Playing a violin requires precise patterns of limb coordination that are acquired over years of practice. In the present study, the authors investigated how motion at proximal arm joints influenced the precision of bow movements in novice learners and experts. The authors evaluated the performances of 11 children (4-12 years old), 3 beginning-to-advanced level adult players, and 2 adult concert...

Merdeka Learning is a new policy given by the government to promote quality education. Quality education that able carry out process of maturing students which developed freeing from ignorance and incompetence. With education, generations or superior human resources will be born in all aspects life. Many policies have been carried improve such as independent learning policy. Educational institu...

In a recent study on the pendulation of a small-sized humanoid robot (Lungarella & Berthouze, 2002a,b), we provided experimental evidence that starting with fewer degrees of freedom enables a more efficient exploration of the sensorimotor space during the acquisition of a task. The study came as support for the well-established framework of Bernstein (1967), namely that of an initial freezing o...

Dr Lewicky is from the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Ariz. Reprint requests: Yuri M. Lewicky, MD, Dept of Orthopedic Surgery, Arizona Health Sciences Center, PO Box 245064, Tucson, Az 85724-5064. Operative repair of fractures is most effi ciently achieved when an experienced surgical team is involved. Expertise and familiarity with instrumentation as ...

The role of a junior doctor involves preparing for the morning ward round. At a time when there are gaps on rotas and doctors' time is more stretched, this can be a source of significant delay and thus a loss of working time. We therefore looked at ways in which we could make the ward round a more efficient place by introducing specific electronic, printed ward round proformas. We used the aver...