"We Never Thought It Would Be Like This": Refugees' Experiences in Sicily

Genetic background of Brugada syndrome is more complex than what we would like it to be!

Brugada syndrome (BrS) has been named after the description of the disease made by the Brugada brothers in 1992. BrS is clinically characterized by arrhythmic events, in particular ventricular fibrillation, resulting in syncope and sudden cardiac arrest mainly in middle-aged men. The ECG shows a peculiar down-sloping elevation of the ST segment in the right pre-cordial ECG leads with inversion ...

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Are They Using It How We Thought They Would? an Evaluation of Studentstm Learning Processes

Despite the best intentions, educational technology developers often fail to carry out evaluations of their programs while they are under development. This paper reports on a formative evaluation of students’ learning processes while completing an interactive multimedia program called Legal Interviewing Skills. The evaluation found that students used a number of learning strategies which were n...

It Doesn't Have to Be Like This: Cybersecurity Vulnerability Trends

It often seems that every newly announced major data breach sets a record for the depth and size of impact. Internet users, nearly everyone these days, naturally wonder: Why is this happening, and how much worse can it get? In the inaugural article for this column, published in January 2009, we reviewed trends in vulnerabilities for the previous eight years [2]. Our goal, then as well as now, i...

Where Would We Be Without Counterfactuals?

One hundred years ago this Sunday, on November th, , Bertrand Russell delivered the Inaugural Address to the Aristotelian Society’s thirty-fourth session – it was Russell’s second year as President. His lecture was entitled ‘On the Notion of Cause’, and as the Proceedings here note, a discussion followed in which a number of members took part. Outside the Aristotelian Society, the discussion co...