A brief psychosocial intervention model for alcohol and drug dependence recovery has been evolved in the form of psycho-educational group therapy. The package comprises of eight sessions conducted thrice a week over a period of about three weeks following detoxification. It aims to equip the patients with information and knowledge relevant to the needs of recovery. The program covers topics suc...

Non-contact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury is one of the most common ligament injuries in the body. Many patients’ receive graft surgery to repair the damage, but have to undertake an extensive period of rehabilitation. However, non-compliance and lack of understanding of the injury, healing process and rehabilitation means patient’s return to activities before effective structural int...

This paper presents the virtual laboratory software developed at the Department of Mathematical Modeling (BMSTU). The laboratory is designed as an educational tool for the nonlinear control courses. It allows to see 3D demonstrations of control processes for various nonlinear systems. The laboratory software package is developed using the Python programming language. It has open code and archit...

1 Matti Väänänen, HAMK – University of Applied Sciences, [email protected] Abstract HAMK University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with industry and with public funding is developing a new way to improve the know-how in the area of local metal industry. The whole “package” InnoSteel consists of a group of projects which contain support for product development of innovative companies an...

The purpose of this study was to assess the perceived effectiveness of the CourseInfo instructional technology package implemented at a regional Midwestern university. An online survey was administered, with 971 students and 44 faculty responding. Results indicate attitudes of both faculty and students were positive – both believed that the web, and specifically Blackboard's CourseInfo, were be...

Collocation and idiom extraction are wellknown challenges with many potential applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Our experimental, open-source software system, called ICE, is a python package for flexibly extracting collocations and idioms, currently in English. It also has a competitive POS tagger that can be used alone or as part of collocation/idiom extraction. ICE is availab...

The new R package flirt is introduced for flexible item response theory (IRT) modeling of psychological, educational, and behavior assessment data. flirt integrates a generalized linear and nonlinear mixed modeling framework with graphical model theory. The graphical model framework allows for efficient maximum likelihood estimation. The key feature of flirt is its modular approach to facilitat...

People with learning disabilities often experience health inequalities and barriers to healthcare services as a result of poor communication and discriminatory attitudes. We developed an educational package for healthcare staff as well as an attitude questionnaire to measure the impact of this training; the questionnaire is called the Attitudes of Secondary Healthcare Personnel Toward People wi...

Motorola’s field programmable analog arrays can be utilized to enrich educational laboratories by providing a platform for experiments in control systems engineering, analog signal filtering, switched capacitor circuit design, and simulation of dynamic systems. The field programmable analog array package includes an excellent PC based software support system for application design. Additional h...

Adaptability to each separate user’s needs and preferences is a common concern in modern e-learning systems. Among various adaptation techniques described in recent research, collaboration support seeks to create groups that efficiently work together in order to advance user’s learning. This paper defines two similarity coefficients between users and learning objects and focuses on automatic cr...