introduction: micap is a new notation in which the teeth are indicated by letters (i-incisor, c-canine, p-premolar, m-molar) and numbers [1,2,3] which are written superscript and subscript on the relevant letters. fdi tooth notation is a two digit system where one digit shows quadrant and the second one shows the tooth of the quadrant. this study aimed to compare the short term retention of kno...

background: the success of faculty members of medical sciences universities in medical education arena requires qualification and capabilities authentication in relation with education.  in order to achieve these capabilities, it is necessary to use new and influential approaches of empowerment. one of the appropriate approaches is “competency based training” (cbt). in this method, competencies...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES This research was conducted to compare lecture-and experience-based methods of nutritional education as well as provide fundamental data for developing an effective nutritional education program in elementary schools. SUBJECTS/METHODS A total of 110 students in three elementary schools in Jeollanam-do were recruited and randomly distributed in lecture-and experience-base...

BACKGROUND Current and emerging challenges to public health in the 21st century are vastly different from those faced in previous centuries. And the shortage of health personnel and their low level of educational qualifications hindered the development of Chinese public health services. In order to fulfill this requirement, the Ministry of Education initiated a full-time, Master of Public Healt...

INTRODUCTION Medication errors are risk factors for patients' health and may have irrecoverable effects. These errors include medication miscalculations by nurses and nursing students. This study aimed to design a multimedia application in the field of education for drug calculations in order to compare its effectiveness with the lecture method. METHODS This study selected 82 nursing students...

The paper firstly addresses the current state of speech recognition using the “Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ)”. It is shown that the large-scale corpus had strong impact in training acoustic and language models considering morphological and pronunciation variations which are characteristic to spontaneous Japanese. Unsupervised adaptation of these models and the speaking rate is also effec...