Recent research by Institute affiliates on the role of education in economic growth has produced two works which run counter to current thought. One study challenges standard measures of the value of schooling and concludes on the optimistic note that its full value has been underrated. The other study analyzes data on college enrollment over the past decade and concludes, on a pessimistic note...

The purpose of this article is to introduce the reader to the free data analysis software package ROOT. ROOT is superior to, and more flexible than, many other commonly used data analysis tools, including most spreadsheet applications. In this article, simple examples are given to demonstrate how ROOT may used to complement one’s accident reconstruction analyses. To aid the new user, example RO...

Radiologic signs are recognizable, characteristic patterns used to describe abnormalities visualized on imaging modalities that ultimately aid in the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of disease. This pictorial essay discusses 23 classic roentgenographic signs used in thoracic imaging. Its purpose is to be used as an educational review for residents, whether they are beginning their training o...

The first in a new series of short educational programmes covering a range of important topics in medical education. Each programme defines the topic, provides some background information, presents some practical tips, gives some theoretical underpinning where relevant, provides some further reading and suggests an activity which can be carried out independently or with colleagues. The series h...

This paper presents an outline of a classification of metaphor use in text that can aid the interpretation of data obtained from corpora. The classification is exemplified on examples from a developing corpus of both public and academic discourse on educational change. The paper claims that it is necessary to distinguish between metaphor as an organizing principle of the conceptual system and i...

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have been successfully used to transform either partial/total face to face or distance learning education [1]. Educational software systems aid the teaching/learning process, promoting the development of a lot of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), improving the assimilation of the content presented in the class. Using mechanisms such as Hard...

The Cultural Journeys in the Information Society is a dynamic hypermedia environment, which proposes the Electronic Roads as a meta-form for exploring cultural information that can form Cultural Journeys. The Electronic Roads meta-form facilitates travelers to explore the information space in a natural and continuous way similar to the exploration of physical roads. This meta-form is advantageo...

We present a classifier that discriminates between types of corrections made by teachers of English in student essays. We define a set of linguistically motivated feature templates for a log-linear classification model, train this classifier on sentence pairs extracted from the Cambridge Learner Corpus, and achieve 89% accuracy improving upon a 33% baseline. Furthermore, we incorporate our clas...