introduction: early clinical exposure has been conceptualized to orient medical students towards actual clinical scenario and help them correlate their theoretical knowledge with real life situations in early years of mbbs courses. in the present study we explored the outcome of early clinical exposure in the context of basic science topics (physiology) in fresh mbbs entrants and compared their...

A new technique for remote sensing of aerosol over the land and for atmospheric correction of Earth imagery is developed. It is based on detection of dark surface targets in the blue and red channels, as in previous methods, but uses the 2.1m channel, instead of the 3.75 m for their detection. A 2.1m channel is present on ADEOS OCTS and GLI, and planned on EOS-MODIS and EOSP, and a similar 2.2m...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Saminathan Ponnusamy, Tri Quach, Antti Rasila Name of the publication Harmonic shears of slit and polygonal mappings Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis Series Aalto University publication series SCIENCE + TECHNOLOGY 3/2012 Field of research Harmonic Shears of Slit and Polygonal Mapp...

In addition to socio-economic factors, a whole spectrum of motivations for joining Islamic Fundamentalist groups has been documented in the literature. Individuals my join extremist groups to achieve specific political objectives such as sovereignty over disputed territory. Emotional incentives may also play an important role. Members of extremist groups often report on the glamour of being mem...

There is now a context for teaching humanities in undergraduate medical education via special study modules (SSMs). This paper discusses the instrumental and non-instrumental role of the humanities in the education of doctors. Three courses are then described and compared. The most successful of the three is a SSM which had the following characteristics: it was voluntary, it was an integral par...

S • 2011 Student Center Ballrooms April 11, 2011 Southern Illinois University Carbondale The Undergraduate Research Forum is part of REACH (Research-Enriched Academic Challenge), a campus-wide program for undergraduates coordinated by the Offi ce of Research Development and Administration at SIUC. For more information, visit www.reach.siuc.edu. "Engaging in research creates new and exciting lea...

This paper is composed of two parts. In the first one, we present an analysis of existing discrete surface segmentation algorithms. We show that two classes of algorithms can actually be defined according to discrete surface and plane definitions. In the second part, we prove the link between the two classes presented. To do so, we propose a new labelling of the surface elements which leads to ...

background the objective structured clinical examination (osce) has been introduced as an efficient method for the assessment of medical students. objectives the aim of the present study was to determine the satisfaction level of undergraduate medical students of internal medicine department with the osce. materials and methods this was a descriptive cross-sectional study, performed on all avai...