The new Croatian Informatics curriculum, which introduces computational thinking concepts into learning outcomes has been put practice. A assessment model reflecting the of curriculum was created using an evidence-centered design approach. possibility assessing concepts, abstraction, decomposition, and algorithmic thinking, in actual classroom situation examples such is increasingly coming to f...

In this exploratory study with a community sample ( N = 115), we look at the perception of pro-Russia and pro-Ukraine misinformation, mimicking content shared by naive Facebook users, factors related to it among Latvians. Our results support integrative model in misinformation—we found strong evidence myside bias, as misinformation was judged be significantly less accurate than misinformation. ...

BACKGROUND Delirium increases the risk of mortality during an acute hospital admission. Full syndromal delirium (FSD) is associated with greatest risk and subsyndromal delirium (SSD) is associated with intermediate risk, compared to patients with no delirium - suggesting a dose-response relationship. It is not clear how individual diagnostic symptoms of delirium influence the association with m...

Mission statements, one component of an organization’s culture, espouse the "official" and fundamental ideologies of the organization. Organizational culture, a component of organizational memory (OM), influences the members' behavior including the production of both functional and dysfunctional outcomes. This research uses a model from cognitive therapy to examine formal mission statements for...

Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract: Several projects are presented that focus on the intersection of mixed reality learning and embodiment. Here we discuss four games designed to promote health and science education. All the games represent the vanguard of motion capture and skeletal tracki...

The aim of this study was to analyze what professionals from a team within the Family Health Strategy (FHS) understand mental health to be. This descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach was conducted with 16 professionals from a FHS team in the city of Guaiúba, CE, Brazil. Data were collected during January and February 2011 through focal groups in which the dialogues were ...

This paper charts the design and application of a system to support 11–14 year old students’ learning of algebraic generalisation, presenting students with the means to develop their understanding of the meaning of generality, see its power for mathematics and develop algebraic ways of thinking. We focus squarely on design, while taking account of both technical and pedagogical issues and chall...

Purpose Lean thinking has revolutionised the approach to manufacturing and there are indications that it can do the same for New Product Introduction [NPI] processes. This paper explores the question “Is the application of Lean principles to NPI sufficient for best/good practice and has this been proven by the work of the UK Lean Aerospace Initiative [UK LAI]?” Focussing on the eight years of r...

This paper presents a multidimensional approach to examining the urban evidence-policy interface in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and applies this approach to a case study from Pakistan. Key features of urban health policy and the significance of the evidence-policy interface in rapidly changing LMICs are articulated; characteristics of evidence that has been successfully incorporat...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the latent structure of DSM-IV schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) diagnostic criteria. The sample consisted of 564 consecutively admitted inpatients and outpatients. Exploratory latent class analysis identified a four-class model as the best fitting model for DSM-IV SPD criteria. The first of the SPD latent classes was mainly characterized by odd thinkin...