Healthcare facilities are often complex and overwhelming for visitors, and wayfinding in healthcare facilities can be challenging. As there is an increasing number of global citizens who travel to seek medical care in another country, it is critical to make wayfinding easy for visitors who are not familiar with the language in a foreign country. Among many wayfinding aids, symbols are helpful f...

This study investigates the role of phonological and morphological information in children's developing orthographies in two languages with different linguistic typologies: Hebrew, a Semitic language with a highly synthetic morphology, and Dutch, a Germanic language with a sparse morphology. 192 Israeli and 192 Belgian monolingual schoolchildren in grades 1-6 (aged 6;0-12;0) were administered r...

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...

• You have 90 minutes to complete the quiz. • Write your solutions in the exam booklet. We will not consider any work not in the exam booklet. • This quiz has three problems that are in no particular order of difficulty. • You may give an answer in the form of an arithmetic expression (sums, products, ratios, factorials) of numbers that could be evaluated using a calculator. Expressions like ( ...

the present study aims at exploring the relation between long term memory and two teaching methods: research-centered teaching and customary lecturing. the promotion of exploratory thinking which is provoked in the research-centered teaching method is considered to lead to hypothetical research and analytical thinking among students. two separate courses in neurophysiology at tehran university ...

Explored through a pedagogical lens, Plato’s Theuth and Thamus anecdote reveals an educational intervention designed to examine apply the teachings of Socrates ‘real-world’ philosophical conundrum: how wisely contend with introduction new technology. This work suggests that can be viewed as black white horses chariot metaphor, this driving lesson helps student-philosophers understand role wisdo...

Who Performs Better under Time Pressure? Results from a Field Experiment We investigate whether and how time pressure affects performance. We conducted a field experiment in which students from an Italian University are proposed to choose between two exam schemes: a standard scheme without time pressure and an alternative scheme consisting of two written intermediate tests, one of which to be t...