VAULTING INTUITION: TEMKIN'S CRITIQUE OF TRANSITIVITY

Vaulting Intuition: Temkin's Critique of Transitivity

Vaulting optimality

The target article provokes three comments and one more general criticism. First, the reason it is not surprising that "[the optimality heuristic] is used most systematically and successful

Intuition as a function of the expert nurse: a critique of Benner's novice to expert model.

Benner's model of skill acquisition is currently receiving considerable interest from nurse educationalists, and promises to form the basis for some curricula offered by colleagues of nurse education. This paper debates the 'novice to expert' model and seeks to explain exactly what an 'expert' is. The Benner model proposes that one component of expertise is working from an intuitive base. This ...

Topological Transitivity and Strong Transitivity

We discuss the relation between (topological) transitivity and strong transitivity of dynamical systems. We show that a transitive and open self-map of a compact metric space satisfying a certain expanding condition is strongly transitive. We also prove a couple of results for interval maps; for example it is shown that a transitive piecewise monotone interval map is strongly transitive.

Vaulting quantification during level walking of transfemoral amputees.

BACKGROUND Vaulting is a gait compensatory mechanism used by transfemoral amputees to assist toe clearance during the prosthetic swing phase. It is defined by a plantar flexion of the contralateral ankle during the single-limb support phase. The aim of the study is to propose a method to quantify vaulting of transfemoral amputees. METHODS 17 transfemoral amputees and 28 asymptomatic subjects ...