasers emit light which are either ultraviolet, infrared or in the visible spectrum of light. When used by personnel with proper knowledge and…

From the very earliest moments in the modern history of the computer scientists and doctors alike were captivated by the potential of such a technology might have in medicine (e.g. Ledley and Lusted, 1959). With intelligent computers able to store…