With the push of civilian commercial technology development and the emergence of a vast military gaming community, military gaming technology undergoes an extremely rapid evolution. At present US Marines and Army, GBR, NLD, Canadian and Australian Armies have adopted Serious Games (SG) as essential training platforms for small infantry units and combined arms training. This Dutch study reports ...

PURPOSE This study aimed to assess the impact of ultrasound simulation (SonoSim) on educational outcomes of an introductory point-of-care ultrasound course compared to hands-on training with live models alone. METHODS Fifty-three internal medicine residents without ultrasound experience were randomly assigned to control or experimental groups. They participated in an introductory point-of-car...

Th ere can be arguments as to what training revolution we are in the midst of currently (Chatham, Chapters 2 and 10; Hunt, Chapter 5), but what does not seem debatable is that our society now confronts social, technological, and cultural conditions that require a revolution in training. Personnel in industry, health, military, and the public sector have more to learn in less time. Increasingly ...

We demonstrate that the performance of students in an introductory Physics course, a major stumbling block for Engineers, may be improved by a homework regime involving complex, multiple step problems. In introductory courses the work done out of class, or “homework” represents the principal method of training students in the manipulation of class material. In a standard Introductory Physics co...

A growing body of research has reported a bilingual advantage in performance on executive control tasks, but it is not known at what point in emerging bilingualism these advantages first appear. The present study investigated the effect of early stage second-language training on executive control. Monolingual English-speaking students were tested on a go-nogo task, sentence judgment task, and v...

This paper sets out to investigate military physicians’ perceptions and usage regarding a mobile medical information system during their military service in the Finnish Defence Forces. Data were gathered in September and December of 2005 by two semi-structured surveys. The military physicians (n=31) had positive perceptions of the mobile system, and have used it in their daily military training...

Military training activities are known to impact individual species, yet our understanding of how such activities influence animal communities is limited. In this study, we used long-term data in a case study approach to examine the extent to which the local small landbird community differed between a site in northeast Kansas that experienced intensive disturbance from military training activit...

Objective: To prospectively determine gait related risk factors for patellofemoral pain. Design: A prospective cohort study. Setting: Male and female recruits of the Belgian Royal Military Academy during a 6 week basic military training period. Participants: 84 officer cadets (65 men, 19 women), who entered the Military Academy and were without a history of any knee or lower leg complaints part...

The problem addre_ed by Mediation to Implement Feedback in Training (MIFT) is to customize the feedback from training ex_ by exploiting knowledge about the training scenario, training objectives, and specific student/teacher needs. We achieve this by inserting an intelligent mediation layer into the information flow from observations collected during training exercises to the display and user i...