results the results revealed no statistically significant difference in nurse’s competency mean scores between the lecture and multimedia cds groups. objectives the aim of this study was to assess the effect of two teaching methods (multimedia instructional module versus lecture presentation) on nurse’s competency in biological incidents. materials and methods in this quasi-experimental study, ...

Background: Training methods to reduce the anxiety caused by the electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) should match the necessity of communicating with the patients suffering from mood disorders. Aim: This study aimed to compare the effects of face-to-face and multimedia education on the anxiety induced by the ECT. Method: This randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on 75 patients with mo...

This comment, written for a symposium on Rowan Cruft's Human Rights, Ownership, and the Individual, considers some aspects of discussion property. I suggest that Cruft glosses over certain complexities in this area, especially concerning relation between property other kinds right. question Cruft’s arguments about justifiability indeed whether he is really interested as such.

Background: One of the ways for effective communication between learners and instructional multimedia content in mobile learning systems is taking advantage of characters or pedagogical agents. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of the levels of realism in mobile-based pedagogical agents on health e-learning. Methods: The s...

I present a method of identifying cognates in the vocabularies of related languages. I show that a measure of phonetic similarity based on multivalued features performs better than “orthographic” measures, such as the Longest Common Subsequence Ratio (LCSR) or Dice’s coefficient. I introduce a procedure for estimating semantic similarity of glosses that employs keyword selection and WordNet. Te...

TempoWordNet (TWn) has recently been proposed as an extension of WordNet, where each synset is augmented with its temporal connotation: past, present, future or atemporal. However, recent uses of TWn show contrastive results and motivate the construction of a more reliable resource. For that purpose, we propose an iterative strategy that temporally extends glosses based on TWn to obtain a poten...

This paper studies the application of text similarity methods to disambiguate ambiguous links between WordNet nouns and Wikipedia categories. The methods range from word overlap between glosses, random projections, WordNetbased similarity, and a full-fledged textual entailment system. Both unsupervised and supervised combinations have been tried. The goldstandard with disambiguated links is pub...