CONTEXT As part of curriculum evaluation, management and quality assurance strategies, many undergraduate medical schools are in the process of constructing computer-based curriculum maps. METHODS A survey was distributed to Canadian and UK medical schools to determine the current status, characteristics, and challenging and successful aspects of their efforts in curriculum mapping. Quantitat...

Probably more than any country, Singapore has made significant investment into the biomedical enterprise as a proportion of its economy and size. This focus recently witnessed a shift towards a greater emphasis on translational and clinical development. Key to the realisation of this strategy will be Academic Medical Centres (AMCs), as a principal tool to developing and applying useful products...

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HUMAN CARE THEORY (WATSON) ON THE NURSING STUDENTS PERCEPTION OF THE CARE Saeedeh Elhami, Hojat Zareh Houshyari Khah, Khadijeh Moradbeigi, Nasim Hatefi Moadab, Bahman Cheraghian. Instructor, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Abadan school of medical sciences, Abadan, Iran; Instructor, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Abadan school of Medical ...

Recommender systems have shown great potential to help users find interesting and relevant items from within a large information space. Most research up to this point has focused on improving the accuracy of recommender systems. We believe that not only has this narrow focus been misguided, but has even been detrimental to the field. The recommendations that are most accurate according to the s...

Under the Reserve Bank Act 1959, the Reserve Bank has responsibility for the production, issue, reissue and cancellation of Australia’s banknotes. The key objective of the Bank in meeting this legislative responsibility is to maintain public confidence in Australia’s banknotes. There are three facets to this. First, the Bank ensures that there are sufficient banknotes to meet demand. Second, it...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether variation in the representation of minority physicians across geographical areas in California affects the location decisions of minority physicians. DATA SOURCES We analyzed data on 9,806 residents and 53,606 patient-care physicians from the 1997-2003 American Medical Association Masterfiles for California along with data from the California Department of Finan...

Stochastic noise of an appropriate amplitude can maximize the coherence of the dynamics of certain types of excitable systems via a phenomenon known as coherence resonance (CR). In this paper we demonstrate, using a simple excitable system, the mechanism underlying the generation of CR. Using analytical expressions for the spectral density of the system's dynamics, we show that CR relies on the...

Three web-based biosecurity intelligence systems - BioCaster, EpiSPIDER and HealthMap--are compared with respect to their ability to gather and analyse information relevant to public health. Reports from each system for the period 2-30 August 2010 were studied. The systems were compared to the volume of information that they acquired, their overlaps in this information, their timeliness, their ...