BACKGROUND Most universities currently practice traditional practical spot tests to evaluate students. However, traditional methods have several disadvantages. Computer-based examination techniques are becoming more popular among medical educators worldwide. Therefore incorporating the computer interface in practical spot testing is a novel concept that may minimize the shortcomings of traditio...

The sacking of David Nutt from his position as Chair of a UK government science advisory council has thrown the interface between science and policy into sharp relief. Justine Davies takes a look behind the scenes.

Understanding species-habitat relationships is vital to successful conservation, but the tools used to communicate species-habitat relationships are often poorly suited to the information needs of conservation practitioners. Here we present a novel method for translating a statistical species-habitat model, a regression analysis relating ring-necked pheasant abundance to landcover, into an inte...

This research focuses on developing an intelligent, dynamically evolvable help facility which will offer appropriate assistance to the user while he/she is browsing the Internet.

Abstraction reduces the apparent complexity of an implementation by hiding all but \the most relevant" details. However, no interface is suitable for all the users of the implementation for exactly the same reason: each user has a slightly di erent view of what is \most relevant." Thus, although abstractions can reduce complexity, working around their limitations can introduce other complexitie...

We report on the numerical measures on different spin interfaces and Fortuin-Kasteleyn (FK) cluster boundaries in the Askhin-Teller (AT) model. For a general point on the AT critical line, we find that the fractal dimension of a generic spin cluster interface can take one of four different possible values. In particular we found spin interfaces whose fractal dimension is d(f)=3/2 all along the ...

Interacting at a distance: a critical review of the role of ICT in developing the learner–context interface in a university language programme Journal Article How to cite: Hampel, Regine and de los Arcos, Beatriz (2013). Interacting at a distance: a critical review of the role of ICT in developing the learner–context interface in a university language programme. Innovation in Language Learning ...

The emerging interdisciplinary work in language politics and language policy and planning studies demonstrates a rising interest among researchers in the interface between sociolinguistics, political science and philosophy. Much of the resulting cross-disciplinary work, however, tends to focus on the subject matters (politics, language) themselves rather than explore the broader issues that tra...

Ways of working at the interface between primary and specialist care are considered with discussion of the limits of available evidence and the potential for a new role for psychiatrists in providing supervision and consultation in novel models of care.

Elysa Wan