BACKGROUND Interprofessional education (IPE) interventions are not always successful in achieving learning outcomes. Team-Based Learning (TBL) would appear to be a suitable pedagogical method for IPE, as it focuses on team performance; however, little is known about interprofessional TBL as an instructional framework for patient safety. In this pilot-study, we aimed to (1) describe participants...

Predicting prosodic words boundaries will directly influence the naturalness of synthetic speech, because prosodic word is at the lowest level of prosody hierarchy. In this paper, a Chinese prosodic phrasing method based on CRF and TBL model is proposed. First a CRF model is trained to predict the prosodic words boundaries from lexicon words. After that we apply a TBL based error driven learnin...

The experimental synthesis of acoustic or aerodynamic wall-pressure excitations over industrial structures, for instance an aircraft sidewall or a car window, is a cost-efficient approach in order to optimise the insulating performance of these structures under real-life forcing generated in a controlled environment. Several strategies like inverse filtering in the spatial or wavenumber domains...

BACKGROUND Tuberculous lymphadenitis (TBL) is the most common form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Currently, the standard diagnostic test for TBL is culture, which takes more than several weeks to yield results. We studied a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in cervical lymph node specimens obtained from patients in a country where the ...

PURPOSE We tested the effect of team-based learning (TBL) on medical education through the second-year premedical students' TBL scores in biochemistry classes over 5 years. METHODS We analyzed the results based on test scores before and after the students' debate. The groups of students for statistical analysis were divided as follows: group 1 comprised the top-ranked students, group 3 compri...

This paper presents a fast and efficient contiguous allocation strategy for 3D mesh multicomputers, referred to as Turning Busy List (TBL for short), which can identify a free sub-mesh of the requested size as long as it exists in the mesh system. Turning means that the orientation of the allocation request is changed when no sub-mesh is available in the requested orientation. The TBL strategy ...

Bats hibernate to cope with low ambient temperatures (T(a)) and low food availability during winter. However, hibernation is frequently interrupted by arousals, when bats increase body temperature (T(b)) and metabolic rate (MR) to normothermic levels. Arousals account for more than 85% of a bat's winter energy expenditure. This has been associated with variation in T(b), T(a) or both, leading t...

Tuberculosis-like lesions (TBL) in pigs have been associated with microorganisms other than mycobacteria. In this work a histopathological and microbiological evaluation of TBL in pigs is shown. A total of 352 samples belonging to 171 pigs totally condemned at slaughterhouse due to generalized TBL were sampled and selected for analysis. Pyogranulomatous (56.2%) and granulomatous lesions (20.2%)...

A team-based Learning (TBL) tutor training workshop on research and publication ethics was offered to 8 faculty members and 3 staff at Hallym University in 2009. To investigate the effect of the workshop and any attitude changes, a questionnaire survey was performed after the 8-hr course. Questions in four categories-general course content, change in attitudes toward research and publication et...

With calls for innovation in nursing education from national bodies of nursing, nurse educators must determine the best teaching strategies to meet educational standards. Team-based learning (TBL), an innovative teaching strategy, offers educators a structured, student-centered learning environment. The purpose of this study was to compare TBL and traditional lecture (a commonly used teaching m...