P11-Why Cannot We Assess Aptitude in Iran

Otolaryngology workforce planning: why we cannot wait for perfect data.

Why We should Assess Patients’ Expectations in Clinical Trials

Most of the analgesic clinical trials have failed to succeed over the past years because of the occurrence of large placebo responses. Patients' expectations about the therapeutic benefit represent a major determinant of the placebo response. Therefore, assessing patients' expectations should become the rule in any clinical trial. This would allow us to better interpret therapeutic outcomes whe...

Rehabilitation Services: Why should we use Tele-rehabilitation in IRAN? (Necessity and Application)

People living in rural areas far from health care centers are more likely to require health care services due to their long distances services and poverty(1). Tele-rehabilitation is considered as one of the rapidly emerging and growing areas of telemedicine and a precious model for providing clinical services like assessment, treatment and follows up as well as reducing the length of time for h...

Why Machines Cannot be

Mental processes are abstracted from a subset of the physical universe ; these, in turn, lead to the world of ideas. Although these ideas include quantum logic, no credible way has yet been found that constructs machines which use superimposed possibilities in the style of quantum logic, more general in computing power to machines based on classical logic. Machine theories are based exclusively...

How Colourful was Your Day? Why Questionnaires Cannot Assess Presence in Virtual Environments

This paper argues that a scientific basis for ‘presence’ as usually understood in virtual environments research, cannot be established on the basis of post-experience presence questionnaires. To illustrate the point, an arbitrary mental attribute called ‘colourfulness of the experience’ is conjured up, and a set of questions administered to 74 respondents with an on-line questionnaire. The resu...

How Colorful was Your Day? Why Questionnaires Cannot Assess Presence in Virtual Environments

This paper argues that a scientific basis for “presence” as it’s usually understood in virtual environments research, cannot be established on the basis of postexperience presence questionnaires alone. To illustrate the point, an arbitrary mental attribute called “colorfulness of the experience” is conjured up, and a set of questions administered to 74 respondents with an online questionnaire. ...