Aims: This study aims at comparing hospitals’ organizational traits and nurses and hospitals’ characteristics between teaching, governmental, and private hospitals in Jordan, as perceived by Registered Nurses (RNs). Methods: The Revised Nursing Work Index (NWI-R) 1 was used to collect data from a convenience sam of 295 nurses who were employed in two teaching hospitals, four governmental hospit...

As computational learning agents continue to improve their ability to learn sequential decision-making tasks, a central but largely unfulfilled goal is to deploy these agents in real-world domains in which they interact with humans and make decisions that affect our lives. People will want such interactive agents to be able to perform tasks for which the agent’s original developers could not pr...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are an increasingly ubiquitous component of everyday life, also having a significant impact on education. Literature shows how the learning of relevant science topics may be enhanced by introducing computer assisted teaching materials, and provides convincing evidence for the application of ICT into education (Butler, 2006; Edelson, 2003; Edelson...

This article estimates the magnitude and quality of antibiotic prescribing in Indonesian hospitals and aims to identify demographic, socio-economic, disease-related and healthcare-related determinants of use. An audit on antibiotic use of patients hospitalized for 5 days or more was conducted in two teaching hospitals (A and B) in Java. Data were collected by review of records on the day of dis...

In [1], we introduced mechanical learning and proposed 2 approaches to mechanical learning. Here, we follow one such approach to well describe the objects and the processes of learning. We discuss 2 kinds of patterns: objective and subjective pattern. Subjective pattern is crucial for learning machine. We prove that for any objective pattern we can find a proper subjective pattern based upon le...

Presented here is a list, by no means e x h a u s t i ve, of re s o u rces for teaching and learning. Other re s o u rc e s a re on campus, including those in the learning re s o u rce center, multimedia lab, computer center, information technology lab, library, graphics department, and center for teaching and learning. Get a listing of educational publishers from the b o o k s t o re manager, ...