The functions and possibilities afforded by blogging have been suggested to be relevant to learning and information management. Its increasing use in the business and education sectors is documented, but currently its use in professional education or internship is limited. The social nature of blogging appears to support the applicability of blogs to facilitate learning and communication betwee...

This study focuses on the design of several social agents that are intended to collect the self-reflections of learners while learners are immersed in simulation activities for knowledge building. The design of the agents follows 5W principles and seeks to encourage learners to expend mental effort upon multi-faceted learning and self-reflection. Using semantic networks, we developed dialogue l...

AIM The purpose of this qualitative study was to test a teaching-learning strategy to help nursing students decrease stress and anxiety that may be brought about by the psychiatric mental health clinical experience. BACKGROUND Undergraduate nursing students are known to experience affective stress prior to their first psychiatric mental health clinical practicum. A stressful learning environm...

We propose a novel, self-validating approach for detecting curved reflection symmetry patterns from real, unsegmented images. Our method benefits from the observation that any curved symmetry pattern can be approximated by a sequence of piecewise rigid reflection patterns. Pairs of symmetric feature points are first detected (including both inliers and outliers) and treated as ‘particles’. Mult...

Autonomous agents operate in complex and dynamic environments. Therefore, an intelligent agent must be able to learn new capabilities throughout its lifetime or it risks becoming obsolete and useless. Ideally an intelligent agent would be capable of both retrospective and proactive self-adaptation. Retrospective adaptation occurs when an agent fails in its assigned task, and proactive adaptatio...

BACKGROUND Functional neuroimaging studies have suggested activation of midline frontoparietal brain regions to be at the core of self-related processes. However, although some studies reported involvement of the insula, little attention has been paid to this region as forming part of the "self"-network. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we aim...

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we investigated neural activity associated with self-reflection in depressed [current major depressive episode (MDE)] and healthy control participants, focusing on medial cortex areas previously shown to be associated with self-reflection. Both the MDE and healthy control groups showed greater activity in anterior medial cortex (medial frontal gyrus,...

In the course of ubiquitous and pervasive computing a variety of smart devices are developed and entering our everyday life. These devices increasingly rely on novel interaction modalities from the field of Natural Interaction, such as gesture control. Common concepts to explain and illustrate devices’ interaction possibilities can’t be applied to these interaction techniques due to embedding o...

C o n si st en t * lete * W ll D o c u m e n t e d * E a s y t o R e u s e * * E v a l u a t e d * E C O O P * Ar tifact * A E C Reflection has always been an obstacle both for sound and for effective under-approximate pointer analysis for Java applications. In pointer analysis tools, reflection is either ignored or handled partially, resulting in missed, important behaviors. In this paper, we ...