We are writing this letter to draw the attention of the faculty members of medical universities to the formation of professional ethics and professionalism in the clinical and theoretical education of nursing and operating room students using the hidden curriculum. Professional values are standards for clinical practice, which are based on the agreement of professional groups and experts. Thes...

The current paper focuses on modeling actions of high school students with a mathematics tutoring system with Hidden Markov Models. The results indicated that including a hidden state estimate of learner engagement increased the accuracy and predictive power of the models, both within and across tutoring sessions. Groups of students with distinct engagement trajectories were identified, and fin...

In this work, we present the results of a study analyzing the reactions of subjects on simulated errors of a dedicated in-car interface for controlling infotainment and communication services. The test persons could operate the system, using different input modalities, such as natural or command speech as well as head and hand gestures, or classical tactile paradigms. In various situational con...

The 1972 Survey of Disabled and Nondisabled Adults found that more than 1 million severely disabled persons aged 20-64 were receiving payments under Federal-State public assistance programs. To determine the reasons why most of these individuals did not qualify for disabled-worker benefits under the social security program, their characteristics were compared with those of the approximately 1.5...

labored under the historic burden of its essential mission being that of carrying out the work of God, a mission for which material reward was deemed unimportant. A second, and lower, minimum wage existed for employed hospital workers, and many institutions were peopled by nuns and others paid far less than the prevailing wage elsewhere. Juxtaposed with this otherworldly view, the hospital was ...

Most neuroscience faculty share the common goal of maximizing student understanding of course material and increasing student excitement for the discipline. There is evidence that educational practices such as service learning, which is characterized by the fact that it both addresses a need in the community and meets key learning objectives in a course, can help accomplish these goals in an im...

This study presents new data from a 1996 national survey of Medicare risk enrollees and disenrollees designed to profile access to care in Medicare health maintenance organizations (HMOs). The findings show that expanded benefits and low (or no) premiums are major features attracting disabled Medicare beneficiaries into Medicare HMOs. We found that most disabled persons enrolled in Medicare HMO...

There are significant barriers preventing many users, often disadvantaged citizens such as people with disabilities and elderly people, from accessing many services and information provided by e-solutions, especially governmental and commercial web sites and public access systems. Tenuta is a project funded by the European Union (EU) that is helping improve the usability and accessibility of es...

One of the benefits of mobile technologies is to combine ‘the digital’ (e.g., data, information, photos) with ‘field’ experiences in novel ways that are contextualized by people’s current located activities. However, often cost, mobility disabilities and time exclude students from engaging in such peripatetic experiences. The Out There and In Here project, is exploring a combination of mobile a...