Technology-facilitated collaboration is extending the ways in which students and instructors interact within and beyond the classroom. Our paper describes how we effectively used Personal Response Systems (PRS), lecture slides, video archives, instant messaging, and course management software to extend interaction in a junior-level Computer Science course. Besides this description, we provide o...

OBJECTIVE Placebo response in studies of binge eating disorder (BED) has raised concern about its diagnostic stability. The aims of this study were (1) to compare placebo responders (PRs) with nonresponders (NRs); (2) to investigate the course of BED following placebo response; and (3) to examine attributions regarding placebo response. METHOD The baseline placebo run-in phase (BL) was part o...

Background To engage students, researchers have been integrating clickers in classroom delivery for study. Clickers, also known as ‘personal response systems’[1], ‘student response systems (SRS), audience response systems (ARS), or personal response systems (PRS)’,[2] are a technology that allow students to respond to the teacher in real time and receive instant feedback from the teacher, thus ...

BACKGROUND Phantom vibration syndrome (PVS) and phantom ringing syndrome (PRS) occur in many cell phone users. Previous studies have indicated an association between PVS/PRS and job stress. The aim of this study was to determine if PVS/PRS were also associated with occupational burnout. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of 384 employees of a high-tech company in northern Taiwan. They a...

One of the perspective tendencies of development of information measuring systems is applying the sensors of physical magnitudes on basis of quartz resonators (QR) of special type, the stimulation of piezoelement in which is accomplished in the vacuum or filled with dielectric gap. The changes of geometry (modulation) of the gap between piezoelement and electrode (electrodes) of quartz resonato...

The steroid hormone, progesterone (P), modulates neuroendocrine functions in the central nervous system resulting in integration of reproduction and reproductive behaviors in female mammals. Although it is widely recognized that P's effects on female sex behavior are mediated by the classical neural progestin receptors (PRs) functioning as 'ligand-dependent' transcription factors to regulate ge...

For competences development of learners and professionals, target competences and corresponding competence development opportunities have to be identified. Personal Recommender Systems (PRS) provide personal recommendations for learners aimed at finding and selecting learning activities that best match their needs. This article argues that a clear-cut description of the concept of ‘competence’ ...

INTRODUCTION The use of EVS (electronic voting systems) in teaching and learning has been extensively reported in the literature. These systems are based on the use of individual ‘handsets’ with which students can provide individual responses to questionnaires in an interactive manner. A variety of hardware technologies could be used for the handsets, such as networked computers, custom-built w...

CONTEXT Previous studies have found that few chronically depressed patients remit with antidepressant medications alone. OBJECTIVE To determine the role of adjunctive psychotherapy in the treatment of chronically depressed patients with less than complete response to an initial medication trial. DESIGN This trial compared 12 weeks of (1) continued pharmacotherapy and augmentation with cogni...