PURPOSE Moral orientation can affect ethical decision-making. Very few studies have focused on whether medical education can change the moral orientation of the students. The purpose of the present study was to document the types of moral orientation exhibited by medical students, and to study if their moral orientation was changed after preclinical education. METHODS From 2007 to 2009, the M...

In this chapter, the authors introduce SequenceBook system, an interactive picture book that consists of a paper book with very thin IC (Integrated Circuit) tags embedded in each page and an RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) antenna. This system uses a traditional paper book as an interface and realizes natural interface that keeps the affordance of traditional book and thus smoothly prompt...

Knowledge linked to programming has recently been extensively strengthened in curricula and syllabi in the Swedish compulsory school. The introduction of this new content requires that teachers have to be trained in programming and programming teaching. The aim of this study is to investigate what content and values that emerge as important in a professional development course and in the partic...

The vehicle driving comfort has become one of the important factors of vehicle quality and receives increasing attention. In this paper, the mechanical and mathematical models of the halfcar, five degrees of freedom DOF of a vehicle were established, as well as the pseudoexcitation model of road conditions for the front wheel and the rear wheel. By the pseudoexcitation method, the equations of ...

The problem of particle number density measurements with a laser Doppler anemometer is addressed. Analytical expressions for the instrument measurement cross section are given. An automatic calibration method for determining unknown scattering parameters, which promises good accuracy in changeable optical conditions, is described. Estimates of the measurement uncertainty are derived and the met...

Understanding cellular structure is key to understanding cellular regulation. New developments in super-resolution fluorescence imaging, electron microscopy, and quantitative image analysis methods are now providing some of the first three-dimensional dynamic maps of biomolecules at the nanometer scale. These new maps--comprehensive nanometer-scale cellular cartographies--will reveal how the mo...

We present an approach to model supervisory control systems based on extended behaviour networks. In particular, we employ them to formalize the control theory of the supervisor. By separating the reasoning in the supervisor and the action implementation in the controller, the overall system architecture becomes modular, and therefore easily changeable and modifiable.

Uncoupled multilayer plates create a complex dynamical structure, where depending on input parameters and initial and boundary conditions, various vibration types appear. In spite of undoubtable achievements in static and dynamical problems of nonlinear theory of plates, the problems of contacts exhibited by multilayer plates subject to both longitudinal and transversal time-changeable loads ar...