HYPOTHESIS Weekly reading assignments combined with weekly examinations can significantly improve American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination (ABSITE) scores among a group of residents already scoring above the national average. DESIGN Prospective educational study of surgical residents. INTERVENTION Beginning in July 2001, residents were given weekly reading assignments, followed by ...

A fundamental issue in neural coding is the role of spike timing variation in information transmission of sensory stimuli. Vestibular afferents are particularly well suited to study this issue because they are classified as either regular or irregular based on resting discharge variability as well as morphology. Here, we compared the responses of each afferent class to sinusoidal and random hea...

Boulton Jones, J. M., Cameron, J. S., Bewick, M., Ogg, C. S., Meadow, S. R., and Ellis, F. G. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 457. Treatment of terminal renal failure in children by home dialysis and transplantation. Eleven children, aged 6 to 17 years, suffering from irreversible renal failure, were treated by regular haemodialysis. This was preparatory to renal transplantation i...

Scientific intuition can help anticipate the outcome of experiments, but machine learning based on data does not always support these assumptions. A direct comparison human intelligence (HI) and AI suggests domain knowledge is enough.

This study investigates how educational equity is applied in university preparatory classes from the perspective of minority students. It explores students’ access to, participation and outcomes classes, as well factors that influence their experience attitude. Using a mixed research method, 320 students School Minzu Education were surveyed further in-depth interviews conducted with seven respo...

The current study aimed to investigate the effects of proving instructions in L2 listening activities on participants’ performance classroom and views regarding use L1. included 48 students preparatory classes School Foreign languages, at a state university Turkey. Through post-test, only quasi-experimental research design, was compared with L1 activities. results indicated that participants ex...

The motor cortices are active during both movement and movement preparation. A common assumption is that preparatory activity constitutes a subthreshold form of movement activity: a neuron active during rightward movements becomes modestly active during preparation of a rightward movement. We asked whether this pattern of activity is, in fact, observed. We found that it was not: at the level of...

Research conducted largely in medical and clinical settings suggests that receiving preparatory information prior to a stressful event can reduce negative responses to stress. Although results within this domain have been promising, little research has examined the efficacy of preparatory information on enhancing performance in a more applied task environment. This study examined the effect of ...

In this paper we speciically address questions of polysemy with respect to verbs, and how regular extensions of meaning can be achieved through the adjunction of particular syntactic phrases. We see verb classes as the key to making generalizations about regular extensions of meaning. Current approaches to English classiica-tion, Levin classes and WordNet, have limitations in their applicabilit...