OBJECTIVE Evaluate clinical competence of a mexican resident physicians sample for diagnosis and treatment of Chagas disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS Cross-sectional and analytic study in 122 resident physicians of epidemiology, family medicine and internal medicine specialty, assigned to a third level medical unit from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, taking a sample for convenience. An instrument...

Integrated Product Development is increasingly a challenge of understanding and predicting the complete product lifecycle, and of treating the product as a whole in all phases of development. This paper points out that this trend has significant implications on the competence profiles of engineers, which are nowadays insufficiently taken into account by education and training programs, as well ...

Orofacial pain (OFP) is a group of symptoms affecting a significant portion of the population; inadequate diagnosis and management of these symptoms present a potential detrimental effect on the public's health. It has been suggested that dental schools must prepare their graduates to deal with these problems rather than relying on their participation in continuing education courses after gradu...

Using open e-learning platforms as a tool to support the learning process has become an international tendency. Specially, in order to motivate the achievement of desired competences in a lifelong learning process. In this context, personalization of the e-learning process according to user characteristic is a critical point, in particular, to deliver activities or learning resources adjusted t...

Children's number competencies over 6 time points, from the beginning of kindergarten to the middle of 1st grade, were examined in relation to their mathematics achievement over 5 later time points, from the end of 1st grade to the end of 3rd grade. The relation between early number competence and mathematics achievement was strong and significant throughout the study period. A sequential proce...

Globally, large-scale national initiatives are being implemented towards promoting the level and quality of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) use in school education. However, despite these efforts, the current level of ICT uptake from schools remains low. A wide range of factors have been identified as barriers, including lack of teachers’ ICT Competences and lack of ICT infrast...

This study analyzes the relationship between emotion understanding and school achievement in children of primary school, considering age, gender, fluid intelligence, mother's educational level and social competence. In this study participated 406 children of primary school. The instruments used were the Test of Emotion Comprehension, Colored Progressive Matrices of Raven, Socially Action and In...

We found that the ability to develop genetic competence of a certain relaxed (relA) aspartate-auxotrophic strain of Bacillus subtilis is significantly lower than that of the isogenic stringent (relA+) strain. Transcriptional fusion analysis utilizing a lacZ reporter gene indicated that the amount of the ComK protein, known as the key protein for competence development, is greatly reduced in the...

Natural transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae is regulated by a quorum-sensing system that acts through accumulation and sensing of a peptide pheromone (competence-stimulating peptide [CSP]) to control many competence-specific genes acting in DNA uptake, processing, and integration. The period of competence induced by CSP lasts only 15 min (quarter-height peak width). The recently identifi...