Psychometrics as a Tool to Improve Credit Information

Closing gaps: integrating food safety management systems into the veterinary curriculum, as a tool to improve food quality and trade

Information technology as a tool to improve the quality of American Indian health care.

The American Indian/Alaska Native population experiences a disproportionate burden of disease across a spectrum of conditions. While the recent National Healthcare Disparities Report highlighted differences in quality of care among racial and ethnic groups, there was only very limited information available for American Indians. The Indian Health Service (IHS) is currently enhancing its informat...

Design and Psychometrics of an Assessment Tool for University Characteristics as a Learning Organization from the perspective of Educational Leaders

Introduction: Universities as learning organizations are places for transcendence, teaching, research and offering knowledge. The aim of this study was to design and assess psychometric properties of an assessment tool for university characteristics as a learning organization from the perspective of educational leaders. Methods: This mixed methods research was performed on faculty members of Te...

Imagery as a Tool to Improve Idea Development

This paper shows that use of mental imagery alone during conceptual designing can improve idea development compared to idea development via sketching. We analysed design protocols of six expert architects working on two different design problems on the same site under two different conditions, one in which they were blindfolded and one in which they were sketching. Architects developed design i...

Point-of-Care Ultrasonography in Orthopedics: A Helpful Tool to Improve Patient Care

An enormous technological improvement in Ultrasonography devices has occurred during last decade, providing excellent soft-tissue contrast and high spatial resolution images. Nowadays, musculoskeletal ultrasonography is going to be a stethoscope in the hand of orthopedic surgeons for the diagnosis of many musculoskeletal pathologies, as well as an accurate guide for therapeutic interventions. T...