This article details a set of procedures for the analysis and interpretation of the content and structure of online networks and communities. These novel methods allow for the analysis of online chat, including parsing the data http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol8/issue4/rosen.html (1 of 19) [1/11/2005 9:13:46 AM] Procedures for Analyses of Online Communities into separate and interrelated files to ...

This study assesses the effect of population change on decade changes in the educational attainments of country of origin populations in the United States. Our data are derived from decennial censuses, NLMS, the World Bank, and INS. We find that changes in the share of country of origin populations with one or more years of post-secondary schooling are associated with selected components of pop...

Virtual patients (VPs) have the potential to augment existing medical school curricula to teach history-taking and communication skills. A goal of our current efforts to study virtual characters in health professions education is to develop a system that can be independently accessed and thus user satisfaction is an important factor in how readily this technology will be adopted. Twenty-three m...

thyroid nodules are common, occurring in almost two-thirds of some populations; among these only about 7% are malignant. the most important question with any new discovered thyroid nodule is, “is this malignant?” the main arbiter of malignancy or benignity remains fine needle aspiration and the mainstay of treatment surgery. but given the resources involved, doing an fnac or surgery in every di...

Against the background of the organization of an EARLI Advanced Study Colloquium on Cognitive Neuroscience Meets Mathematics Education, we argued that the interdisciplinary field of neuroscience and education should be conceived as a two-way street with multiple bi-directional interactions between educational research and cognitive neuroscience (De Smedt et al., 2010a). In his response to our p...

The article is devoted to the definition consideration of educational needs persons with health limitations (hereinafter – HL) and disabled in tertiary education system; aspects which these are expressed. highlights adaptation possibilities people system, as well specifics organization goals an institution for teaching HL. authors identify barriers social relations faced by students HL, their t...

background and purpose: inserting a nasogastric tube, though a common clinical procedure with widespread use for critically ill patients, can produce unexpected complications so that tube misplacement into the lungs is a potential complication with serious consequences. the reliability of common bedside methods to differentiate between pulmonary and gastric placement has not been acceptable. th...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the ability of the health education program to improve patient's health-related quality of life with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Seventy patients in pre-operation were randomized into the study, with 35 patients in the experimental and 35 patients in the control group. The demographic information, Sf-36 and Nottingham Health ProfIle questio...

At present scenario, various image based techniques are available for 3D modeling. Among of them, Photogrammetry and Laser scanning are the main geomatics techniques. Satellite photogrammetry and Aerial photogrammetry is not easy to use by every person, because the images are not easily available for everybody. Due to this reason, a new approach is possible to make virtual 3D model of any campu...