In today’s management approaches, quality improvement focused on a company’s business processes plays an ever more important role. Methodologies like Six Sigma are used to improve quality, cut costs and save time by improving processes. Support and commitment of a company’s employees are crucial success factors, so that training and motivation is essential. Role plays are a training method suit...

“Practice makes perfect” is an age-old idiom few can disagree with. Yet in ophthalmic surgical teaching, practice has not had the emphasis it has in other motor skillebased disciplines. Even a well-stocked wet laboratory likely does not have a large quantity of eyes available for practicing, limiting robustness of skill development that could be achieved by frequent repetition. The commonly use...

Organizational culture is widely recognized as a significant factor influencing organizational success. A simulation was developed for a high-tech client to direct change in their culture. Simulation content was captured in ethnographic interviews with employees and included cultural ideals. Significant employee attitude change was measured. Teaching students about organizational culture is dif...

The imitation of spoken stop consonants by an articulatory synthesizer using only general learning principles addresses significant issues in speech inversion and speech acquisition. Stop consonants are relatively large, complex acoustic events resulting from discrete articulations, so inversion based on the use of small time windows or based on the minimisation of average articulatory error ac...

Based on existing teaching conditions and actual needs, a virtual teaching experiment platform for a signal generator has been developed using LabVIEW. The platform realises a simpler function signal generator and a chaotic signal generator that are easy to operate by using virtual technology, which provides students with some simulation experiments without a physical laboratory. Compared with ...