OBJECTIVE The study investigated whether video-otoscopic images taken by a telehealth clinic facilitator are sufficient for accurate asynchronous diagnosis by an otolaryngologist within a heterogeneous population. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A within-subject comparative design was used with 61 adults recruited from patients of a primary healthcare clinic. The telehealth clinic facilitator had no for...

Education systems have been grossly negatively impacted by COVID-19 globally. Institutions including universities, colleges, and elementary schools were closed to prevent the disease from spreading. Lockdown social distancing are some of preventive measures that imposed greatest challenges on education system. Different training learning strategies adopted ensure continuity in provision Busines...

Decentralisation of infrastructure delivery to sub-national governments has become commonplace in worldwide especially developing countries such as Ghana. This is due the benefits decentralisation improving public service delivery. However, decentralised marred with numerous challenges that render most local incapable providing within their localities. paper explored bureaucratic factors impede...

To specify a Bayes net (BN), a conditional probability table (CPT), often of an effect conditioned on its n causes, needs assessed for each node. Its complexity is generally exponential in n. Noisy-OR reduces the complexity to linear, but can only represent reinforcing causal interactions. The non-impeding noisy-AND (NIN-AND) tree is the first causal model that explicitly expresses reinforcemen...

Overcoming the impeding influences of institutional and social factors in the mentoring process Commentary Having a mentor is critical to having a successful career in academic medicine and requires a diligent work in finding the appropriate mentor (1), but I would add that a certain amount of luck is needed as well, as that decission will certainly affect the success of a longtime work and the...

This paper will examine one of the factors posited to influence the emergence of spatial presence – attention. By examining how elements within a virtual environment, specifically Second LifeTM, as well as how the environment is utilized – individually, in small or large group gatherings. The study is expected to shed light on the role distractions have on impeding the attention necessary for f...