Sketching is a powerful means of working out and communicating ideas. Sketch understanding involves a combination of visual, spatial, and conceptual knowledge and reasoning, which makes it both challenging to model and potentially illuminating for cognitive science. This paper describes CogSketch, an ongoing effort of the NSF-funded Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center, which is being devel...

www.palgrave-journals.com/ijea Abstract Using data from the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study and the Panel Study on Income Dynamics, we analyzed whether husbands or wives were more likely to determine whether and how much money to donate to educational institutions. Among donor households, we are able to examine what socio-economic-demographic factors explain differences in whether men or wom...

Modelling the direct effect of aerosols in the solar near-infrared on a planetary scale N. Hatzianastassiou, C. Matsoukas, A. Fotiadi, E. Drakakis, P. W. Stackhouse Jr., P. Koepke, K. G. Pavlakis, D. Hatzidimitriou, and I. Vardavas Laboratory of Meteorology, Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Heraklion, Crete, Gre...

background: with regard to accelerated progresses in the world of science and technology, as well as changes in the needs of the society, medical education should be a developing process. one of the main factors that can promote education from a static to a dynamic and effective state is evaluation. purpose: the purpose of the present survey is to determine the rate of success of medical studen...

introduction: since educational empowerment of the faculty members of universities of medical sciences depends on our understanding of their educational needs. the present study aimed to investigate the educational needs of the faculty members of kermanshah university of medical sciences in 2011 in order to plan the appropriate training workshops. methods: in this descriptive study, the poll wa...

detection of probable harmful consequences arised from the usage of pharmaceutical products requires decisive, continuous and close monitoring by medical staff whom should have knowledge of adverse drug reactions and they should also have to report any suspected instances, when any kind of adverse drug reactions have been observed. this study has been carried out on the knowledge, attitude and ...