background and purpose: clinical competence has four essential components: knowledge , physical exam , problem solving and communication skill .the communication skill isn’t an optional extra in medical training but it is a core clinical skill. this study is performed in order to determine whether communication skill training for internal medicine and infectious disease residents improves their...

We evaluated a video prompting and a constant time delay procedure for teaching three primary school students with moderate intellectual disabilities to access the Internet and download pictures related to participation in a classroom History project. Video clips were used as an antecedent prompt and as an error correction technique within a constant time delay (CTD) procedure. Training, using ...

objectives: a large number of congenitally deaf children are born annually. if not treated, this will have destructive effects on their language and speech development, educational achievements and future occupation. in this study it has been tried to determine the level of language skills in children with cochlear implants (ci) in comparison with normal hearing (nh) age-mates. methods: test of...

following the introduction of technology and information technology into the fields of industry, commerce and services, providing various services can be considered as one of the most important parts of the impact of this technology in order to provide part of the accepted financial services. lack of customers' necessity to attend the bank in person as well as offering so many internet ser...

What is the impact of the internet on state sovereignty, and in particular on states’ ability to control information flows across their borders? Whereas once the internet was presumed to be a borderless world of free-flowing information, today countries and corporations alike are carving it up in a bewildering array of filtered segments, often with major unintended consequences. The motivations...

BACKGROUND Using technology to access clinical information has become a critical skill for family physicians. The aims of this study were to assess the way family physicians use the Internet to look for clinical information and how their patterns vary from those of specialists. Further, we sought a better understanding of how family physicians used just-in-time information in clinical practice....

The Internet has made several giant leaps over the years, from a fixed to mobile Internet, then of Things, and now Tactile Internet. goes far beyond data, audio video delivery networks, even allowing communication collaboration among things. It is expected enable haptic communications allow skill set networks. Some examples potential applications are tele-surgery, vehicle fleets, augmented real...

This paper considers various interface decisions which need to be made for successful multimedia and internet design. Four main areas of recent research work are investigated. These four areas of software design are Age/ Gender, Design, Content and Quality/ Depth. These issues will be analysed in terms of recent empirical research with groups of users employing different multimedia packages. Ex...