Online learning requires higher levels of self-regulation in order to achieve optimal learning outcomes. As nursing education moves further into the blended and online learning venue, new teaching/learning strategies will be required to develop and enhance self-regulated learning skills in nursing students. The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of team-based learning (TBL) ...

Parmalee D, Michaelsen LK, Cook S, Hudes P. Teambased learning: a practical guide. AMEE guide no. 65. Med Teach 2012;34:e275-87. Background: This article provides an excellent introduction to team-based learning (TBL) and a useful practical guide to its implementation. TBL was originally developed in business schools in the early 1990s and has been promoted in health professions programs since ...

Peritoneal macrophage (PMO) function was examined ex vivo after their in vivo exposure to either acidic, lactate-buffered solutions (PD4; 40 mM lactate, pH 5.2), bicarbonate/lactate-buffered solution (TBL; 25 mM/15 mM bicarbonate/lactate, pH 7.3), or bicarbonate-buffered solution (TB; 38 mM bicarbonate, pH 7.3), containing either 1.36 or 3.86% glucose. Initial experiments demonstrated that tumo...

UNLABELLED SNPAAMapper, a genome-wide SNP downstream analysis and annotation pipeline, was designed to classify detected variants according to genomic regions and report the mutation class by processing whole-genome and/or whole-exome sequencing data. A widely used sequence and data annotation table format "knownGene.txt" has not yet been created for many popular model organisms (e.g. Arabidops...

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an important task in Natural Language Processing. It provides key features that help on more elaborated document management and information extraction tasks. In this paper, we propose seven machine learning approaches that use HMM, TBL and SVM to solve Portuguese NER. The performance of each modeling approach is empirically evaluated. The SVM-based extractor sh...

A growing number of educators are using social networking sites (SNS) to communicate with their students. Facebook is one such example which is widely used by students and educators. Facebook has been recently used by many educational institutions but most of these have been related to provide the information to the general audience. There has not been much study done to propose Facebook as an ...

The influence of some inorganic (K+, Mg2+, and Al3+) and organic CnH(2n+1)SO3-, n = 12 and 14) ions was studied on the hemolysis of erythrocytes (RBC) caused by organolead compounds (tripropyllead--TPL, tributyllead--TBL and triphenyllead--TPhL chlorides). It was found that sulfonate anions increased the hemolytic effect induced by triorganoleads, while inorganic cations protected RBC against t...