This study focuses on the comparison of expert assessment of virtual surgical procedures through Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) with the automatic assessment and feedback provided by a surgical simulator for hysteroscopic procedures. The existing multi-metric scoring system of the simulator was extended to include hysteroscopic myomectomy. The original OSATS was als...

Laura Dinnebier, Alexandra Graevskaia, Andrea Rumpel und Merve Schmitz-Vardar führen in diesem Beitrag den Konzeptband ein beschreiben die Entwicklungslinien deutscher Migrationsforschung entlang politischer Problemkonstruktionen -wahrnehmungen. Der widmet sich der (disziplinären) Pluralität innerhalb des Forschungsgebiets sowie epistemologischen Grundfragen, kritische Perspektiven jüngere Deba...

one of the most important issues in the plant layout design especially in mass production organizations with high inter-plant logistics is‘material flow and inter-plant traffic analysis and its effects on the production capabilities or pauses in production lines. in this paper the inter-plant traffic analysis issue on the basis of single channel queue model (m/m/1) is analyzed in a carmaker c...

The performance of collective communication is critical to the overall system performance. In general, the performance of the collective communication is dependent not only on the underlying hardware, but also its implementation. To evaluate the performance of collective communication accurately, identifying the most representative metrics and using correct measurement techniques are two import...

Currently 19%-28% of Internet users participate in online health discussions. In this work, we study sentiments expressed on online medical forums. As well as considering the predominant sentiments expressed in individual posts, we analyze sequences of sentiments in online discussions. Individual posts are classified into one of the five categories encouragement, gratitude, confusion, facts, an...