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In its 2005 ͚HEFCE stƌategLJ foƌ e-leaƌŶiŶg͛ doĐuŵeŶt the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) expressed a commitment to work with its partners to "embed e-learning in higher education in a full and sustainable way within the next ten years" (HEFCE, 2005:3). This article examines the literature on e-learning within nurse education and considers potential discipline related factors which may have influenced rates of adoption. It also discusses the wider impli...

Web-based education is getting an increasing popularity due to its clear benefits - classroom independence and platform independence [1]. Web-based and web-assisted courses are becoming a common practice in both college education and business training. More and more instructors put course related information or links to such information on the web to support students’ learning and require that students use web materials when performing learning tasks such as course assignments, proje...

Singular Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) based genotyping is a fast and cost effective approach to identify functionally important polymorphisms of a species [1]. Such gene markers can be linked with disease, complex traits or be used to provide family information. Multiplex microarray systems have been developed for SNP genotyping to provide sufficiently dense coverage for genome wide association studies [2, 3]. For instance, Affymetrix array technology [2] can interrogate 906,6...

Nursing Education Active teaching methods are recognized as educational approaches by which teachers support students in the development of critical thinking (CT) [1,2]. One strategy for developing CT is to allow nursing students to actively participate in the learning process with the support of technology. Simulation-based learning (SBL) is a teaching strategy that may enhance the integration of theoretical and practical knowledge and the ability to reflect and to give and receive feed...

Human brucellosis is most commonly caused by two species of the genus Brucella, typically B. abortus from cattle and B. melitensis from goats and sheep. The definitive diagnosis of brucellosis rests upon demonstration of the causative bacterium in a suspected patient’s body fluid, typically by culture isolation [1,2]. While detection of Brucella nucleic acids [3–13] or antigens [14] would be expected to be diagnostic for new cases of brucellosis, DNA has been reported to persist in bl...

Evidence Based Practice (EBP), or evidence based medicine (EBM), has been adopted as a core unit across many medical schools worldwide, with a particular focus in Australian Universities [1]. The principles of EBP inform medical decision making by integrating the best available evidence with clinical expertise and patient values [2]. Adopting an evidence based approach to medicine requires that practitioners are competent in understanding and applying the following steps in clinical prac...

1. Introduction Target identifications/tracking, management of air traffic, and remote sensing are all common uses of ECG [1, 2] where transmitters send signal bursts and receivers receive dispersed versions of those signals. e scattering of signals is measured using TDEs and Doppler shifts in received signals, and the target’s range and radial velocities are computed. ese measurements are employed as measurements in ECG [3]. e fundamental concept of radars is similar to that of ...

A core aspect of diagnosis in rehabilitation is the observation of movements as a basis for interventions to improve functional abilities (Skjaerven, Kristoffersen, and Gard, 2008). During the assessment, a physical therapist observes the quantity and quality of movements. The quantity of movements reflects the acquisition or reacquisition of new or more complex motor skills (Schmidt and Wrisberg, 2008). The quality of movement gives an impression of how movements are controlled and coo...

NTRODUCTION Since the time of Sir William Osler, there have been several opinions on how medical students learn best and how their learning environments can be improved (Armstrong et al., 2004; Becker, 2014). Although a few papers have been published on undergraduate college student learning of anatomy and physiology (Dobson and Linderholm, 2015), none, to our knowledge, have specifically focused on how to use evidence-based strategies to learn clinical anatomy in medical school. This ...

Introduction Learning is fundamental to quality and safety improvement efforts in healthcare and has been an integral part of researchers’ and policy makers’ agendas for decades. The traditional logic, both within healthcare, workplaces, and education is that learning from adverse events helps improve structures and systems, and avoids future reoccurrences, thereby ensuring safer and better outcomes [1–5]. Within healthcare, this traditional approach - focusing on adverse ev...