<p>Professionalism in medical students: what actually makes a difference? [Letter]</p>

What makes medical students better listeners?

Diagnosing heart conditions by auscultation is an important clinical skill commonly learnt by medical students. Clinical proficiency for this skill is in decline [1], and new teaching methods are needed. Successful discrimination of heartbeat sounds is believed to benefit mainly from acoustical training [2]. From recent studies of auditory training [3,4] we hypothesized that semantic representa...

What makes a good teacher? Lessons from teaching medical students.

What a Difference a Variable Makes

We present an algorithm and tool to convert derivations from the powerful recently proposed PR proof system into the widely used DRAT proof system. The PR proof system allows short proofs without new variables for some hard problems, while the DRAT proof system is supported by top-tier SAT solvers. Moreover, there exist efficient, formally verified checkers of DRAT proofs. Thus our tool can be ...

What a difference a year makes.

At this time in 2016, US monetary policymakers were reeling from the reaction in financial markets wrought by their quarter-point rate hike at their December meeting. This was not the plan. Some tightening in 2015 had been tipped for what seemed like forever, so there was no element of surprise in the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) slipping into action just before the year closed. After t...

What a Difference a Default Setting Makes

This paper examines the effect of the default interface language on the usage of a bilingual digital library. In 2005 the default interface language of a bilingual digital library was alternated on a monthly basis between Māori and English. A comprehensive transaction log analysis over this period reveals that not only did usage in a particular language increase when the default interface langu...