In the last decade, several new haptic devices have been developed, contributing to definition of more realistic virtual environments. An overview on this topic requires a description various technologies employed in building such devices, and their application domains. This survey describes current technology underlying based concept “wearability level”. More than 90 newly develo...

Decision making has evolved throughout the years, nowadays harnessing massive amounts and types of data through unprecedented capabilities science, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence. This potentially led to higher quality more informed decisions based on collaborative rationality between humans machines, no longer bounded by cognitive capacity limited each their own. However,...

There has been much recent discussion about student engagement in higher education, and in the last few years a number of authors have undertaken extensive international research on the topic, which has been summarized in a number of literature reviews. However, to date, there has been relatively little in-depth exploration of student engagement in problem-based learning (PBL) or the impact of ...

Though many general practitioners (GPs) now take part in audit, there is still concern about the extent to which participation in audit leads to improvements in practice. Improved methods are needed for the incorporation of research evidence into criteria for use in audit. In this paper, a six-stage systematic method is described for developing audit protocols containing prioritized evidence-ba...

In the following a brief commentary is given on a new European project that aims to provide the European countries with recommendations for the care of children and yound adults with rheumatic diseases. These recommendations will be based on surveys sent to PRINTO members and systematic literature reviews. Surveys on current local standard of care and best practice will be send to PRINTO member...