The skull base is one of the most complex anatomical regions and forms the floor of the cranial cavity. Skull base surgery involves open, microscopic, and endoscopic approaches to the anterior, middle, or posterior cranial fossa. A multispecialty team approach is essential in treating patients with skull base lesions. Traditionally, rhinologists are involved in providing access to anterior skul...

This paper investigates relations between team learning and a quasi-closedness property inherent in many identiication types considered in inductive inference. This property is as follows: there exists such n that, if every union of n ?1 classes out of U1; : : : ; Un is identiiable, so is the union of all n classes. This property can be formulated in terms of team learning, but in practice the ...

Virtual teams enabled by information and communications technologies (ICT) are increasingly being adopted not only by for-profit organizations but also by education institutions as well. This study investigates what contribute to the success of virtual learning teams in a higher-education institution. Specifically, we examine the issue of leadership in virtual learning teams. The study first re...

A few studies have appeared in the literature suggesting that team learning might be an effective means for developing emotional intelligence (EI) abilities in the workplace. This study investigated the effects of attending a one-day emotional intelligence training session followed by participating in team-based learning on ability-based measures of emotional intelligence in a sample of MBA stu...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine medical students' perceptions of team-based learning (TBL) according to their individual characteristics: gender, team efficacy, interpersonal understanding, proactivity in problem solving, and academic ability. METHODS Thirty-eight second-year medical students who took an integrated cardiology course participated in this study; 28 were male an...

Dota 2 is a multiplayer online game in which two teams of five players control “heroes” and compete to earn gold and destroy enemy structures. Teamwork is essential and heroes are chosen to create a balanced team that will counter the opponents’ selections. We studied how the win rate depends on hero selection by performing logistic regression with models that incorporate interactions between h...

In this paper, we describe the approach used by the UPF-taln team for tasks 10 and 11 of SemEval 2015 that respectively focused on “Sentiment Analysis in Twitter” and “Sentiment Analysis of Figurative Language in Twitter”. Our approach achieved satisfactory results in the figurative language analysis task, obtaining the second best result. In task 10, our approach obtained acceptable performanc...