BACKGROUND Conduction of thesis by the students is one of their major academic activities. Thesis quality and acquired experiences are highly dependent on the supervision. Our study is aimed at identifing the challenges in thesis supervision from both students and faculty members point of view. METHODS This study was conducted using individual in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussions (...

There is currently considerable concern about the attractiveness of hospital medicine as a career and experiences in core medical training (CMT) are a key determinant of whether trainees continue in the medical specialties. Little is understood about the quality and impact of the current CMT programme and this survey was designed to assess this. Three key themes emerged. Firstly, the demands of...

Résumé Afin d’améliorer les conditions de vie des malades et de diminuer les coûts d’hospitalisation, le monde médical s’intéresse de plus en plus aux techniques de télémonitoring. Celles-ci permettront aux personnes âgées ou aux malades à risques, de rester à leur domicile, tout en bénéficiant d’une surveillance médicale à distance, automatisée et assistée, capable d’avertir les services d’urg...

Agents interacting in a dynamically changing spatial environment often need to access the same spatial resources. A typical example is given by moving vehicles that meet at an intersection in a street network. In such situations right-of-way rules regulate the actions the vehicles involved may perform. For this application scenario we show how the Golog framework for reasoning about action and ...

Article history: Available online 3 April 2010

With the rapid expansion of scale China's capital market, disclosure accounting information listed companies is not standardized and problem transparency becoming more prominent. This paper analyzes present situation existing problems supervision system in China from three aspects: internal companies, government legal social intermediary system, puts forward some countermeasures for perfecting ...