Students of the second professional MBBS course of the Indian medical curriculum (II MBBS) perceive pharmacology as a 'Volatile Subject' because they often find it difficult to remember and recall drug names. We evaluated the usefulness of crossword puzzles as a self-learning tool to help pharmacology students to remember drug names. We also measured the students' satisfaction with this learnin...

This paper presents the design of a puzzle game for the Android platform also shows a study on puzzle solving strategies across different interaction modalities and showcases a player performance analysis in each identified strategy. Solving puzzles is among the oldest challenges and entertainment activities available to us. However, despite major technological advances, the design of such game...

We investigate some algorithmic and mathematical aspects of Yin-Yang/Shiromaru-Kuromaru puzzles. Specifically, we discuss two algorithms for solving arbitrary Yin-Yang puzzles, namely the exhaustive search approach prune-and-search technique. show that both have an identical asymptotic running time O(max{mn, 2^(mn−h)}) finding all solutions a instance with h hints size m x n. Nevertheless, our ...

In recent years, the Douglas-Rachford splitting method has been shown to be effective at solving many non-convex optimization problems. this paper we present a local convergence analysis for feasibility problems and show that both finite termination linear are obtained. For generalization of Sudoku puzzle, prove rate is exactly $\frac{\sqrt{5}}{5}$ independent puzzle size. $s$-queens problem co...

Cryptographic puzzles are moderately difficult problems that can be solved by investing non-trivial amounts of computation and/or storage. Devising models for cryptographic puzzles has only recently started to receive attention from the cryptographic community as a first step towards rigorous models and proofs of security of applications that employ them (e.g. Denial-of-service (DoS) resistance...

We are studying the well known problem of the sliding puzzle or Npuzzle and we are modeling a number of consecutive extensions and their solution based on the known algorithmic solution. The usual approach to date has been to find optimal solutions (move sequences) to the N-puzzle with the aid of sophisticated special-purpose search methods. Our goal is to study it from a bottom up perspective ...

We attacked the problem of solving crossword puzzles by computer: Given a set of clues and a crossword grid, try to maximize the number of words correctly filled in. PaOVEaB, the probabilistic cruciverbalist, separates the problem into two, more familiar subproblems: candidate generation and grid filling. In candidate generation, each clue is treated as a type of query to an information retriev...

background: today’s nursing graduates value ability to creatively solve problems and make decisions, as these skills assist hem with recognizing and evaluating situations that require prompt attention. this study aimed to determine and compare nursing student’s perceived levels of own problem solving skills in various years of their 4-year program. methods: this is a cross-sectional study. all ...

over the past decade, there have been several studies showing autobiographical memory retrieval and problem‑solving deficits in depressed population. the present study aimed to first to examine the roles of autobiographical memory specificity and problemsolving effectiveness in iranian depressed people with or without suicide ideation and secondly, to test the correlations between autobiographi...