In the first year of medical studies in France, students prepare for a highly selective entrance exam limited by numerus clausus into the second year. We have discontinued live lectures, made maximum use of new information and communication technologies and introduced tutorials in an attempt to make the first year more equitable and to personalise teaching. The reform is based on blended learni...

This article presents the participation of Synapse Développement to the CLEF 2014 Entrance Exam campaign (QA track). Since fifteen years, our company works on Question Answering domain. Recently our work concentrated on Machine Reading and Natural Language understanding. Thus, the Entrance Exam evaluation was an excellent opportunity to measure the results of this work. The developed system is ...

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology Annual Conference 2009 April 29–May 1, 2009 Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, DC Sponsored by the American Heart Association Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. Conference Chair: Alan Daugherty, PhD, DSc, FAHA Conference Co-Chairs: Robert A. Hegele, MD, FAHA; Murray W. Huff, PhD, FAHA Conference Program Committee Timoth...

Screening for Asymptomatic Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, and Trichomonas vaginalis Infection using De-identified Urine Samples Received by the Navy Drug Screening Laboratory, San Diego Judith Harbertson, PhD, MPH; Paul Scott, MD, MPH; Paul Graf, PhD; Lisa Kennemur, PhD; Matthew Jamerson, PhD; Brent House, PhD; Melinda Balansay-Ames, BS; Chris A. Myers, PhD; Gary Brice, PhD; Brad...

background: temporomandibular joint is one of the most complicated joints of the body and plays an important role in the head and neck system. one of the factors affecting the temporomandibular joint and lead to temporomandibular disorder is anxiety with all the events causing it. the aim of this study was to determine a relationship between anxiety and temporomandibular disorders. materials an...

This study examined the substantive and predictive validity facets of the University Entrance Examination for English Major (UEEEM) students. To that aim, 111 English major students were recruited to report their scores on each of the subtests of the test as well as their grade point average. Sequential multiple regressions and factor analysis were used in the analysis of the data. Results ackn...

Association of Postural Instability With Asymptomatic Cerebrovascular Damage and Cognitive Decline: The Japan Shimanami Health Promoting Program Study Yasuharu Tabara, PhD; Yoko Okada, MD, PhD; Maya Ohara, MD; Eri Uetani, MD, PhD; Tomoko Kido, MD, PhD; Namiko Ochi, MD, PhD; Tokihisa Nagai, MD, PhD; Michiya Igase, MD, PhD; Tetsuro Miki, MD, PhD; Fumihiko Matsuda, PhD; Katsuhiko Kohara, MD, PhD ....

Many resources are invested in research training, but very little literature exists on predictors for a successful PhD and postdoctoral training outcome. A PhD program has two overall objectives: to extend knowledge about a hopefully important health topic and to provide extensive training to improve the PhD student's skills through learning research methods and collaboration. A substantial num...

conclusions because 66% of students were anti-hav antibody negative and they will work as health care workers in future, our study suggest vaccinating all students accepted at aja university of medical sciences. results of total 270 students, 30 were female. their age ranged between 18 and 30 years old with the mean age of 20.58 years and just 34% of students had positive level of anti-hav anti...