An OMR system objective is to transcribe an image of a music score into a machine readable format. A music grammar can be used in order to model the structural knowledge of music scores. Music scores can have a high density of symbols and the different preprocessing step can lead to wrongly segmented components. However, we don’t want to tell the grammar how a music symbol should be segmented. ...

BACKGROUND This study evaluates the impact of a new 'Preparation for Internship' (PRINT) course, which was developed to facilitate the transition of University of New South Wales (UNSW) medical graduates from Medical School to Internship. METHODS During a period of major curricular reform, the 2007 (old program) and 2009 (new program) cohorts of UNSW final year students completed the Clinical...

I present in this paper a method to discover the set of webpages contained in a logical website, based on the link structure of the Web graph. Such a method is useful to identify the boundaries of what to crawl, in the context of Web archiving. For this purpose, I combine the use of an online version of the preflow-push algorithm, an algorithm for the maximum flow problem in traffic networks, a...

introduction. the ability for practical skills is an important target for medical education. these skills are necessary for diagnosis of diseases and therapeutic procedures. this study is designed for evaluation of clinical skills. methods. 92 medical student were selected randomly and data was collected by questionnaires. results. 71.7% of stagers and 21.4% of internship students didn’t have n...

results overall hav seropositivity in nursing students (mean age 24, range 17 - 45 years) was 3%. compliance to preventive measures was not uniform (6% - 76%) and extremely low in some specific measures targeted to decrease the oral-fecal transmission. conclusions the high proportion of susceptible nursing students can contribute to an increase in the risk of nosocomial transmission, especially...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the perception of primary health care medical staff (PHCMS) have on their functions in occupational risk prevention (ORP), as well as their knowledge and skills on the subject of occupational health (OH). DESIGN Descriptive cross-sectional study. SETTING Health Department 20 of Alicante province, Spain. PARTICIPANTS All PHCMS (N=104), with a participation of 80% (N=...

Where did you perform your internship/residency and what field of specialization did you choose? I completed my internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. This was one of the formative experiences of my medical career, and was where I truly learned to become a physician. I was fortunate to have been trained by wonderfully gifted and talented...

because of on-call responsibilities, many medical residents are subjected to chronic partial sleep deprivation, a form of sleep restriction whereby individuals have chronic patterns of insufficient sleep. it is unclear whether deterioration in cognitive processing skills due to chronic partial sleep deprivation among medical residents would influence educational exposure or patient safety.twent...

The evolution of postgraduate medical education has been a most interesting one. If one remembers that before 1900 it was quite possible for a person of average intelligence with a diligent attitude toward his work to encompass rather completely the known field of medicine and that since then increasing specialization has been necessary because of the rapidly broadening horizon of medicine, man...