abstract   background and purpose: traditional lecture-based teaching has been long used to transit theoretical knowledge to the participants. due to some problems of this didactic approach, some believe that integration within an active method is more valuable in nursing education. in this study, we hypothesized that integrating lecture-based teaching within clerkship course would enhance nurs...

backgrounds: one of the most difficult tasks carried out by educators in health plan field is educational program assessment and students' clinical evaluation. logbook is an assessing tool that reduces the distance between the theory and practice; it could be definitely worthwhile for both the professors and the students to achieve the clinical and educational objectives. the purpose of th...

According to the demand for applied innovative talents of the railway industry and enterprises, based on the railway specialized characteristics advantage of the East China Jiaotong University, and in accordance with the system engineering thoughts as “setting training objectives, setting up training standards, building course system, reforming teaching methods and perfecting security system”, ...

BACKGROUND Proton beam therapy is promising for the treatment of head and neck cancer (HNC), but it is sensitive to uncertainties in patient positioning and particle range. Studies have shown that the planning target volume (PTV) concept may not be sufficient to ensure robustness of the target coverage. A few planning studies have considered irradiation of unilateral HNC targets with protons, b...

Moving rapidly between patient examining rooms, physicians have to examine, diagnose and decide on a course of treatment appropriate for each patient. However, if the patient’s health plan administrators subsequently deny coverage, the prescribed treatments would then have to be changed. There are a wide range of health insurance plans and varying cost curtailment procedures. Physicians are the...

In a general setting, oversubscription in planning can be posed as: given a set of goals, each one with a utility, obtain a plan that achieves some (or all) the goals, maximizing the utility, as well as minimizing the cost of achieving those goals. In this paper, we present an application domain, automatic generation of e-learning courses design, that shows a variation of the oversubscription p...

background: tangential irradiation of intact breast is one of the most common procedures performed in any radiotherapy center. this method is performed by using 2d and 3d treatment planning. the aim of this study was to compare 2d with 3d plans in breast conserving radiotherapy. homogeneity of isodose, and lung received dose were compared. materials and methods: twenty patients with breast canc...

This thesis describes an approach to robotic assembly planning based on a logic of plan specification formulae. These formulae consist of a term representing the plan, a description of the states before and after the plan is performed (using a simple but structured world model), and a set of literals which can be evaluated as Prolog goals to test preconditions and generate terms to appear in th...

In contrast to Computer Science, where the fundamental role of Logic is widely recognized, it plays a practically non-existent role in Information Systems curricula. In this paper we argue that instead of Logic’s exclusion from the IS curriculum, a significant adaptation of the contents, as well as teaching methodologies, is required for an alignment with the needs of IS practitioners. We prese...

This course addresses methods in performing randomised controlled trials in general practice with a special emphasize on cluster randomised trials. Students will develop an understanding of how to plan, implement, analyze, report and evaluate RCTs. Original research will be presented by principal investigators, followed by discussions of papers with focus on design options and analytic strategi...