Does simulation help improve results for esophagectomy?

Does Gaming Help Improve Cognitive Skills?

A nationally representative study of video game play among adolescents in the United States showed that 97% of adolescents aged 12 to 17 years play computer, web, and portable (or console) video games (Lenhart et al., 2008). We hypothesized that if people play games as a regular exercise regime, gaming will correlate with an improvement in their cognitive skills. For this experiment, a few game...

Patient safety organizations can help providers improve performance and results.

The Help Tutor: Does Metacognitive Feedback Improve Students' Help-Seeking Actions, Skills and Learning?

Students often use available help facilities in an unproductive fashion. To improve students’ help-seeking behavior we built the Help Tutor – a domain-independent agent that can be added as an adjunct to Cognitive Tutors. Rather than making help-seeking decisions for the students, the Help Tutor teaches better help-seeking skills by tracing students actions on a (meta)cognitive help-seeking mod...

[Initial results of robotic esophagectomy for esophageal cancer].

INTRODUCTION There is scant experience with robot-assisted esophagectomy in cases of esophageal and gastro-esophageal junction cancer. Our aim is to report our current experience. PATIENTS AND METHODS Observational cohort study of the first 32 patients who underwent minimally invasive esophagectomy for esophageal cancer from September 2011 to June 2014. The gastric tube was created laparoscop...

Does Category A Anchor Text Improve Category B Results?

Associating anchor text with pages, to which links are pointing, is a well-known approach to improve retrieval quality. It was used in the first version of Google [Brin and Page 1998]. On one hand, using the anchor text alone allows one to obtain a system with decent performance [Anh and Moffat 2010; Hiemstra and Hauff 2010]. We also know that the anchor text is a strong relevance signal from o...