Introduction – The Context Nosocomial infections have been a reality since the origin of medicine and have been the object of judicial decisions for a long time. Canadian judges have dealt with potential liability arising from healthcare-related infections since at least the beginning of the twentieth century. However, the increased incidence rates of nosocomial infections in the last few years...

Texts with potential educational value are becoming available through the Internet (e.g., Wikipedia, news services). However, using these new texts in classrooms introduces many challenges, one of which is that they usually lack practice exercises and assessments. Here, we address part of this challenge by automating the creation of a specific type of assessment item. Specifically, we focus on ...

The Web empowers a diverse population of users and this is reflected in both the demography and interests of today’s on-line communities. Many of these communities provide an essential social function by enabling people with medical or personal problems to discuss their concerns with others. Physicians can provide the facts, but other patients can tell you what it really feels like and what to ...

We propose a system for the derivation of algorithms which allows us to use "factual knowledge" for the development of concurrent programs. From pre. liminary program versions the system can derive new versions which have higher performances and can be evaluated by communicating agents in a parallel architecture. The knowledge about the facts or properties of the programs is also used for the i...