Most second language (SL) educators attempt to deliver good teaching partly by teaching well in the present, and partly by planning for better teaching in the future. Taking steps to improve SL teaching may involve working on the knowledge base for teaching, or it can involve working with the social situation of teaching. In this paper 1 will discuss the process of improving IIe8d\ing from,a so...

AIMS To synthesise published evidence of the impacts of introducing hospital based alternatives to acute paediatric admission. METHODS Systematic review of studies of interventions for children with acute medical problems. Main outcome measures were: admission or discharge, unscheduled returns to hospital, satisfaction of parents and general practitioners, effects on health service activity, ...

This report describes the development of an evidence-based guideline for external hemorrhage control in the prehospital setting. This project included a systematic review of the literature regarding the use of tourniquets and hemostatic agents for management of life-threatening extremity and junctional hemorrhage. Using the GRADE methodology to define the key clinical questions, an expert panel...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of computers and computer-based clinical decision support systems on the management of hypertension. DESIGN Systematic review of randomised controlled trials. SETTING Ambulatory hypertension clinics, community-based health centres, and general practices. PARTICIPANTS 11,962 patients enrolled in seven trials retrieved from a systematic search (electroni...

Title: Exploring the factors affecting the implementation of tobacco and substance use interventions within a secondary school setting: a systematic review Authors: Gillian Waller ([email protected]) Tracy Finch ([email protected]) Emma Giles ([email protected]) Dorothy Newbury-Birch ([email protected]) Version: 1 Date: 01 Jul 2017 Author’s response to reviews: Authors (GW, TF, ...

Different users of a hypermedia application may require different combinations of modes, i.e., different ways of perceiving the content or different ways of interaction. Multimodality—intended as the coexistence of multiple combinations of modes in the same application—can improve application richness and can accommodate the needs of different categories of users. On the other hand, multimodali...

Handoffs involve the transfer of rights, duties, and obligations from one person or team to another. In many high-precision, high-risk contexts such as a relay race or handling air traffic, handoff skills are practiced repetitively to optimize precision and anticipate errors. In medicine, wide variation exists in handoffs of hospitalized patients from one physician or team to another. Effective...

Computer models can be used to investigate the role of emotion in learning. Here we present EARL, our framework for the systematic study of the relation between emotion, adaptation and reinforcement learning (RL). EARL enables the study of, among other things, communicated affect as reinforcement to the robot; the focus of this paper. In humans, emotions are crucial to learning. For example , a...

BACKGROUND Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) remains a major contributor to maternal morbidity even in high resource settings, despite the development and dissemination of evidence-based guidelines and Advance-Trauma-Life-Support (ATLS) based courses for optimal management of PPH. We aimed to assess current influencing factors (obstacles and facilitators) for the delivery of high quality PPH-care fr...

Chemotherapy using the taxanes, docetaxel and cabazitaxel, remains an important therapeutic option in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). However, despite the survival benefits afforded by these agents, the survival increments are modest and resistance occurs universally. Efforts to overcome resistance to docetaxel by combining with biologic agents have heretofore been unsuc...