BACKGROUND Clinical learning takes place in complex socio-cultural environments that are workplaces for the staff and learning places for the students. In the clinical context, the students learn by active participation and in interaction with the rest of the community at the workplace. Clinical learning occurs outside the university, therefore is it important for both the university and the st...

BACKGROUND Sinusitis and rhinitis are associated with uncontrolled asthma. There are no simple, validated tools to screen for these diseases. The objective of this study was to assess instruments to assist in the diagnosis of chronic sinonasal disease. METHODS Participants without acute sinonasal symptoms underwent an extensive evaluation. The results were submitted to an expert panel that us...

A laser line-scanning instrument was developed to optimize the near-field enhancement capability of a one-dimensional photonic crystal (PC) for excitation of surface-bound fluorophores. The excitation laser beam is shaped into an 8 μm × 1 mm line that is focused along the direction of the PC grating, while remaining collimated perpendicular to the grating. Such a beam configuration offers high ...

The purpose of this study was to develop a self-reported measure of instructor satisfaction within the context of teaching in the online environment and to validate the instrument’s psychometric properties. Upon conducting an expert panel review and pilot study, the instrument was administered to 168 instructors who taught courses in the online environment at a large, public western university....

Four commercial e-nose instruments (Multisensor Systems,Alpha MOS, iSense, and Nordic Sensors Technologies) and atrained human panel tested cabin odors generated by heat cyclingfour new automobiles. Odor samples were collected at HyundaiMotor Group (HMG) and express-shipped to four universitypartners for analysis by an aggregate of 155 gas sensors. Sensorresponses were c...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify the significant dimensions of the clinical trials nursing role and to construct a reliable and valid survey instrument to reflect these dimensions. DESIGN Methodologic survey. SETTING/SAMPLE The judge panel consisted of six national nurse experts. The focus group sample was comprised of 24 clinical research nurses from the West, Northeast, and Great Lakes regi...

OBJECTIVES develop and validate the content of a tool about nursing care production. METHOD the data were collected between 2011 and 2013, based on focus groups, the application of semistructured questionnaires (prototype test) and the Delphi technique. The focus groups were used to produce the instrument items and held at three hospitals in the interior of the State of São Paulo, involving 2...

A vehicle for a complete engineering and scientists practical formation is presented. It is made possible by the use of virtual instrumentation, not in the sense of a simulation tool, but as the remote access to facilities located in related research laboratories. Internet World Wide Web provides a best way to materialize this remote access, reducing the requirements in the educational laborato...

Objective The aim of this study was to obtain a Brazilian transcultural adaptation of an instrument developed in the United Kingdom for assessing the knowledge and attitudes towards dementia by physicians. Methods The "Knowledge Quiz" (KQ) contains 14 items on epidemiology, diagnosis and management of dementia, while the "Attitude Quiz" contains 10 sentences about physicians' thoughts on the ...

Carcasses (n = 265) selected to differ in USDA yield grade were evaluated by expert graders and assessed for tenderness with the Tendertec Mark III Beef Grading Instrument. Tendertec measurements were collected on longissimus lumborum muscles in both sides of each carcass. During fabrication of each left carcass side, a rib section (later converted into three steaks) was removed for aging and s...