Smartphones, as ubiquitous companions in all activities of daily living (ADLs), have also been adopted in educational contexts. Mobile applications go along with novel interfaces and ways of interaction, converging towards the vision of Ubiquitous Computing (Weiser, 1998). In this article, we provide an up-to-date overview of the demand on mobile services in higher education and learning enviro...

The first 11⁄2 or 2 years of training in most U.S. and Canadian medical schools focuses on building an understanding of the pathophysiologic mechanisms of common diseases. An assumption exists that students will retain this knowledge and have the ability to recall and apply it in real clinical settings. However, some evidence from the cognitive science and education literature call such assumpt...

Integratingmobile phones into higher education, andmore specifically in the distance education context, is no longer regarded a strange phenomenon. Mobile devices arewidely used by distance education institutions tomake learning available and accessible to increasingly more students. Although mobile learning providesmoremobility and convenience to these students than online learning, students m...

Anatomy teaching is undergoing significant changes due to time constraints, limited availability of cadavers and technological developments in the areas of three-dimensional modelling and computerassisted learning. This paper gives an overview of methods used to teach anatomy to undergraduate medical students and discusses the educational advantages and disadvantages of using three-dimensional ...

The antibacterial and antifungal activities of three schiff bases were evaluated against some pathogenic bacteria and fungi. Parallel experiments were also carried out with standard drugs (Kanamycin for bacteria and Nystatin for fungi). Two compounds [N-(1-phenyl-2-hydroxy-2phenylethylidine)-2',4' dinitrophenyl hydrazine, abbreviated as PDH and N-(2-hydroxy benzylidine)-2'-hydroxy imine, abbrev...

Transcranial Doppler sonography (TCD) and transcranial cerebral oximetry (TCCO) measures of cerebral blood flow velocity and oxygenation levels were collected during an abbreviated 12-min vigilance task. Both the TCD and TCCO measures showed higher levels of cerebral vascular activity in the right than in the left cerebral hemisphere; the cerebral laterality of vigilance occurs in an abbreviate...

The contemporary robotics is an excellent tool for teaching science and engineering and an attractive topic for students of all ages. Problems of robotics are fundamentally about the couple sensing – action, the two parallel activities bounded by the robot’s dynamics. It is just the robot’s dynamics that makes the relation “sense – act” difficult to control and calls for the advanced study. The...

When first introduced to the analysis of algorithms, students are taught how to assess the best and worst cases, whereas the mean and amortized costs are considered advanced topics, usually saved for graduates. When presenting the latter, aggregate analysis is explained first because it is the most intuitive kind of amortized analysis, often involving enumerative combinatorics. We show how the ...

BACKGROUND We evaluated brief combination interventions to simultaneously reduce sexual and injection risks among female sex workers who inject drugs (FSW-IDUs) in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico during 2008-2010, when harm reduction coverage was expanding rapidly in Tijuana, but less so in Juarez. METHODS FSW-IDUs ≥18 years reporting sharing injection equipment and unprotected sex with cli...