Giving corrective feedback (CF) is an essential part of the teaching and learning process, and the way it should beneficially be done has been the focus of attention for numerous researchers especially when traditional ways of CF provision are not possible, particularly in rare situations such as outbreaks of diseases. This study investigated how different ways of giving feedback; namely, throu...

For routine toxicity testing of composts and growing media, two different types of assays are usually applied. One approach is the use of growing trials in pots with various mixtures of the material. In extract-based tests, seeds are germinated in petri dishes and exposed to an exudate from the material to be tested. In this study, one of these methods, the Phytotoxkit microbiotest, was compare...

Work-related vehicle crashes are a common cause of occupational injury. Yet, there are few studies that investigate management practices used for light vehicle fleets (i.e. vehicles less than 4.5 tonnes). One of the impediments to obtaining and sharing information on effective fleet safety management is the lack of an evidence-based, standardised measurement tool. This article describes the ini...

The acutely deteriorating patient is a challenge to even the most seasoned provider. The ability to diagnosis the underlying condition quickly and accurately is vital to a successful outcome. We present a review of 10 critical aspects in the management of the crashing patient, based on up-to-date guidelines and organized as an easily remembered mnemonic. The A-A-B-B-C-C-D-D-E-E's of the deterio...

In advance of a medical conference on the duty of candour for medical ethics educators, this paper discusses the duty of candour as a significant development in the culture of medicine. Those who teach medical ethics need to assess its implications for their own practice. It is also a duty that needs to be critically examined in light of both patients' interests and clinical work environments i...

In this paper, three alternative implementations of the POWDER W3C Recommendation are presented, compared, and discussed. The main issue with implementing POWDER is that POWDER inference accesses resources’ URIs in order to mass-annotate regular expressiondelineated groupings of URIs.

When it comes to reimbursement for imaging services, Charlie Owens, PACS administrator at the Knoxville-based University of Tennessee Medical Center, sings a refrain that has become an industry norm: it’s going down, down, down. “Rates have really fallen in the last five years,” he sighs. “If you’re in a competitive area, payers put the squeeze on you.” By way of example, he cites reimbursement...

To the young mind everything is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand ... discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.. .. The astronomer discovers that geome try, a pure abstraction of the human mind, is the measure of planetary motion...