The Effect of an Educational Program for Mental Visualization to Teaching Some Shooting Skills Basketball Beginners

PURPOSE To evaluate the usefulness of a virtual ultrasound (US) imaging device as a tool to assist novice sonographers. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective blinded pilot study was conducted involving patients with liver lesions. Two sonographers and 2 medical doctors with less than 5 years of experience performed US examinations. The time needed to detect liver lesions on US and the success r...

We describe a course in Nonlinear Dynamics for undergraduate students of the first years of Chemical Engineering, Environmental Sciences and Computer Sciences. An extensive use of computational tools, the internet and laboratory experiments are key ingredients of the course. Even though their previous background in physics and mathematics might be limited, our experience shows that an appropria...

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is the primary means used to measure brain function non-invasively in humans, because of the advantages it offers in terms of high spatiotemporal resolution and localization as compared to other non-invasive modalities (e.g. EEG, MEG). Since its emergence about 20 years ago, it has rapidly evolved into the mainstay of functional neuroimaging for neur...

Is it retinal detachment? While most often the diagnosis of retinal detachment is straightforward, there could be confusion on occasions. Conditions that can be confused with retinal detachment are retinal oedema (as in Berlin’s oedema), retinoschisis, choroidal detachment, thick vitreous membranes (as in Uveitis), altered blood, etc. Evaluation should include careful slit lamp biomicroscopy, i...