OBJECTIVE To assess the improvement of knowledge and skills of trauma management among participant of Primary Trauma Care (PTC) workshop. METHODS A two days Primary Trauma Care (PTC) provider workshop was organized at Dow International Medical College, Karachi - Pakistan on March 5(th) and 6th 2011. Participant's knowledge was assessed by 30 Best Choice Questions (BCQs) and their trauma manag...

According to the dominant focus model, the differential activation of the thalamocortical network is a sufficient condition for the diversity of states of consciousness to occur, and coherent patterns of interactive forebrain activation peaks are sufficient to generate specific conscious figures against ground. These minimal assumptions are consonant with the known properties of unilateral negl...

In this paper we present GINA, a game design workshop at the Industrial Design Faculty of the Politecnico di Milano, performed during the last two academic years with the students of the first year of the master course (Laurea Magistrale). GINA stands for Gioco (game) – Interazione (interaction) Narrazione (storytelling) – Animazione (animation). In these workshops Game Design is not seen as a ...

<p style="text-align:justify">This paper investigated how puppetry could be used to improve the standards of early childhood science education. This study determined effect a puppet-making and workshop on preservice preschool teachers’ beliefs attitudes towards education looked into their experiences during after puppet-making. Although participants faced some difficulties workshop, they ...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs A brief interactive training for health care professionals working with people affected by " female genital mutilation " : initial pilot evaluation with psychosexual therapists Journal Article (2016). A brief interactive training for health care professionals working with people affected by " female genital mut...

ABIS ‘Adaptivität und Benutzermodellierung in interaktiven Softwaresystemen’ is the special interest group on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Systems of the German Computer Society. The ABIS Workshop has been established as a highly interactive forum for discussing the state of the art in personalization and user modeling. Latest developments in industry and research are presented i...

We are pleased to present this special issue on experience and design methods. This issue has its origins in a workshop organised by Ron Wakkary, Thecla Schiphorst and Jim Budd (2004), titled ‘Cross-dressing and border crossing: exploring experience methods across disciplines’, held as part of the ACM SIGCHI 2004 conference in Vienna, Austria. The workshop was to all appearances among the stran...

This article is a product of a workshop on the Future of Visual Analytics, held in Washington, DC on 4 March 2009. Workshop attendees included representatives from the visual analytics research community across government, industry and academia. The goal of the workshop, and the resulting article, was to reflect on the first 5 years of the visual analytics enterprise and propose research challe...