a bstract background: clinical competency is one of the most important requirements in nursing profession, based on which nurses are assessed. to obtain an effective and improved form of clinical competency, several factors are observed and monitored by the health educational systems. among these observed factors, spiritual intelligence is considered as one of the most significant factors in nu...

Strings are an important part of most real application multivalued contexts. Their conceptual treatment requires the definition of substring scales, i.e., sets of relevant substrings, so as to form informative concepts. However these scales are either defined by hand, or derived in a context-unaware manner (e.g., all words occuring in string values). We present an efficient algorithm based on s...

Methods We begin by illustrating the MI approaches with an example, a cost-effectiveness analysis of a CRT evaluating an intervention for postnatal depression (2659 participants, 100 clusters ICC for cost 0.17, ICC for QALYs 0.04). We conducted a simulation study to assess the performance of the alternative methods. Missing data scenarios were simulated according to factors hypothesized to infl...

Digital competency is the ability of an individual to successfully navigate through abundance digital information available on Internet. Coincidently, rise leads significant importance referencing competency, which knowledge, skills, and properly manage resources. However, much focus has been given towards assessment rather than studying determinants impacts competency. Additionally, fewer stud...

BACKGROUND Simulation-based learning is increasingly prevalent in many surgical training programs, as medical education moves toward competency-based curricula. In orthopaedic surgery, developmental dysplasia of the hip is a commonly treated condition, where the standard of care for patients less than six months of age is an orthotic device such as the Pavlik harness. However, despite widesprea...

manufacturing industries of agricultural products, which constitute a considerable part of different countries’ economies, are seeking new profitable opportunities by increasing competition at the international level. organizational agility is new method and philosophy of production that seeks to react effectively to the variable and unpredictable environment and to utilize the changes as chanc...

BACKGROUND The assessment of the performance of medical school graduates during their first postgraduate years provides an early indicator of the quality of the undergraduate curriculum and educational process. The objective of this study was to assess the clinical competency of medical graduates, as perceived by the graduates themselves and by the experts. METHODS This is a hospital based cr...

to investigate attitudes of iranian senior dental students towards preventive dentistry in relation to their background factors and self-perceived competency in providing preventive care.in spring 2008, a questionnaire survey was conducted with all the senior dental students of seven randomly selected state dental schools in iran. in addition to the respondents' age and gender, the voluntary qu...

the relationship betweennurses' quality of work life and their clinical competency     habibzadeh h [1] *, ghorbanzadek [2] , khalkhali hr [3] , mohamadpor y [4]     received: 3feb, 2012 accepted: 6may, 2012     abstract   background & aims : high quality of work life (qwl) is known as basic prerequisite for empowering human resources in health system. while nurses have a significant posit...

Reading proficiency is a fundamental component of language competency. However, finding topical texts at an appropriate reading level for foreign and second language learners is a challenge for teachers. This task can be addressed with natural language processing technology to assess reading level. Existing measures of reading level are not well suited to this task, but previous work and our ow...