introduction: the main objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of preceding pictorial stimulus on the emotional autonomic responses of the subsequent one. methods: to this effect, physiological signals, including electrocardiogram (ecg), pulse rate (pr), and galvanic skin response (gsr) were collected. as these signals have random and chaotic nature, nonlinear dynamics of t...

Introduction / objectives Recently, the WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge team launched its newest tool, the Hand Hygiene SelfAssessment Framework, a validated tool to assess hand hygiene promotion and practices in health-care facilities (http://www.who.int/gpsc/country_work/hhsa_framework/ en/index.html). Aim of the present study is to access the hand hygiene status-quo of Dutch hospit...

Prototype web based resources have been developed for an undergraduate course in Numerical Methods. The web modules are holistic, that is they include pre-requisite information, real-life applications, presentations and notes, simulations, and selfassessment. The student interest and learning are maximized by providing customization of content based on a student’s engineering major and computat...

To determine the reliability of the nursing informatics selfassessment tool which was developed and extended from Kaminski’s assessment tool among health care students. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant difference in participant responses for a test/retest survey completed by nursing students.

Self-assessments are often prone to error. Past research has identified cognitive and motivational biases that lead self-assessments astray. In the present paper, we discuss how behavior shaped by social norms leaves the negative information that people require for accurate self-assessments invisible. First, social norms lead people to suppress critical feedback in favor of more positive evalua...

We investigated whether students increased their self-assessment accuracy and essay scores over the course of an intervention with a writing strategy intelligent tutoring system, W-Pal. Results indicate that students were able to learn from W-Pal, and that the combination of strategy instruction, game-based practice, and holistic essay-based practice led to equivalent gains in selfassessment ac...

All service providers andprograms that are listed on this online portal have completed a rigorous selfassessment process and are then externally assessed by Quality Innovation Performance according to a quality framework before attaining registration. The criteria for assessment stipulates that programs must be evidence based and have evaluation integrated into program design. Programs and serv...

The article presents a theoretical analysis and the results of an empirical study problem relationship between self-attitude locus control in students higher education. education showed that, general, they have positive attitude towards themselves, accept themselves as are, but their self-interest, self-management, self-understanding, autosympathy turned out to be insufficiently developed. Whic...

The main purpose of the present study is to assess a hospital's Performance assessment with regard to EFQM model and then determining the relationship between nine criteria and Organizational model of excellence with hospital's Performance. The research method was Survey –Correlation and the selected sample included all managers and 203 employees were selected. To collect data a standard questi...