This paper focuses on special problems about essential didactical aspects for course instructors like defining and evaluating learning objectives within the e-learning situation. Therefore, basics about competencies, learning objectives and assessments are treated with a focus on traditional education. By applying these concepts on e-learning, existing problems for e-learning courses are discus...

OBJECTIVES After participating in the CME activity, primary care physicians should be able to: 1. Understand the fundamental concepts in cardiovascular risk stratification in hypercholesterolemic subjects based on new cholesterol guidelines 2. Recognize the common secondary causes of hypercholesterolemia and the choice of laboratory studies to identify patients with these disorders 3. Understan...

OBJECTIVE To verify the sensitivity of the conventional subtests of the Behavioral Inattention Test (BIT) in the diagnosis of hemineglect after stroke. METHOD One hundred and two patients with cerebral infarct or hemorrhage were prospectively evaluated. In 22, hemineglect was diagnosed using standard BIT criteria. The frequency of hemineglect using 6 commonly used screening subtests of this b...

The expanding gap between microprocessor and DRAM performance has necessitated the use of increasingly aggressive techniques designed to reduce or hide the latency of main memory accesses. Although large cache hierarchies have proven to be effective in reducing this latency for the most frequently used data, it is still not uncommon for scientific programs to spend more than half their run time...

The plea by Robert West to invite authors of clinical and behavioral studies to publish their data sets and command files is clearly important in context of the prevention of research waste [1,2]. I fully agree to his proposal, but I also firmly believe we need to go substantially further. West focuses on voluntary transparency regarding the data and the analyses underlying the article at issue...

Ontology is currently perceived as the solution of first resort for all problems related to biomedical terminology, and the use of description logics is seen as a minimal requirement on adequate ontology-based systems. Contrary to common conceptions, however, description logics alone are not able to prevent incorrect representations; this is because they do not come with a theory indicating wha...

Epidemiologists and public health researchers are moving very slowly in the data sharing revolution, and agencies that maintain global health databases are reluctant to share data too. Once investments in infrastructure have been made, recycling and combining data provide access to maximum knowledge for minimal additional cost. By refusing to share data, researchers are slowing progress towards...

Language involves knowledge of multiple complex linguistic systems, such as phonology, morphology, and syntax. For each system, the process of acquisition requires children to discover the underlying components of that system, which native speakers use to generate the observable data. Theoretical research traditionally provides a description of the knowledge to be acquired, identifying what chi...

Example-based explanations are widely used in the effort to improve the interpretability of highly complex distributions. However, prototypes alone are rarely sufficient to represent the gist of the complexity. In order for users to construct better mental models and understand complex data distributions, we also need criticism to explain what are not captured by prototypes. Motivated by the Ba...