BACKGROUND In a recent study comparing psychosocial consultations prior to and after the implementation of national clinical guidelines in the Netherlands, we found that general practitioners (GPs) showed less empathy in the more recent consultations. As a consequence, patients possibly have less scope to express their worries. The objective is to investigate whether patients have become more r...

OBJECTIVES This report presents long-term trends in the number and percentage of persons under age 65 years with different types of health insurance coverage and with no coverage. It documents changes in how the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) has collected information about coverage over almost 50 years. It also compares recent trends in coverage estimates based on the NHIS and the U.S...

The paper presents some aspects regarding the conditions of submitting the proposal of introducing new interactive learning methods for lifelong learning in Transilvania University of Brasov: problem based and projectbased learning methods, as the most appropriate for this type of learning. In the same time, the partnership, objectives, learning activities, main outcomes and dissemination of th...

Regardless the growing popularity of Virtual Reality, the design of Virtual Environments remains a complex task that requires skilled people. To overcome this, we have developed the VR-WISE approach that allows specifying a Virtual Environment at a conceptual level, free from any implementation details, allowing stakeholders not familiar with VR-technology to participate in the design of a VR a...

We present a discussion of the potential and anticipated impact of immersive VR touch workbenches for creative 3D work in engineering and art practice. The discussion highlights three recent interaction techniques developed for these applications. Based on this experience, we formulate a set of guidelines and domain specific challenges to guide future practitioners.

The nature of moral action versus moral judgment has been extensively debated in numerous disciplines. We introduce Virtual Reality (VR) moral paradigms examining the action individuals take in a high emotionally arousing, direct action-focused, moral scenario. In two studies involving qualitatively different populations, we found a greater endorsement of utilitarian responses-killing one in or...

Research was undertaken to evaluate alternative methods of selecting a sample of eligible respondents for the National Medical Expenditure Survey (NM ES) from the National Health Interview Survey (N HIS). This report presents estimates of the effects of alternative design options, obtained by statistical modeling techniques, for linking the NMES with the NH IS, The estimated survey costs for al...

The Standard Model does not provide a very good fit to the most recent precision electroweak data from LEP, due primarily to the observed branching ratios for Z decay to bb̄ and cc̄. The possibility that an extension of the Standard Model with low-energy supersymmetry can improve the agreement between data and theory is considered. Invited Talk at the 1995 International Europhysics Conference on ...