OBJECTIVE To identify an effective medium for communicating with adolescents in a large-scale, cost-effective violence prevention program. METHODS A set of youth violence prevention programs was established at The Stamford Hospital, a level II trauma center. The traveling version of the program was presented to middle school students in four parts: 1) a rap music video created by our violence...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Despite the transition to competency-based education in surgery, few standardized assessment tools exist in otolaryngology training. In particular, myringotomy and tympanostomy tube insertion (M+T) is a common surgical procedure with few validated assessment tools available. Our objectives were to develop an objective structured assessment of operative skills in M+T and to...

In January 2014, the new ITU-T P.913 recommendation for measuring subjective video, audio and multimedia quality in any environment has been published. This document does not contain any time-continuous subjective method. However, environmental parameter values are changing continuously in a majority of outdoor and also most indoor environments. To be aware of their impact on the perceived qual...

Languages differ in how they categorize spatial relations: While German differentiates between containment (in) and support (auf) with distinct spatial words-(a) den Kuli IN die Kappe stecken ("put pen in cap"); (b) die Kappe AUF den Kuli stecken ("put cap on pen")-Korean uses a single spatial word (kkita) collapsing (a) and (b) into one semantic category, particularly when the spatial enclosur...

OBJECTIVE Fundamental skills testing is now required for certification in general surgery. No model for assessing fundamental endovascular skills exists. Our objective was to develop a model that tests the fundamental endovascular skills and differentiates competent from noncompetent performance. METHODS The Fundamentals of Endovascular Surgery model was developed in silicon and virtual-reali...

Consider a system for tracking the videotapes in a video rental store’s inventory. The system will obviously require a class called "Videotape." Each instance of Videotape will represent one of the videotapes in the store’s inventory. However, since many of the videotapes are very similar, the Videotape instances will contain a lot of redundant information. For example, all copies of Star Wars ...

Netflix, an online video rental company, recently announced a contest to spur interest in building better recommendation systems. Users of Netflix are able to rank movies on an integer scale from 1 to 5. A rating of 1 indicates that the user “hated it”, while 5 indicates they “loved it”. The objective of a recommendation system, or collaborative filter, is to provide users with new recommendati...

We present a probabilistic model applied to the fMRI video rating prediction task of the Pittsburgh Brain Activity Interpretation Competition. Using a Dynamic Gaussian Markov Random Field, we model the relationship between the subjects’ fMRI voxel measurements and the rated properties of the videos, such as presence of language or subject amusement. Also included in our model are dependencies o...

INTRODUCTION Reduced work hours and concerns over patient safety have encouraged surgical educators to find methods to advance resident skills more efficiently. Simulation provides the opportunity to improve technical surgical skills outside the operating room. We hypothesized that practice on surgical task simulators would improve residents' technical performance of vascular anastomotic techni...