Introduction: Medical uses of radiation have grown very rapidly over in the past two decades, medical uses represent the largest source of exposure to people, The most important methods in medical diagnosis are the useses of diagnostic radiology exams. Although the use of these methods is very beneficial for the treatment of patients, but ionizing radiation produces ion pairs, ...

Background: English language writing is important in university entrance examinations in Japan and influences what learners and teachers do in English classes. This is especially noticeable in secondary education in Japan. While much research on university entrance examinations in Japan has been conducted, little attention has been paid to the types of writing required in these examinations. Me...

introduction. the basic science exam is conducted, two times each year and, success in this exams is an essential condition for medical students to continue their education in medicine. this descriptive research was designed to study the relationship between some variables, including age, sex, place of stay, conditional history and results of basic science exams. methods. this study was impleme...

Few tests were delivered using mobile phones a few years ago, but the flexibility and capability of these devices make them valuable tools even for high stakes testing. This paper addresses research done through the PAULEX (2007-2010) and OPENPAU (2012-2014) research projects at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and Universidad de Alcalá (Spain) to provide a powerful but low cost delivery...

We live surrounded by hoaxes, so it is necessary for schooling to make us scientifically literate in order be able informed decisions about socio-scientific issues such as the use of pseudo-therapies treat cancer. It therefore important know how assess what has been learned at all stages education, including Baccalaureate. Given that there are hardly any studies consider learning acquired Biolo...

Many students who enrol in the undergraduate program on informatics at the Hellenic Open University (HOU) fail the introductory course exams and drop out. We analyze their academic performance, derive short rules that explain success or failure in the exams and use the accuracy of these rules to reflect on specific tutoring practices that could enhance success.

We describe one type of scheduling problem, that of scheduling final exams at Memorial University (MUN), a comprehensive Canadian university. It is well-known that the general scheduling problem is NP-complete [1]. Over the years, this problem has attracted a lot of attention and many different approaches have been tried in finding approximate solutions [2]. Here we propose an approximate solut...