At all levels of teaching mathematics it is necessary to implement as many as possible examples of idealised real problems which require the application of mathematical knowledge and development of mathematical models. The course probability and statistics, taught at the faculties of technology in Croatia, should therefore include examples which are connected with technologies studied at respec...

According to the thought experiment most commonly used to argue against reliabilism, Mr. Truetemp is given an unusual but reliable cognitive faculty. Since he is unaware of the existence of this faculty, its deliverances strike him as rather odd. Many think that Truetemp would not have justified beliefs. Since he satisfies the reliabilist conditions for justified belief, reliabilism appears to ...

BACKGROUND Since June 2002, revised regulations in Germany have required "Emergency Medical Care" as an interdisciplinary subject, and state that emergency treatment should be of increasing importance within the curriculum. A survey of the current status of undergraduate medical education in emergency medical care establishes the basis for further committee work. METHODS Using a standardized ...

BACKGROUND We examined perceived health status and physical and psychological well-being of 3,271 undergraduate students attending eleven faculties in a university in Egypt. METHODS During 2009-2010, participants completed a self-administered questionnaire that gathered socio-demographic, physical and psychological health data. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated from students' measured heig...

This study aims to research the depression levels of university students in terms some psychiatric and socio-demographic features Turkey. The group includes a total 504 who recently at various faculties Anadolu University. data was collected through "Personal Information Form" "Beck Depression Inventory" (BDI). At end study, mean Beck Inventory score is 13.6. As result this 41.5% has minimal le...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the interobserver variability and performance in the interpretation of ultrasonographic (US) findings of thyroid nodules. MATERIALS AND METHODS 72 malignant nodules and 61 benign nodules were enrolled as part of this study. Five faculty radiologists and four residents independently performed a retrospective analysis of the US images. The observers received one training s...