This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game with punishment in which subjects are given the opportunity to punish other group members (democratic punishment regime) and (ii) a public goods game environment where all group members exogenously experience an automatic reduction of their income (irrespective of their behaviou...

BACKGROUND Trainees rarely have the opportunity to practice suctioning copious or bloody secretions from the airways of patients in respiratory distress. The act of suctioning is frequently overlooked during the training of personnel in airway management and, thus, there is a dearth of simulated suction devices that can reproduce the fidelity of this process. OBJECTIVE The authors describe th...

Here we attempted to clarify the role of dopamine signaling in reward seeking. In Experiment 1, we assessed the effects of the dopamine D(1)/D(2) receptor antagonist flupenthixol (0.5 mg/kg i.p.) on Pavlovian incentive motivation and found that flupenthixol blocked the ability of a conditioned stimulus to enhance both goal approach and instrumental performance (Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfe...

PURPOSE To provide dental hygiene students with a service learning opportunity to work with special needs and culturally diverse underserved populations through the Oral Health on Wheels (OHOW) community based mobile dental hygiene clinic. METHODS A student feedback survey was administered between the years of 2009 and 2013 to 90 students in order to gather and identify significant satisfacti...

0882 doi:1 a car while riding his bike 5 hours ago. The child had a mild concussion and a fractured femur. You are to prepare for his admission. This brief introduction begins your simulated learning experience. Learning through simulation provides pediatric nurses with the opportunity to practice clinical skills in a safe environment. Simulated scenarios are useful as teaching methods within a...

This paper is a reflection on the emerging genre of narrative visualization, a creative response to the need to share complex data engagingly with the public. In it, we explain how narrative visualization offers authors the opportunity to communicate more effectively with their audience by reproducing and sharing an experience of insight similar to their own. To do so, we propose a two part mod...

Acknowledgement First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Prof. K. R. Ramakrishnan for giving me the encouragement, sagacious guidance and useful suggestions throughout the course of my internship. It has been a real learning experience to work under his guidance. His keen interest and prompt initiative has tremendously helped me to explore unknown areas. I am also tha...

Title: Correction of self-reported BMI based on objective measurements: a Belgian experience Authors: Sabine Drieskens ([email protected]) Stefaan Demarest ([email protected]) Sarah Bel ([email protected]) Karin De Ridder ([email protected]) Jean Tafforeau ([email protected]) Version: 1 Date: 23 Oct 2017 Author’s response to reviews: Comments N Chau (revie...

Cardiac Surgical Services in Europe are provided in a large number of centres. In the UK eleven hospitals currently perform cardiac surgery in children, none with a caseload of more than 500 patients per year. Many of the operations we perform are relatively uncommon and have implications for anaesthetic management. This makes it difficult for the individual anaesthetists or anaesthetic groups ...

Is it possible to create an interactive experience that sustains viewers' emotional involvement with streaming media at the same time that it enlists their attention in determining the order of events? How does one integrate the fluid continuity of cinematic experience with the kinds of choice and control that hypermedia affords? We developed a technique called Seamless Expansion that takes adv...