Foreword This text is a script of a two-hour a week lecture about Independent Component Analysis held at the University of Regensburg by Elmar Lang and me during the summer term 2003. The text is largely based on the textbook [Hyvärinen et al., 2001a]. Furthermore , a longer version of this text also served as the introductory chapters of my dissertation in computer science at the University of...

Albert R. Jonsen, Chairman of the Department of Medical History and Ethics at The University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, has written a splendid little book; this book is based upon Professor Jonsen's 1988 George Washington Gay Lecture to the students of the Harvard University School of Medicine. I believe that this book has sufficient stature and grace to earn a place alongside...

s: Keynote Lecture Abstracts 5 Plenary Lecture Abstracts 7 Research Symposium Abstracts 22 Poster Abstracts 25 Other Abstracts 42 Author Index 46 ESDaP President Dennis Linder University of Padua Medical School Padua, Italy President Elect Uwe Gieler Zentrum fur Psychosomatische Medizin Giessen, Germany Secretary General Lucia Tomas Aragones Department of Psychology, University of Zaragoza Zara...

ON 16 DECEMBER 1gg 1, I gave the seventh Sol M. Malkin Lecture in Bibliography on “The Future of Rare Book Libraries” at the School of Library Service (SLS) ,Columbia University.” (In assessing this honor, bear in mind that I am the person principally responsible for selecting Malkin Lecturers.) The Book Arts Press published the first six Malkin Lectures as separate pamphlets, most of them eleg...

Background: Problem-based learning is a student-centered teaching method that encourages students to become active learners in the classroom and  to improve the learning processes.  The aim of this study was to compare two methods of teaching, problem- based learning (PBL) and lecture-based learning, in an embryology course. Methods: This was a semi-experimental study conducted in Kurdistan Uni...

We present the MLI (Mobile Lecture Interaction) application for enhancing lecture interaction between a teacher and the students. With their personal mobile phones students can anonymously ask questions and support questions from other students by voting for them. The questions and their support are displayed in real-time to the teacher who can then address them as (s)he finds appropriate. The ...

A new software architectural model for the archival of slide-based presentations on the Internet is proposed. This architecture is based on the concept of the " lecture object, " a persistent format, independent of the lecture production and viewing technology. The work has been undertaken in the context of the Web Lecture Archive Project, a collaboration of the CERN HR Division Training and De...

Arranging a lecture/tutorial/lab timetable in a large university department or school is a hard problem faced continually in educational establishments. We describe how this problem has been solved in one institution via the use of evolutionary algorithms. The technique extends easily and straightforwardly to any lecture timetabling problem. Although there may be more eeective ways to handle pa...

This research project was part of a planned initiative at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine to incorporate lecture recordings as standard educational support technologies. The goal of an institutional survey was 1) to gather current data about how dental educators across the United States and Canada use lecture recordings; 2) determine dental educators' perceived value and ...