Aim: the aim oh this study was to detrmine the effects of different training programs implemented before inguinal hernia operation on the preand post-operation anxiety level of and pain level the patient. Material and Method: this quasi experimental study was carried out with inguinal hernia patients 18 60 years who were hospitalized in the General Surgery Clinic of Hospital of Atatürk Universi...

OBJECTIVES Since few studies on surgical training and learning curves have been performed, majority of inexperienced surgeons are anxious about performing operations. We aimed to access the results and learning curve of septoplasty with radiofrequency volume reduction (RFVR) of the inferior turbinate. METHODS We included 270 patients who underwent septoplasty with RFVR of the inferior turbina...

The implementation of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) guidelines for the Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom contingency operations has dramatically reduced preventable combat deaths. A study of these principles and their application to medical treatment in the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosives (CBRNE), weapons of mass destruction (WM...

background: endometriosis is a complex disease with a spectrum of pain symptoms from mild dysmenorrhea to debilitating pelvic pain. there is no concrete evidence in the literature whether endometriotic cyst per se, causes pain spectrum related to the disease. the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of surgical removal of endometriomas on pain symptoms. materials and methods: in ...

This paper describes Maryland Virtual Patient (MVP), a simulation and tutoring environment developed to support training cognitive decision making in clinical medicine. MVP is implemented as a society of agents, with one role – that of the trainee – played by a human and other roles played by artificial intelligent agents. In order to make the trainee’s experience as similar as possible to the ...

Balancing covariates across treatment levels provides an effective and increasingly popular strategy for conducting causal inference in observational studies. Matching procedures, as a means of achieving balance, pre-process the data through identifying a subset of control observations with similar background characteristics to the treated observations. Inference in a matched sample is unbiased...

The required core competencies of outstanding information technology outsourcing (ITO) engineers were analysed and the results outlined in this article. Several shortcomings are discussed that exist in the outstanding ITO engineers’ training in traditional software-related specialties at undergraduate universities. An overall plan has been proposed to train outstanding ITO engineers through uni...

Ongoing research has demonstrated the potential benefits of thermal-aware load placement in data centers to both reduce cooling costs and component failure rates. However, thermal-aware load placement techniques do not witness a wide deployment in existing data centers, mainly because they rely on a thermal map or profile of the data center, the derivation of which is an interruptive process to...

Operation ARA is a serious game that teaches scientific inquiry using natural language conversations. Within the context of the game, students completed up to two distinct training modules that teach either didactic or applied conceptual information about research methodology (e.g., validity of dependent variables, need for control groups). An experiment using a 4-condition between-subjects pre...

In this paper, a hidden Markov model (HMM) based distributed text-to-speech (TTS) system is proposed to synthesize the voices of various speakers in a client-server framework. The proposed system is based on speaker-adaptive training for constructing HMMs corresponding to a target speaker, and its computational complexity is balanced by distributing the processing modules of the TTS system at b...