Cranial nerve (CN) knowledge is essential for students in health professions. Gestures and body movements (e.g., mime) have been shown to improve cognition and satisfaction with anatomy teaching. The aim of this pilot study was to compare the effectiveness of didactic lecturing with that of miming lecturing for student learning of the CNs. The research design involved exposure of the same group...

ON THE COVER Associate professor Kerry Dickson and biomedical science students at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia are showing the miming actions used as mnemonics for teaching each of the 12 cranial nerves. In this issue of ASE, Kerry Dickson and Bruce Stephens describe these actions (for example, CN II: hands forming tunnels in front of the eyes to represent vision) and the effect ...

World Wide Web is growing at a very fast pace and makes a lot of information available to the public. Search engines used conventional methods to retrieve information on the Web; however, the search results of these engines are still able to be refined and their accuracy is not high enough. One of the methods for web mining is evolutionary algorithms which search according to the user interests...

Web usage mining has been a major component of management strategy to enhance organizational analysis and decision. The literature on Web usage mining that deals with strategies and technologies for effectively employing Web usage mining is quite vast. In recent years, E-government has received much attention from researchers and practitioners. Huge amounts of user access data are produced in E...

Scene is a flexible system in which users can produce monolithic systems or "unix style" piped systems consisting of a number of components each providing one operation. They can also use either of the two standalone systems provided. The software has been developed on a Sun 3/50 system miming SunOS 3.5. It is written in C and, apart from the display and device specific functions, would be easi...

In the last decades, the incidence of skin cancer is in continuous growth, but the mortality remains at the same level thanks to the new imaging diagnosis methods and surgical treatment. A real problem regarding differential diagnosis between cutaneous melanoma and non-melanotic skin tumor appear, despite advanced technologies, which have a major impact on treatment management. We reported two ...