The utility of point of care ultrasound training during medical school is becoming more and more evident. At the Loma Linda University School of Medicine, we have formally integrated ultrasound education into the curriculum of all four years. Exposure begins in the first few months of Year 1 and takes form in a variety of educational mediums through Year 4. Whether students receive training thr...

ECVAM's activities in the field of biologicals have contributed in many ways to the successful incorporation of Three Rs methods, as summarised elsewhere in these proceedings. The progress achieved is impressive, but large numbers of animals are still needed in order to meet the requirements stipulated by various regulations. ECVAM's activities in this area should therefore be continued and ext...

Today, in the digital age, we are committed to prepare the future nurse for the information technology-rich workplace, and to help them reducing the “shock reality” upon arriving at the clinical setting. The main aim of the study is to promote the knowledge of Information Competencies Technology among nurses’ educators and student. The method was an action research process that started by colle...

For engineering degree programs, one of the primary objectives is to teach engineering practice in a course-by-course academic structure. Although engineering programs typically have a yearlong senior level design project to provide engineering development experience, it is still a challenge to provide students with the full life-cycle experience and expose them to all of the various dimensions...

tem for habitat mapping of coral reefs and seagrass beds by integrating satellite images and acousticand ecological sea-truth information. In the field of harmful algal blooms (HAB), our taxonomic and biological knowledge on the HAB species has been much expanded through the program, as exemplified by the identification of the causative species of paralytic (PSPs)and amnesic (ASPs) shellfish po...

For more than a decade now robotics in education has gained a lot of attention from teachers, researchers, politicians, authorities and other stake holders. During the years a great number of methodologies, courses, projects, initiatives and competitions had been developed. With the present position paper the authors who have been active in different educational robotics initiatives for several...

The landscape in research ethics has changed significantly in Latin America and the Caribbean over the past two decades. Research ethics has gone from being a largely foreign concept and unfamiliar practice to an integral and growing feature of regional health research systems. Four bioethics training programs have been funded by the Fogarty International Center (FIC) in this region in the past...

file:///N|/Voss/Courses/Spatial%20Statistics/Books%20and%20Articles/Anselin%20L.%201999.htm (1 of 25)6/9/2006 2:36:06 PM The Future of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences This paper presents a personal view on some emerging research directions at the interface of social science and spatial analysis. Particular emphasis is placed on methodological challenges presented by developments in soci...

The Kutch Earthquake of January 26, 2001 in Gujarat, India, caused the destruction of a large number of modern 4 to 10-storied buildings. After this earthquake, doubts arose about our professional practices, building by-laws, construction materials, building codes and education for civil engineers and architects. It led to large number of short-term courses and workshops, revision of the seismi...

The University of Osnabrück is proud of hosting the KI conference for the first time. The University’s teaching and research profile is shaped by a number of interdisciplinary institutes and study courses, of which Cognitive Science is prominent since quite some time. AI research and education is also visibly present in its young Informatics institute. The KI 2007 technical program comprises si...