Evaluating competencies achieved by students within a subject and its different topics is multivariable complex task whose outcome should provide actual information on their evolution. A relevant feature when continuous assessment (CA) rules this evaluation to track learning process so that pertinent feedforward may be harnessed proactively promote improvement required. As performed via number ...

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...

In this presentation we describe a methodology we have adopted for coding the semantic structure of a historical document and the resulting semantic model. To do this, we adapted currently available methodologies for ontology engineering to the context of semantic document coding. Using Protégé-2000 we then used this methodology to develop a formal ontological model and finally to encode a hist...

Of all the clinical competencies, the least understood are Systems-Based Practice and Practice-Based Learning and Improvement. With a shift to competency-based education and evaluation across the spectrum of surgical education and practice, a clear understanding of the power and utility of each competency is paramount. Health care operates as a complex adaptive system, with dynamics foreign to ...

Carotid artery stenting (CAS) has become an integral part of the therapeutic armamentarium offered by cardiovascular medicine programs for the prevention of stroke. The purpose of this expert consensus statement is to provide physician training and credentialing guidance to facilitate the safe and effective incorporation of CAS into clinical practice within these programs. Since publication of ...

The reason for genetic exchange remains a crucial question in evolutionary biology. Acinetobacter baylyi strain ADP1 is a highly competent and recombinogenic bacterium. We compared the parallel evolution of wild-type and engineered noncompetent lineages of A. baylyi in the laboratory. If transformability were to result in an evolutionary benefit, it was expected that competent lineages would ad...

The present study proposes a seven-step method for the project management competency map. Additionally, the method helps to evaluate and design evolution trajectories based on organisational experience and challenges. This methodological approach merges literature reviews with qualitative and quantitative research methods. Data were collected in a large Brazilian engineering company through the...

Time has become an integral part of our understanding of the context of organizations, particularly as the pace of change in business models continues to mirror the relatively fast evolution of technology. The importance of time is particularly magnified in the social context of organizational creativity, as innovation has become the key strategic orientation of organizations attempting to achi...