OBJECTIVE To describe and evaluate priority setting in the context of hospital priority setting and more specifically to evaluate the use of an appeals process. DESIGN Qualitative case study and evaluation using the ethical framework 'accountability for reasonableness'. SETTING The University Health Network (UHN), a network of three large urban teaching hospitals affiliated with the Univers...

The Internet represents a wonderful opportunity to modify the teaching methods, and to redefine our notions of education. The aim of this paper is to present our teaching project, named Web Learning Environment (WLE), which studies the use of the “Net ” and its resources to develop a learning environment. We have involved a classroom (sixteen students, aged 16-17) of a technical institute in It...

Vocational degree earners represent a major portion of the work force in Taiwan. However, the reality of computing education in Taiwan’s vocational schools is that it’s not so practically oriented, revealing much room for improvement. In this context, we conducted a quasi-experiment to examine the effects of applying web-based self-regulated learning, web-based problem-based learning with initi...

This paper provides a brief overview of an implicit training method used for teaching autonomous agents to represent humans in 3D Virtual Worlds without any explicit training efforts being required.

This is a retrospective quality assurance study of all frozen sections done at The Aga Khan University Hospital during a six year period (1986 to 1991). There were 1,031 frozen sections out of a cumulative total of 42,985 surgical specimens (2.39%). Nine hundred and severity-six (94.66%) were concordant. In 92 (8.9%) fresh specimens were brought from other hospitals of Karachi, in 37 cases (3.5...

This article focuses on the theoretical research and practical teaching in training and improving students’ ability of practical writing in higher vocational colleges through analyzing present curricular status of writing courses. It clarifies the idea of teaching reformation and finds out a series of teaching methods possessing practical significance. It also makes a reference to the teaching ...

There is a growing need for research examining the e!ective implementation and management of teleworking as it is increasingly being used as an organizational work structure. The enhanced functionality of many information technologies facilitates the completion of work across geographically dispersed teleworkers while simultaneously providing a vehicle to overcome social isolation that has been...

The class qusi-experiment was conducted to determine whether using scaffolding teaching strategy enhanced student understanding of statistics concepts for students enrolled in an introductory course. In this two-year longitudinal study, students received scaffolding intervention in experimental group and traditional teaching method in control group. In particular, learning effectiveness differe...

One of the ways of promoting students’ interest in physics is the performance of experiments. This paper is concerned to experiments which could be used in physics classes taught at basic education. A questionnaire was created to determine to what extent basic school physics teachers are willing to incorporate experiments into their teaching method repertoire. The questionnaire underwent a pilo...

Much research in education has been done on the study of different language teaching methods. However, there has been little investigation using computational analysis to compare such methods in terms of readability or complexity progression. In this paper, we make use of existing readability scoring techniques and our own classifiers to analyze the textbooks used in two very different teaching...