The paper focuses on the information system the core component of which is an educational thesaurus. The learning management system is proposed based on the appropriate educational thesauri. Also, effective procedures of the thesauri filling and ranking are discussed. An analysis carried by the authors revealed the drawbacks of the conventional learning tools and became the initial point for th...

Past studies have shown successful outcomes regarding the use of various interventional education methods in improving patient compliance. At our institution, different educational resources are offered and encouraged, including a 2-hour-long educational class, to prepare patients who are undergoing total joint arthroplasty procedures. Given the significant impact that patient compliance with p...

Methodology and Interpretive Procedures’ acknowledges the vital importance of methodology as I construct a discourse that examines discourses. Through Ball (1994) this paper considers methodological terms such as critical, analyst, risk , imagination , reflexive and reflective. Accepting that the naming of any field is contestable therefore risky, the educational field of focus is ‘the arts’. T...

OBJECTIVE to study the perception of a Neonatal Intensive Care team on pain assessment and management before and after an educational intervention created and implemented in the unit. METHODS intervention study developed as action research, in three phases. In Phase 1, a quantitative study was performed to identify how professionals perceive pain management in the unit. In Phase 2, an educati...

In this paper is presented an empirical study and its results. The empirical study was designed through a pilot training program which was conducted in order to learn if Greek educators can learn to use and even adopt the use of web 2.0 tools and services in the educational process and in which extend, where the type of learning is either distant learning, blended learning or the learning takes...

Grounded theory‖s popularity persists after three decades of broad-ranging critique. We discuss here three problematic notions – “theory,” “ground” and “discovery” – which linger in the continuing use and development of grounded theory procedures. We argue that far from providing the epistemic security promised by grounded theory, these notions – embodied in continuing reinventions of grounded ...

371 Cutaneous Response to Patch Tests with Dermatophagoides Farinae and Dermatophagoides Pteronyssinus in Patients with Chronic Rhinitis Diego Garcia-Calderin, MD, Sandra González-Díaz, MD, PhD, Alfredo Arias-Cruz, MD, Alejandro Rojas, MD, Marisela Hernandez, MD, Claudia Gallego, MD, Karla Mejia, MD, Maricruz Calva, MD, and Luis Dominguez, MD. Regional Centre of Allergy and Clinical Immunology,...

Evidence suggests that stopping oral anticoagulation with warfarin is not necessary in patients requiring low-risk dental procedures and may actually increase thrombosis risk. However, widespread belief remains among dentists that stopping oral anticoagulation for dental procedures is necessary. The purpose of this study was to investigate the teaching practice of U.S. dental faculty responsibl...

This paper describes systematic procedures used to assess, train, and compare the use of adaptive microswitches for microcomputers used by adolescents with cerebral palsy. A comparison is made of three students with cerebral palsy using microswitches to increase their production rates as part of a vocational training program. Future uses of adaptive microswitches in vocational and educational t...

VEMiTV project involves the establishing of t-learning potential on a specific educational setting: elementary schools. This document describes the working hypothesis and the usability and cognitive procedures being followed in that project, while at the same time discusses t-learning potential as a formal or informal learning strategy.