Programming by demonstration is a promising approach to automatic robot programming, however methods are required to remove suboptimal actions that can be demonstrated by end users. In this paper we use the partial knowledge of Con guration Space (C-space) derived in previous work to remove suboptimal actions from a demonstration. Our idea is to use demonstrated paths to predict what regions in...

The RCN standards of care programme was established in 1987 as part of a wider initiative to improve the quality of nursing care. In the beginning its director, Alison Kitson, worked with groups of nurses to introduce the first concepts of nursing and health quality. Here, she describes how the programme developed.

A consistent finding in the literature is that newly graduated medical students often do not prossess the basic skills required to perform their jobs. Training designed to prepare newly graduated medical students for intermship was developed and delivered to 106 newly graduated medical students. Feedback on the course was obtained using anonymous pre-and post-course questionaires. A total of 32...

In Wikipedia, good articles are wanted. While Wikipedia relies on collaborative effort from online volunteers for quality checking, the process of selecting top quality articles is time consuming. At present, the duty of decision making is shouldered by only a couple of administrators. Aiming to assist in the quality checking cycles so as to cope with the exponential growth of online contributi...

Context Compassion is not a new concept within healthcare. However, compassion has become the focus of much research and debate during the past 10 years, following reports of lack of compassion within UK healthcare practice. This recent intense focus has addressed many aspects of care practices and education, recognising that compassion is a complex concept. This study adds a further dimension ...

The structure of a protein can elucidate its function, in both general and specific terms, and its evolutionary history. Extracting this information, however, requires a knowledge of the structure and its relationships with other proteins. These two aspects are not independent, for an understanding of the structure of a single protein requires a general knowledge of the folds that proteins adop...

This article evaluates three proposed laws of semantic change. Our claim is that in order to validate a putative law of semantic change, the effect should be observed in the genuine condition but absent or reduced in a suitably matched control condition, in which no change can possibly have taken place. Our analysis shows that the effects reported in recent literature must be substantially revi...