background: internet use has grown largely in recent years in iran. students are one of the major users of the internet. this study evaluated the effects of student internet users’ lifestyle and behaviors. methods: this cross-sectional study used stratified multistage sampling to select 600 students from universities in gorgan (iran) during 2009. data was collected through a valid and reliable ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the improvement of knowledge and skills of trauma management among participant of Primary Trauma Care (PTC) workshop. METHODS A two days Primary Trauma Care (PTC) provider workshop was organized at Dow International Medical College, Karachi - Pakistan on March 5(th) and 6th 2011. Participant's knowledge was assessed by 30 Best Choice Questions (BCQs) and their trauma manag...

INTRODUCTION Knowledge, attitude, and skills of nurses regarding evidence-based medicine are some of the important individual potentials in the implementation of these cares. There is no evidence indicating Iranian nurses to have these individual potentials. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determination the perceptions of nurses about individual potentials in evidence-based nursing and ...

The objectives of this study were 1) to describe the technical requirements of different tracks where classifying points are disputed for the Olympics as the European continent tracks (E), world championship competitions tracks (W), and Olympic Games track - Beijing, 2008- (O); and 2) to compare and establish differences or similarities between the three previous contexts. The sample used for t...

INTRODUCTION Encouraged by the change in licensing regulations the practical professional skills in Germany received a higher priority and are taught in medical schools therefore increasingly. This created the need to standardize the process more and more. On the initiative of the German skills labs the German Medical Association Committee for practical skills was established and developed a co...

INTRODUCTION Children with cochlear implants (CIs) may experience few opportunities for positive musical experiences, and musical perception is therefore often not sufficiently developed. This paper investigates and discusses the relationship between intelligence quotient (IQ) and musical ability in children with CIs compared with children with normal hearing. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a...

SKILL LEARNING BASED CATCHING MOTION CONTROL Gökçen Çimen M.S. in Computer Engineering Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Tolga Kurtuluş Çapın July, 2014 In real world, it is crucial to learn biomechanical strategies that prepare the body in kinematics and kinetics terms during the interception tasks, such as kicking, throwing and catching. Based on this, we presents a real-time physics-based approa...

This study measured skill acquisition in the presence and absence of guiding cues in pigeons. It asked whether the speed of development of autonomy for the motor skill is influenced by the difficulty level of two guiding-cue conditions requiring the same left-right response sequence. The Follow-Red condition required a simple go, no-go discrimination (red=S+, green=S-), whereas the Red-Green co...

BACKGROUND Academic faculty involved in public health teaching and research serve as the link and catalyst for knowledge synthesis and exchange, enabling the flow of information resources, and nurturing relations between 'two distinct communities' - researchers and policymakers - who would not otherwise have the opportunity to interact. Their role and their characteristics are of particular int...