Introduction. Practicing medicine needs correct, up to date and easy to use information resources. This study is designed to investigate different aspects of the resources used by internal medicine attending physicians, residents and interns. Methods. All attendings (n: 43), residents (n: 23) and interns (n: 33) of internal medicine ward were, after receiving a brief introduction about the ai...

This paper reports on an investigation of mathematics curriculum documents, commonly used textbooks and teacher ‘curricular practice’ with respect to educational traditions in France and Norway. The study has helped to develop a deeper understanding of (1) educational traditions in France and Norway; (2) the ways the educational traditions permeate the system, from policy documents through text...

Offensive security—or, in plain English, the practice of exploitation—has greatly enhanced our understanding of what it means for computers to be trustworthy. Having grown from hacker conventions that fit into a single room into a distinct engineering discipline in all but the name, offensive computing has so far been content with a jargon and an informal “hacker curriculum”. Now that it is unm...

In order to automate the process of transforming figures in textbooks into tactile format, the types of the figures play an important role in deciding what process to go through. In this paper, we explore the problem of how to train an accurate Support Vector Machine classifier that can determine whether an image belongs to a certain figure type, using various feature extraction methods. We con...

The dream of an electronic textbook has been actively pursued for at least two decades. Goals include (i) improving exposition through a richer collection of technologies than are available through print textbooks, and (ii) increase student engagement with the material, in order to get them to learn at a higher level in Bloom’s taxonomy (Naps et al., 2002). Instead of merely viewing material, w...

This research examines the frameworks used by Computer Science and Information Systems students at the conclusion of their first semester of study of Software Engineering topics. A questionnaire listing 64 Software Engineering concepts was given to students upon completion of their first Software Engineering course. This survey was given to samples of students at three universities. To identify...

We introduce a new architecture for e-textbooks which contains two navigational aids: an index and a concept map. We report results from an evaluation in a university setting with 99 students. The interaction sequences of the users were captured during the user study. We found several clusters of user interaction types in our data. Three separate user types were identified based on the interact...

Music textbooks of PMP is a set mature teaching materials widely used in music course elementary education China. The study the theory knowledge this can not only help teachers primary and secondary schools to more deeply understand compiling spirit textbooks, but also have great significance cultivation talents normal universities. Through combing involved, paper makes brief summary characteri...

Bohr's model of the atom is considered to be important by general chemistry textbooks. A major shortcoming of this model was that it could not explain the spectra of atoms containing more than one electron. In order to increase the explanatory power of the model, Sommerfeld hypothesized the existence of elliptical orbits. This study has the following objectives: 1) Formulation of criteria based...