This paper discusses the feasibility and effectiveness of using vectors of the current dipoles representing local electric activity inside the atrial myocardium during atrial fibrillation. The application relates to the search for improving the performance of electric signals observed on the body surface in the diagnoses of this life-threatening arrhythmia. The topics addressed include some his...

This paper shows that in education and training systems LOM can be used to map the structure of courses. The necessary extension of the aggregation level is introduced. The description of the courses created with LOM allow for the reuse at all levels. Rhetoric didactic relations between the learning objects are also stored in the LOM records and support adaptivity. Our approach for the first ti...

This paper investigates on the possible advantages of applying generative programming in a component based development process: if a component oriented approach is applied, then generative programming can be used to automatically compose and assemble components. In part one of this paper, I present the application of Generative Programming from an engineering point of view, using a simple but c...

Ontologies provide a means to classify some aspects of the world and then to reason on that classification. Recently, various authors have recommended the use of ontologies that classify subject domains, courses, learning objects and educational processes in E-Learning systems and processes. One promising application of ontologies is in the general management of entire curricula and in program ...

In the frame of a tree species identifying mobile application, designed for a wide scope of users, and with didactic purposes, we developed a method based on the computation of explicit leaf shape descriptors inspired by the criteria used in botany. This paper focuses on the characterization of the leaf contour, the extraction of its properties, and its description using botanical terms. Contou...

BACKGROUND We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of combined single session brief behavioral intervention, either didactic or interactive (Mujer Mas Segura, MMS) to promote safer-sex and safer-injection practices among female sex workers who inject drugs (FSW-IDUs) in Tijuana (TJ) and Ciudad-Juarez (CJ) Mexico. Data for this analysis was obtained from a factorial RCT in 2008-2010 coinciding with ...

Introduction: Direct Observation of Procedural Skills (DOPS)is a way of evaluating procedural skills through observation inthe workplace. The purpose of this study was to assess the role ofDOPS in teaching and assessment of postgraduate students and toknow the effect of repeated DOPS on improvement of the skillsand confidence of the students.Methods: This prospective study was conducted in the ...

OBJECTIVE Peer-assisted learning is widely used in medical education. However, little is known about an appropriate didactic preparation for peer tutors. We herein describe the development of a focused didactic training for skills lab tutors in Internal Medicine and report on a retrospective survey about the student tutors' acceptance and the perceived transferability of attended didactic train...

This research is referred to the application of a methodology called microlearning that included creation content pills or capsules which provided student with learning accessible at any time and in place thanks its ubiquity virtual context, for an instructional design was followed helped improve pedagogical practice. The main objective this determine how use influences area Social Science seco...