objectives this study compared the effects of peer education and an orientation tour on anxiety in patients who were candidates for coronary artery angiography. patients and methods this single blind quasi-experimental study was conducted in 2014. a total of 177 patients who were candidates for coronary artery angiography were divided into three groups: a peer education group, an orientation to...

Introduction: Peer-assisted learning has been shown to be aneffective teaching and learning method. However, this techniquehas not been proven in Thai medical school. We aimed to comparethe effectiveness of peer-assisted learning and self-study ininterpreting an electrocardiogram in Thai medical students.Methods: This is a prospective, randomized controlled trial,<...

A class of cooperative games is introduced which arises from situations in which a set of agents is hierarchically structured and where potential individual economic abilities interfere with the behavioristic rules induced by the organization structure. These games form a cone generated by a specific class of unanimity games, namely those based on coalitions called peer groups. Different econom...

This paper examines the decentralized formation of groups within a peer-to-peer multi-agent system. More specifically, it frames group formation as a clustering problem, and examines how to determine cluster characteristics such as area and density in the absence of information about the entire data set, such as the number of points, the number of clusters, or the maximum distance between point...