Most of the elderly have difficulties with computer technology. They lack computer literacy, and at the same time, have physiological changes that are associated with impaired perception, cognition, and other social aspects. These limitations can be lessened using multimedia elements to assist in their interaction with computers. One of these multimedia elements is 3D animation. We have incorpo...

Introduction: The virtual environment has emerged as a new form of contemporary education which adds meaning to the content, encouraging active participation in the learning process. This is an interinstitutional PhD research project of the Postgraduate Nursing Program, Federal University of Ceará and the Federal University of Pernambuco. Aim: To evaluate the effects of an educational intervent...

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES have become important tools for teaching scientific subjects such as anatomy and histology as well as other, nondescriptive subjects like physiology and pharmacology (8–10). Software has been used to facilitate the learning of specific concepts at the cellular and molecular levels in the biological and health sciences (3, 11, 15). Although educational ...

statement of the problem oral health education may play an important role in the prevention of oral complications of diabetes mellitus. different methods have been used to present these educations purpose this study investigated the efficacy of oral health education package to increase knowledge of diabetic patients about oral health in iran. materials and methods in this experimental study, 37...

BACKGROUND Midwives are one of the most important health care providers and meeting their professional educational needs can be effective in maternal and child health promotion. AIM The aim of this study was to investigate the midwives' perspectives towards their educational needs. METHODS In this cross-sectional study which was conducted in 2012 in Sari, North of Iran, 223 midwives during ...

Ordered discrete dependent variable models such as ordered probit and ordered logit are frequently used across the social sciences to study outcomes including health status, happiness, wealth and educational attainment. Unlike in the case of OLS, unaccounted for heteroskedasticity in these models can lead to biased parameter estimates. This paper introduces the oglmx package for the R statistic...

We present an educational resource based in an optical software package for undergraduate students. It consists in a web based textbook with several applets for illustrating the theory and simplify the teaching tasks in the classroom. These programs are also used as a method for self-learning in an on-line environment. Applets are written in Java language using the Java Network Launching Protoc...

Efficient Symbolic Tools (EST) is a software package for formal verification of concurrent systems. It appears as an educational project and has been entirely written in the Laboratory of Microcomputer Systems at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Maribor. The main purpose of our work was a study of algorithms that could serve for formal verification of complex protoc...

This paper presents a novel educational software package which develops an Interactive Didactic Application (IDA) generated in the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), and which contains the essentials of Engineering Graphics according to ISO norms. It is an interactive multimedia application which adapts easily to all engineering studies, according to the needs of each course, and which ...

Article first published online: 23 JUL 2013. This is the accepted version of the following article: Moule, P., Lewis, J. and McCabe, C. (2014) Designing and delivering an educational package to meet the needs of primary care health professionals in the diagnosis and management of those with complex regional pain syndrome. Musculoskeletal Care, 12 (2). pp. 114?117, which has been published in fi...