Combinatorial design theory traces its origins to statistical theory of experimental design but also to recreational mathematics of the 19th century and to geometry. In the past forty years combinatorial design theory has developed into a vibrant branch of combinatorics with its own aims, methods and problems. It has found substantial applications in other branches of combinatorics, in graph th...

THE MANUSCRIPT Among the manuscripts bearing mainly on Maltese ecclesiastical affairs, preserved in the archives of the Cathedral at Mdina, one occasionally comes across documents containing material of interest to the medical historian. One such manuscript of the mid-sixteenth century deals with the procedure for the annulment of marriage on medical grounds. The manuscript consists of four fol...

We are using the term ‘microtonal tuning’ here to mean simply any tuning with more than twelve notes per octave, though we realise that the term is sometimes defined more broadly. For example, the definition could be so broad as to include all tunings other than the one based on the ubiquitous Western tempered scale with twelve equally-spaced steps per octave (hereinafter abbreviated as 12-ET)....

In the past many didactic models have been developed for regular courses. But didactic models for e-learning courses and specific for MOOCs are still under development. Such a model should provide a basis for measurements against the high drop-out rate of MOOCs. Recently we introduced FETCH 2.0 as didactic model for e-learning using social media. In this paper we discuss a didactic model for re...

There can be no single best way of learning, and each teaching mode has its own merits and demerits. Didactic lectures in and of themselves are insufficient, whereas a problem-based tutorial alone can be as ineffective. This study was conducted to determine if a problem-based review after didactic lectures would lead to better student performance. To compare performance, the same student group ...

In this paper we present an analysis of the development process of technology-supported didactic material. Such analysis considers didactic materials as the conjunction of contents and instructional design used to guide learning and teaching processes. And we examine why several features such as reusability, semantic interoperability and collaboration support must be ensured from the earlier st...

In the past many didactic models have been developed for regular courses. But didactic models for e-learning courses and specific for MOOCs are still under development. Such a model should provide a basis for measurements against the high drop-out rate of MOOCs. Recently we introduced FETCH 2.0 as didactic model for e-learning using social media. In this paper we discuss a didactic model for re...

INTRODUCTION The structure of the interview day affects applicant interactions with faculty and residents, which can influence the applicant's rank list decision. We aimed to determine if there was a difference in matched residents between those interviewing on a day on which didactics were held and had increased resident and faculty presence (didactic day) versus an interview day with less ava...

Let Σk consist of all k-graphs with three edges D1, D2, D3 such that |D1∩D2| = k − 1 and D1 △ D2 ⊆ D3. The exact value of the Turán function ex(n,Σk) was computed for k = 3 by Bollobás [Discrete Math., 8 (1974) 21–24] and for k = 4 by Sidorenko [Math Notes, 41 (1987) 247–259]. Let the k-graph Tk ∈ Σk have edges {1, . . . , k}, {1, 2, . . . , k − 1, k + 1}, and {k, k + 1, . . . , 2k − 1}. Frankl...

It is not necessary to say that we are in the crossroads between the old socratic methods of medical education and the complete adoption of new philosophies such as collaborative learning (social media) or learner delivery co-design (flipped classroom). All these approaches are based on the fact that our learners and some of the teachers have a very millennial learning style, defined by the abi...