In order to replicate and extend previous observations of validity of the self-reported habitual regulation of one’s affect and the perception of other people’s emotions, prefrontal electroencephalographic (EEG) asymmetry was recorded during and after social-emotional stimulation. After stimulation with other people’s vocal expression of anxiety, individuals with lower scores on emotion regulat...

A new quantitative model of tonal perception for continuous speech is described. The paper illustrates its ability for automatic stylization of pitch contours, with applications to prosodic analysis and speech synthesis in mind, and evaluates it in a perception experiment. After a discussion of the psychoacoustics of tonal perception and an overview of existing tonal perception models and syste...

PURPOSE To compare the use of standardized patients (SPs) and volunteer patients (VPs) for physical therapy students' interviewing practice in terms of students' perception and overall costs. METHODS Students in the Master of Physical Therapy programme (n=80) at a Canadian university were divided into 20 groups of 4 and were randomly assigned to interview either an SP (10 groups) or a VP (10 ...

BACKGROUND With the increasing prevalence of Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) in healthcare institutions, there is a growing need to measure their success. However, there is a lack of published literature emphasizing the technical and social factors underlying a successful PACS. METHODS An updated Information Systems Success Model was utilized by radiology technologists (RTs...

In a lexicographic semiorders model for preference, cues are searched in a subjective order, and an alternative is preferred if its value on a cue exceeds those of other alternatives by a threshold Δ, akin to a just noticeable difference in perception. We generalized this model from preference to inference and refer to it as Δ-inference. Unlike with preference, where accuracy is difficult to de...

The present study was an attempt, in the first place, to observe whether there was any significant relationship among teachers’ critical thinking, self-efficacy, and perception of effective teaching. Moreover, the researchers tried to examine which variable was a better predictor of perception of effective teaching. To this end, the measures of the critical thinking ability of 143 EFL teachers ...

OBJECTIVE To study students' perceptions of the usefulness of small group interactive sessions in medical colleges using conventional or problem based learning (PBL) teaching. METHODS A cross sectional descriptive study was carried out from January 2010 to December 2010. Student's perception of the usefulness of small group interactive sessions (SGIS) was evaluated through a questionnaire fil...

PURPOSE To teach communication skills to medical students, a variety of instructional text and video materials are used. The purpose of this study was to investigate medical students' perception and satisfaction with medical communication teaching using electronic modules. METHODS Medical communication subjects were developed for freshmen of the medical department. Each lesson was configured ...