Didactic meta-programming is an answer to the need of rational introducing hypermedia, as part of information technologies, to didactic processes. A thorough analysis explaining the causes of traditional methods failures in a programmed training is needed to move beyond technological (equipment) school modernization expressed, at most, by well-equipped computer rooms with Internet access and mu...

We investigated whether the rating obtained in the EuroNCAP test procedures correlates with injury protection to vehicle occupants in real crashes using data in the UK Cooperative Crash Injury Study (CCIS) database from 1996 to 2005. Multivariate Poisson regression models were developed, using the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) score by body region as the dependent variable and the EuroNCAP sco...

In this paper we will discuss the nature of a curriculum in Help Systems, how it can be used to guide users in opportunistic coaching, and, most importantly, how it can be generated automatically for EuroHelp domain models that do not provide such a didactic view. In EuroHelp, a shell for building Intelligent Help Systems for computer applications, curricula take the form of a network of Didact...

I was born in Zagreb (Croatia) on October 26, 1936. My parents were Regina (née Pavić) (April17, 1916, Zagreb–March 9, 1992, Zagreb) and Cvjetko Trinajstić (September 9, 1913, Volosko–October 29, 1998, Richmond, Australia).

BACKGROUND The establishment of the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) is one of the pillars of the European Space of Higher Education. This way of accounting for the time spent in training has two essential parts, classroom teaching (work with the professor) and distance learning (work without the professor, whether in an individual or collective way). Much has been published on the distan...

The goal of this article is to present interactive didactic software for analog to digital conversion using PCM method. After a short introduction regarding vocal signal processing we present some method for analog to digital conversion. The didactic software is an applet that can be direct accessed by any interested person.

Recently, distance learning (DL) has made great achievements in the area of communication space development and the automatic administration of educational processes [1]. Considerably less attention has been paid to the particularities of didactic materials design for DL. The authors claim that a special methodology of didactic material design, based on a cognitive approach, has to be developed...

BACKGROUND Vietnam is experiencing an epidemiologic transition with an increased prevalence of non-communicable diseases. Novel, large-scale, effective, and sustainable interventions to control hypertension in Vietnam are needed. We report the results of a cluster-randomized feasibility trial at 3 months follow-up conducted in Hung Yen province, Vietnam, designed to evaluate the feasibility and...

BACKGROUND With increasing pressure to use operating room time efficiently, opportunities for residents to learn fiberoptic orotracheal intubation in the operating room have declined. The purpose of this study was to determine whether fiberoptic orotracheal intubation skills learned outside the operating room on a simple model could be transferred into the clinical setting. METHODS First-year...