Bulletin on First-Year Latin

Thoughts on the Bulletin.

Because daguerreotype photographs are usually reversed laterally from actuality, images of W.T.G. Morton falsely suggest that he sometimes changed the side of the part in his hair. Because of daguerreotype image reversal, a statue of Apollo in the Ether Dome at the Massachusetts General Hospital appears to have been moved for the 50th anniversary of Ether Day. Ether anesthesia was announced in ...

First ISCB Latin American Student Council Symposium

The first Latin American Catheter Ablation Registry.

AIMS To assess the results of transcatheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias in Latin America and establish the first Latin American transcatheter ablation registry. METHODS AND RESULTS All ablation procedures performed between 1 January and 31 December 2012 were analysed retrospectively. Data were obtained on the characteristics and resources of participating centres (public or private instit...

First Year Report on Work Package 1

Objective of the WP. The key objectives of this work package are: 1. to develop a software library that contains tools for handling XML schemas, and which is suitable for testing the models and tools developed in the project; 2. to expand the focus of XML schema formalisms from the structure-centric to a data-oriented approach to XML and to develop models for handling data in XML documents; 3. ...

Observations on teaching first-year physics

Highly successful students, as measured by grades and by scores on the Force Concept Inventory, still struggle with fundamental concepts in mathematics and physics. These difficulties, which turn physics into parrot learning and include confusing velocity and acceleration or being unable to reason with graphs, are revealed by problems requiring estimation and conceptual reasoning. I discuss the...