MOTIVATION: Detection of prostate cancer during transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy is challenging. The highly heterogeneous appearance cancer, presence ultrasound artefacts, and noise all contribute to these difficulties. Recent advancements in high-frequency imaging - micro-ultrasound have drastically increased the capability tissue at high resolution. Our aim investigate development a robus...

BACKGROUND Male volunteers entered an immersive virtual reality that depicted a party, where they were approached by a lone virtual woman who initiated a conversation. The goal was to study how socially anxious and socially confident men would react to this event. Interest focused on whether the socially anxious participants would exhibit sustained anxiety during the conversation or whether thi...

The General Dental Council expects graduating dentists to be competent at treating pulpal disease. Previous studies have found dental undergraduates to have low levels of confidence with respect to endodontic treatments. The aim of this study was to investigate the confidence of undergraduate dental students at the University of Bristol when performing root canal treatment, and to investigate t...

We have been developing a Web application that will help both teachers and learners notice the crucial aspects of solving word-reordering problems. Evaluation systems most computers employ deal with only results of the answers reached by learners without looking into the process by which the answers are produced. It will be insufficient to ascertain learners’ understanding level because correct...

MOTIVATION Adding more distant homologs to a multiple alignment and thus increasing its diversity may eventually deteriorate the numerical profile constructed from this alignment. Here, we addressed the question whether such a diversity limit can be reached in the alignments of confident homologs found by PSI-BLAST, and we analyzed the dependence of the quality of the profile-profile comparison...