Clinicians are expected to have up-to-date and broad knowledge of disease treatment options for a patient. Online health knowledge resources contain a wealth of information. However, because of the time investment needed to disseminate and rank pertinent information, there is a need to summarize the information in a more concise format. Our aim of the study is to provide clinicians with a conci...

This Paper presents improvements done to a Programming by Demonstration(PbD)system in order to handle complex one and two hand manipulations. In order to do this, functional roles were added to the systems knowledge base. According to them a probability density function expressing the relationship between the manipulated objects has been set up. Since one object can fulfill several functional r...

AIM This account, based on the experience of the first author, aims to describe an example of practice from a hospital in South Sudan. The example illustrates a cross-cultural encounter and the challenges that a Sudanese nurse and an expatriate nurse face in sharing knowledge when providing patient care. CONTENT The constructed practical example between nurses with different knowledge bases a...

UNLABELLED In 1998, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) adopted a rule requiring that skinfolds (SF) or hydrostatic weighing (HW) be used to estimate minimum weight (MW) in college wrestlers. PURPOSE To cross-validate the NCAA methods for estimation of MW using a multicomponent criterion (4C). METHODS Criterion MW was calculated from body density (BD), bone mineral content (...