OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of specific training for accident and emergency (A&E) staff on the quality of psychosocial assessment of deliberate self harm patients. METHODS A non-randomised intervention study that compared the psychosocial assessment of deliberate self harm patients before and after a one hour teaching session for the A&E departments nursing and junior medical staff. Adequ...

Moving to Web-based student assessment is a natural progression from current deployment of Web-based delivery of teaching materials. This paper notes similarities in requirements between network-based student assessment and network-based e-commerce. The parallels are instructive since they indicate the stringent technical demands that must be met by both contexts if confidence is to be assured....

Construction processes planning and e®ective management are extremely important for success in construction business. Head of a design must be well experienced in initiating, planning, and executing of construction projects. Therefore, proper assessment of design projects' managers is a vital part of construction process. The paper deals with an e®ective methodology that might serve as a decisi...

background: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) is the most common chronic liver disease in the world. oral administration of symbiotic and vitamin e has been proposed as an effective treatment in nafld patients. this study was carried out to assess the effects of symbiotic and/or vitamin e supplementation on liver enzymes, leptin, lipid profile, and some parameters of insulin resistance (...

this study aimed to provide a framework to assess the e-readiness of ramak company in shiraz. to that end, after reviewing the related literature in the field of e-readiness and selecting the proper model, the model parameters were distributed among experts in the form of a questionnaire, and with the help of fuzzy screening, 49 indicators were finalized. then, using the combination method of d...

The Office of Public Health and Science in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA/FSIS)—with input from other federal agencies, industry, and the public—conducted an assessment of the risk of illness associated with Escherichia coli O157:H7 in ground beef. This risk assessment details our current state of knowledge about (1) the occurrence of E. coli O157:...

Acceptability is a required quality for a sound assessment. For students, acceptability of a test is strongly influenced by perception of fairness. Computer-based assessment has been reported to be preferred by students provided that strict controls to prevent cheating are in place. This may be difficult to achieve as e-assessments are often taken in learning environments where computer screens...

Young adults in college have high rates of marijuana use, abuse, and dependence. Web-based interventions are increasingly popular, but their dissemination exceeds empirical support. One popular but understudied program is The Marijuana eCHECKUP TO GO (e-TOKE) for Universities & Colleges (San Diego State University Research Foundation, 2009). The aim of the present study was to evaluate its shor...

Self-assessment is one of the crucial activities within e-learning environments that provide learners with feedback regarding their level of accumulated knowledge. From this point of view, the authors think that guidance of learners in self-assessment activity must be an important goal of e-learning environment developers. The scope of the chapter is to present a recommender software system tha...

this study was aimed to assess the protective effects of cornus mas fruit extract (cmfe) and vitamin e (vit e) on sperm quality parameters in the methotrexate (mtx)-treated mice. forty-eight young adult male mice (8-12 weeks) were randomly divided into six groups including control and test groups. the control group received normal saline orally , and the test groups were treated mtx (20 mg kg-1...