Концептуальные позиции и следствия семиотической диагностики (сформулированные И.В. Мелик-Гайказян) инициировали разного рода запросы на проведение эмпирического исследования, связанного с изменениями педагогических контекстов в системе отечественного высшего медицинского образования. Идея предпринятого изыскания сводится к «обратному отражению» исследовательской программы педагогической биоэти...

Speaker transitions in conversation are often brief, with minimal vocal overlap. Signed languages appear to defy this pattern with frequent, long spans of simultaneous signing. But recent evidence suggests that turn boundaries in signed language may only include the content-bearing parts of the turn (from the first stroke to the last), and not all turn-related movement (from first preparation t...

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Throughout the history of East Asian medicine, different kinds of acupuncture treatment experiences have been accumulated in classical medical texts. Reexamining knowledge from classical medical texts is expected to provide meaningful information that could be utilized in current medical practices. In this study, we used data mining methods to analyze the association between acupoints and patte...

i was glancing at the proceedings of the 3rd national meeting of iranian association of medical editors of december 2010, few points took my attention worth mentioning. of the 173 medical science journals of iran only 54 are registered in the scopus database.1   at this gathering all the talks had been focused on the improvement of the quality and impact factors (if) which is the score that the...

This paper reports results of a meta-analysis of construct reliability measures reported in MIS research. Based on 418 measures from 63 articles published in four major journals, it is observed that although scales developed more recently are no more reliable than those developed in the 1980s, the reliability of most scales reported in the literature is above generally accepted levels. However,...

Children aged 3, 5, and 8 years received training on a temporal bisection task, with standard short and long durations being presented as visual stimuli lasting 1 and 4 s or 2 and 8 s. Nonstandard comparison stimuli were spaced linearly between the standards. Psychophysical functions showed increasing proportions of “long” responses (responses appropriate to the long standard) with increasing s...