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INTRODUCTION In 2015, according to the United Nations report, the world is facing an aging population. The number of people aged 60 years or more will rise to 56.00% by 2030 or double by 2050 (Escobar, 2011). One of the main fatalities throughout the world is cardiovascular ailments. The human cardiovascular system weakens as we grow older and it is more likely to suffer from arrhythmias. A ventricular arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat of ventricular rhythm. If not treated in time, it c...

The Internet and the Web have become the framework to publish and consume all types of multimedia contents and resources, [1]. The impact of this new digital world has transformed the software industry, [2], and also been reflected in educational environments and more now with the tendency of the remote activities. The Web provides a wide range of resources and services, one of them focused on the teaching-learning process, but it also causes several challenges. Educators must design new str...

This dissertation tested whether learning could be improved for students of Spanish language background through a Mastery Learning (ML) approach. It was hypothesized that higher levels of achievement and more positive affect could occur in an ML classroom. Phase I of the study compared two instructional conditions: Mastery Learning and conventional. Because of implementation problems in Phase I, Phase II used a Mastery Learning condition only. In each phase, Pre and Posttests, Form...

The case-based learning (CBL) approach is an andragogical (adult teaching/ learning) approach that examines contextualised questions which are based upon clinical or non-clinical ‘real-life’ problems. In CBL, a structured concept is presented in a standardised case format where each student exposed to the case has a clear understanding of the issues to be solved (Lunney 2008). CBL uses a guided inquiry method and provides more structure during small-group sessions. Hayward and Cai...

Conceptual clustering [3] is an advanced data mining technique that clusters data into clusters associated with conceptual representations, or conceptual clusters. Concept hierarchy can then be constructed from the conceptual clusters. However, traditional conceptual clustering techniques can only work on specific data types such as nominal and numeric. In addition, the concept hierarchy is mostly in a tree-like structure which is unable to support the representation of multiple inheritanc...

The cross-market transmission of financial crisis has been a major interest over the last decade. The financial systems have witnessed numerous financial and currency crises, where most of them with regional or even global consequences, such as the 1987 Wall Street crash, the 1992 ERM collapse, the 1994 Mexican pesos crisis, the 1997 “Asian Flu”, the 1998 “Russian Cold”, the 1999 Brazilian devaluation, the 2000 Internet bubble burst, and the default crisis in Argentina of July 200...

T HE development of robotic mobility assistants is a major research area with great impact on society. The constant increase of aged population in recent years has created new challenges in the healthcare sector, causing great difficulties for the existing care and nursing staff to keep up with these evolving needs. The necessity for robotic assistants that will help with elderly mobility and rehabilitation is clear. It has been now close to twenty years since the first robotic rollators...

Over the past 8 years, the science education profession has achieved two important milestones: the Project 2061 Benchmarks for Science Literacy (American Academy for the Advancement of Science [AAAS], 1993) and the National Science Education Standards (National Research Council [NRC], 1996). With the advent of these documents, arguments over what science content students should learn have subsided. Additionally, 49 states now have adopted their own science education content standards, d...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has recognized the importance of residents understanding charting and coding by promoting educational activities involving charting and coding in the core competency “system-based practice (SBP).” 1 Competency in SBP requires that residents “demonstrate an awareness of and a responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care.” 2 Despite this including charting and coding skills, numerous studies suggest...

The Van Andel Institute Graduate School in Grand Rapids, MI, was founded in 2005 as a doctorate training program housed within an independent biomedical research institute. The school’s mission is to train future leaders in the cellular, molecular and genetic biology of human disease, with an emphasis on translating such research into effective clinical applications. The principles underlying the new doctorate program’s design are consistent with those arising from the Carnegie In...

Setting the Standard for Project Based Learning (PjBL) is both the title and intention of the book authored by John Larmer, John Mergendollar, and Suzie Boss. Their subtitle claims that PjBL is “a proven approach to rigorous classroom instruction.” This is supported by a chapter devoted to reviewing PjBL research, followed by chapters on designing, managing, and leading PjBL. At the outset, Larmer, Mergendollar, and Boss list the benefits of PjBL for students, teachers, and admi...

Background: The Rey Complex Figure Test (RCFT) has been widely used to evaluate neurocognitive functions in various clinical groups with a broad range of ages. However, despite its usefulness, the scoring method is as complex as the

Faculties globally are faced with determining how to develop academic curriculum and present course materials so that students not only gain knowledge of the discipline, but also become self-directed learners who develop relevant skills they can apply in their future careers. The broad-based method as educational practice takes a holistic and comprehensive approach to teaching and learning. Broad based methods do not agree with the assumption that various important aspects of benefits ...

Fatigue durability and inspection planning have long been important issues in the design and scheduled inspection of welded offshore structures. For welded structures subjected to cyclic repetitive loading, the admissible stresses in the vicinity of welded joints are relatively low due to the joints vulnerability to fatigue damage. Usually, structures have to be designed for a finite life with an accepted probability of failure based on the S–N approach. Hence, cracks may propagate and be...

The support vector machine (SVM) method is, in its origin, binary. It is based on the principle of separation between the samples of tow classes, one positive and one negative. In this form, the SVM method is very successful in several areas of application given the precision it offers. In practice, we find more applications with multi-class problems, hence the need to extend the binary model to meet multi-class problems. Existing methods currently try mainly to optimize two phases: a trai...

Nowadays, there is a fast growing use of information technology (IT) in education where Higher Education Institutions are, to a certain extent, responsible for opening new frontiers by accepting new challenges and foreseeing the future. In the last decade, Higher Education in general has experienced profound changes mainly driven by IT, which includes not only the pedagogical processes, but also management and administrative processes that became totally dependent on computers,...

INTRODUCTION There is a prevalent issue nowadays that learners of science and engineering lack the professional understanding and abilities of communication between parts and devices. Students cannot exercise and obtain data with the theory and research methods. Among some technical colleges, these issues are becoming more prominent. [1] The e-learning environment is seen as a significant resource for helping ancient traditional formats of learning and transforming the nature of educa...

The unexpected arrival of COVID-19 pandemic has forced a massive shift in nursing education [1]. In order to continue the teaching and learning while complying with prevention and control guidelines and recommendations issued by World Health Organization (WHO) and government agencies, many educational institutions relocated from traditional face-to-face to virtual teaching and learning environments [2]. Fortunately, the positive acceptance and attitude towards online education in...

A critical realist approach to knowledge: implications for evidence-based practice in and beyond nursing This paper will identify some of the key conceptual tools of a critical realist approach to knowledge. I will then apply these principles to some of the competing epistemologies that are prevalent within nursing. There are broadly two approaches which are sometimes distinct from each other and sometimes inter-related. On one side, there is the view that all healthcare interventions should...

Through community partnerships, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing’s Wald Community Nursing Center has established accessible health centers for the uninsured. Networking with other community-based service providers to offer more comprehensive services to this underserved population has increased access and utilization of care. The unexpected high rate of hepatitis C (HCV) infection found in this population challenged Wald to develop new strategies for diagnosing and facil...