BACKGROUND Evidence suggests that continuing medical education improves the clinical competence of general practitioners and the quality of health care services. Thus, we evaluated the relative impact of two educational strategies, critical reading (CR) and problem based learning (PBL), on the clinical competence of general practitioners in a healthcare system characterized by excessive workloa...

Meta-Analysis of the Findings on the Effects of Descriptive Evaluation on Learning Outcomes   A. Aali, Ph.D.* R. Mobaarak Ghamsari**   Changing the way that students’ learning is evaluated to what is called descriptive evaluation during the past decade has been the focus of many studies with conflicting results. To clarify the picture and determine the true impact of this t...

Brain activation associated with dimensional shifts of attention was measured in 14 children and 13 adults using 4 T fMRI. Across all participants, dimensional shifting was associated with activity in a distributed frontoparietal network, including superior parietal cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, inferior frontal junction, and the pre-supplementary motor region. There were also age-rel...

Spatial Dynamic Simulation Systems have three main components: the space dimension, the time dimension and the dynamic process. Dynamic processes have been modeled by transition rules, which are subject to constraints and which can avoid or force the occurrence of a transition. In this paper we propose a framework to represent the variability of simulation process based on the temporal constrai...

Interesting structures emerge in scaling analyses of emotions when stimuli are confined to terms that are relatively free of cognitive and behavioral connotations. Study 1 focused on 99 such terms, rated on semantic differential scales. It revealed a bimodal distribution of emotions with regard to pleasantness, further distinctions in terms of activation, and a third dimension representing flig...

This study explored associations between the five-factor personality traits of human subjects and their feelings of rapport when they interacted with a virtual agent or real humans. The agent, the Rapport Agent, responded to real human speakers’ storytelling behavior, using only nonverbal contingent (i.e., timely) feedback. We further investigated how interactants’ personalities were related to...

this paper evaluates and ranks the temporal dimensions, known as fourth dimension of urban design, of a number of places in a city by topsis method. topsis method is technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution. topsis is one of the renowned methods for classical multi-criteria decision-making (mcdm) problems that defines the positive ideal solution and negative ideal solution...

Color conveys important information for birds in tasks such as foraging and mate choice, but in the natural world color signals can vary substantially, so birds may benefit from generalizing responses to perceptually discriminable colors. Studying color generalization is therefore a way to understand how birds take account of suprathreshold stimulus variations in decision making. Former studies...

Recent research has shown that obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) differ remarkably among patients and can be divided into several symptom dimensions. OCS are influenced by genetic components, but it is unknown to what extent these symptom dimensions are heritable. The phenotypic heterogeneity also raises the question to what extent the symptom dimensions are influenced by specific or shared g...

Deeply rooted in the social disorganization theory, this article aims at studying causal impact of local inequality, a main community structural factor, on individuals’ fear crime. Combining multiple datasets and focusing Mexican case, study has several goals. First, we construct an innovative index crime composed three dimensions: emotion, cognition behavior. Second, build measures income educ...