AIMS This article reports on a study which examined the predictive relationship between emotional intelligence and the following programme outcomes for student nurses: clinical practice performance; academic performance and retention. BACKGROUND In the context of concerns about a lack of compassionate care and amid calls for values-based selection procedures, emotional intelligence is emergin...

Amazons is a two-player perfect information game with an average number of legal moves that is higher than chess, shogi or Go. Our aim is to improve the search efficiency of an Amazons program by finding good moves to search first, thus improving the efficiency of α-β search. In earlier work, we established that a static move ordering scheme has important problems and that move ordering needs t...

Decisions always involve both facts and values, whereas most science communication focuses only on facts. If science communication is intended to inform decisions, it must be competent with regard to both facts and values. Public participation inevitably involves both facts and values. Research on public participation suggests that linking scientific analysis to public deliberation in an iterat...

Following the goals of Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), this paper describes how Native Hawaiian values emerged as a methodology for the conduct of a study with Native Hawaiians residing in Southern California. The equitable placing of community values side by side with scientific values show that community concepts can parallel and extend CBPR premises and are more than a variabl...

The Nigerian educational system is based on the objectives that the system should be able to build a free, just and egalitarian society and a united, strong and self reliant nation among others. Achievement of these objectives depends largely on the quality of education given to the citizens. To develop capacity to learn, acquire knowledge and skills that are essential for transformation of ind...

One of the important stages of data mining is preprocessing, where the data is prepared for different mining tasks. Often, the real-world data tends to be incomplete, noisy, and inconsistent. It is very common that the data are not obtainable for every observation of every variable. So the presence of missing variables is obvious in the data set. A most important task when preprocessing the dat...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The advent of new anti-angiogenic therapies has created the need for better defining regions of abnormal vascularity in order to add specificity to the classification of high-grade gliomas. This study investigated MR imaging parameters corresponding to the peak height and percent recovery of the T2* relaxivity curve to characterize angiogenesis and microvascular leakage w...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Optimizing high-grade glioma treatment requires the delineation of edematous and normal brain from tumor, perhaps by using potential differences in the absolute diffusion parameters of water. Our purpose was to determine whether mean diffusivity and diffusion anisotropic MR imaging data help in this differentiation. METHODS Nine patients with high-grade cerebral gli...

Purpose: Diffusion weighted MRI (DWI) is influenced by perfusion effects at lower b-values, an effect sometimes termed intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM). Movement of blood in microvasculature can be modeled as pseudo-diffusion and this perfusion effect can be separately determined if both low (<200 sec/mm) and high b values are used. The purpose of our study was to calculate perfusion fractio...