What you don't learn at the bench…

David Oliver: What you don't learn at medical school.

Memories of my first weeks as a doctor remain vivid—elation at finally using six years’ training, exhaustion from the nights, nervousness at unfamiliar situations, and new, bluffed attempts to project and inspire confidence. Yes, it’s August again, when new UKmedical graduates hit the hospitals for their first paid jobs. My first year gave me fulfilled vocation, brutal hours, gallows humour, ca...

Control Valve – What You Need to Learn

ii) The control valve Manufacturer can only state the Inherent valve characteristics, which refer to the flowrate (F) – valve travel position (m or Z) relationship, when the pressure drop across the control valve (DPV) is constant. Note that the pressure drop across the control valve (DPV) can be almost constant only if the piping system pressure drop (DPS) is concentrated at the control valve ...

Evolution of Sociality: You Are What You Learn

Division of labour is the cornerstone of successful societies. A new study has shown that individual experience can produce long-lasting task specialisation in ants. This asks for a reappraisal of the role of individual learning in insect societies.

Learning from number board games: you learn what you encode.

We tested the hypothesis that encoding the numerical-spatial relations in a number board game is a key process in promoting learning from playing such games. Experiment 1 used a microgenetic design to examine the effects on learning of the type of counting procedure that children use. As predicted, having kindergartners count-on from their current number on the board while playing a 0-100 numbe...

What Can You Learn from the Gait in Cats?