Blended learning has been recognized as the most promising emerging trend in higher education, offering new capabilities, as it may significantly enhance the interaction and communication between instructors and students. The challenge of blended learning is to balance the weaknesses and strengths of face-to-face and e-learning teaching environments and effectively combine them to provide enhan...

Practise is one of the most important steps in learning the art of computer programming. Unfortunately, human grading of programming assignments is a tedious and error-prone task, a problem compounded by the large enrolments of many programming courses. As a result, students in such courses tend to be given fewer programming assignments than should be ideally given. One solution to this problem...

OBJECTIVES To describe the introduction of robotic sacrocolpopexy (RSC) in a urogynecology fellowship program, including operative times and patient outcomes. METHODS Data were retrospectively extracted from all women who underwent RSC between May 1, 2009 and December 31, 2011 by a single urogynecologist with fellow and resident assistance. Patient demographics, operative times, intraoperativ...

Despite the release of a national report describing key markers of emergency department (ED) overcrowding, limited linear data using these markers have been published. We sought to report the degree and trends of ED overcrowding in a typical academic hospital and to highlight some of the key markers of ED patient flow and care. We conducted a prospective study in a large Canadian urban tertiary...

This paper contains a case study on the successful initiation of an academic institution transformation project. The present environment in the Czech Republic is forcing all academic institutions to change their operations. Budgets are low, competition is high, and the number of students is decreasing. From 2009 – 2012 the Czech Ministry of Education implemented a project focused on the specifi...

This study was conducted in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Penang, Malaysia in April 2005. The objectives of the study were to examine the life satisfaction of the academic and non-academic staff. Findings revealed that some demographic variables had significant difference in life satisfaction. This study could provide meaningful information to the top management to design intervention progra...

This chapter was originally published in the book Academic Press Library in Signal Processing. The copy attached is provided by Elsevier for the author’s benefit and for the benefit of the author’s institution, for noncommercial research, and educational use. This includes without limitation use in instruction at your institution, distribution to specific colleagues, and providing a copy to you...

This chapter was originally published in the book Academic Press Library in Signal Processing. The copy attached is provided by Elsevier for the author’s benefit and for the benefit of the author’s institution, for noncommercial research, and educational use. This includes without limitation use in instruction at your institution, distribution to specific colleagues, and providing a copy to you...