Discussion forums are often touted as maximising student participation and learning but concerns around engagement counter any perceived benefits. Often is the measure of engagement, students who do not post deemed unengaged. To further examine communities, we used analytic data from 270 enrolled in two online psychology subjects using social network analysis interviewed 22 students. Both subje...

Few Neurologists will be unfamiliar with referral letters stating that the patient has “Rhomberg’s sign” or some “mild rhombergism” (capitalisation variable), a particularly irritating misnomer for pedants among us. As Henry Higgins fictional Professor of Phonetics [1] observed: ‘Does same thing hold true in India, Pickering? Is there peculiar habit not only dropping letter like “h”, but using ...

The probabilistic method was developed by Paul Erdös and his collaborators as a technique for proving the existence of combinatorial objects by introducing an artificial probability distribution over them, and reasoning using the calculus of probability. The name is perhaps a bit of a misnomer in a probability course, but it was devised in a context where previously probability had little use. ...

Ferlito A, Devaney KO, Rinaldo A, et al. Ear cholesteatoma versus cholesterol granuloma. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol 1997;106:79–85 This is an excellent histopathology-based review (no images) that defines and differentiates these two entities. Very interesting information. Authors reiterate that cholesteatoma is a misnomer: it is not a neoplasm (-oma), there are no cholesterol crystals (chole-), ...

Abstract We observe that the errors on Hubble constant $$H_0$$ H 0 , a universal parameter in any FLRW cosmology, can be larger specific cosmological models than Gaussian processes (GP) data reconstruction. comment prior mean function and trace smaller GP to stronger co...

Abstract In continuum mechanics, viscous materials are those that lack rigidity and elastic response under shear stress. We argue using the term to refer aseismic lithosphere is thus a misnomer because it denies propagation of S waves through in total contradiction decades seismic surveys. Similarly, yield stress, which another feature expected most situations within but more difficult assess. ...

Fibromyalgia is a clinical construct that has been developed, for the most part, by rheumatologists. It is a direct descendent of "fibrositis", a common misnomer (1) that was first coined in 1904 (2). There are always problems inherent in defining a disorder in purely descriptive terms. Nevertheless the publication of the American College of Rheumatology's 1990 Classification Criteria for fibro...