“Mind the gap”: cultural revitalisation and educational change

The challenges of educational change: cultural and psychological inertia

In this issue of the CMEJ we showcase several studies of successful innovations, a commentary calling for more and better research into curriculum delivery models to eventually improve the choices available to curriculum planners, and a suggestion that a recent change in resident work hours was ill advised. Applied research, which is much of what currently happens in medical education, by its v...

“Mind the Gap” in Reporting the Outdated Statistics

The Effect of Social and Cultural Factors on Generation Gap

This study focuses on the effect of social and cultural determinants on generation gap in Tehranian families in 2011. The purpose of this study is to determine effective factors on generation gap in Tehranian families, analytical and empirical patterns and be surveyed by related theories and effective factors. The research was prepared by questions including whether there is a relationship betw...

Mind the (Intelligibility) Gap

Intelligibility, evolution and emulation are some of the key notions for digital information preservation. In this paper we define formally these notions on the basis of modules and inter-module dependencies. Subsequently, we discuss how we can handle the evolution of modules and dependencies. This work can be exploited for building advanced preservation information systems and registries.

Mind the Gap!

In 1835, the French naturalist Felix Dujardin started crushing ciliates under the microscope and observed that the tiny cells exuded a jellylike, water-insoluble substance, which he described as a ‘‘gelée vivante’’ and which was eventually christened ‘‘protoplasm’’ by the physician Johann E. Purkinje and the botanist Hugo von Mohl. Fifty years after Dujardin’s observations, the possibility that...