OBJECTIVES To (1) assess the hydration knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of doctors; (2) develop an evidence-based training package; and (3) evaluate the impact of the training package. DESIGN Educational intervention with impact evaluation. SETTING Cambridgeshire, UK. PARTICIPANTS General practitioners (GPs (primary care physicians)). INTERVENTIONS Hydration and healthcare train...

The libRadtran software package is a suite of tools for radiative transfer calculations in the Earth’s atmosphere. Its main tool is the uvspec program. It may be used to compute radiances, irradiances and actinic fluxes in the solar and terrestrial part of the spectrum. The design of uvspec allows simple problems to be easily solved using defaults and included data, hence making it suitable for...

This paper describes the development and evaluation of a computer-aided learning (CAL) package for a graduate course in artificial neural networks (ANNs). The package has been evaluated over a period of two academic years, both as an educational supplement to a conventional lecture course and as a completely self-sufficient, remotely taught course. The course is accessed via the World Wide Web ...

PURPOSE Little information exists on how patients in medical practice use food package nutrition labels. We theorized that patients in a general medical practice might not make the distinction between serving size and total package nutrition information, and this might lead to obesity. METHODS Ninety patients between ages of 18 and 65 attending the St. Francis/University of Tennessee Family P...

RLPy is an object-oriented reinforcement learning software package with a focus on valuefunction-based methods using linear function approximation and discrete actions. The framework was designed for both educational and research purposes. It provides a rich library of fine-grained, easily exchangeable components for learning agents (e.g., policies or representations of value functions), facili...

We present an educational software package (Cachesim) used as a teaching tool to study and analyse computer with cache memory. Cachesim allows students to execute step-by-step a program, to observe the cache activity needed for a memory operation, to evaluate the system performance by varying the program and/or the cache parameters and, finally, to analyse the program behaviour by the memory re...

This paper proposes a new approach to automatic retrieval and composition of Learning Objects (LOs) in an Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System (AEHS) using multidimensional learner characteristics to enhance learning effectiveness. The approach focuses on adaptive techniques in four components of AEHS: Learning Paths, LO Retrieval, LO Sequencing, and Examination Difficulty Levels. This approa...

In this paper we introduce how competences can be modelled in a learning environment and the first steps to apply them in dotLRN. Therefore, a general description of the two approaches created for modelling competencies on a learning environment context is presented, i.e. the IMS Reusable Definition of Competency or Educational Objectives (IMS-RDCEO) [7] approach generated by the IMS Global Lea...

A comprehensive, but simple-to-use software package for executing a range of standard numerical analysis and operations used in quantitative paleontology has been developed. The program, called PAST (PAleontological STatistics), runs on standard Windows computers and is available free of charge. PAST integrates spreadsheet-type data entry with univariate and multivariate statistics, curve fitti...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of different health warning labels (HWL). MATERIAL AND METHODS Data from the International Tobacco Control Survey (ITC Survey) were analyzed from adult smokers in Brazil, Uruguay and Mexico, each of which used a different HWL strategy (pictures of human suffering and diseased organs; abstract pictorial representations of risk; and text-only messages, respectivel...