scholarly journals Biomedical and Health Informatics Education – the IMIA Years

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (S 01) ◽  
pp. S92-S102 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Mantas
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
English Language ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Origin Time ◽  
Manual Selection ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Selection Of

Summary Objective: This paper presents the development of medical informatics education during the years from the establishment of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) until today. Method: A search in the literature was performed using search engines and appropriate keywords as well as a manual selection of papers. The search covered English language papers and was limited to search on papers title and abstract only. Results: The aggregated papers were analyzed on the basis of the subject area, origin, time span, and curriculum development, and conclusions were drawn. Conclusions: From the results, it is evident that IMIA has played a major role in comparing and integrating the Biomedical and Health Informatics educational efforts across the different levels of education and the regional distribution of educators and institutions. A large selection of references is presented facilitating future work on the field of education in biomedical and health informatics.

An evaluation of information sources for current awareness on occupational diseases

1986 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 247-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Price ◽  
Rosemary A. Burley
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
English Language ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Selection Of

An evaluative study of a selection of primary and sec ondary information sources of potential use for current aware ness in the field of occupational diseases is presented. This study identifies the more important English language primary sources of occupational diseases research information. Re search studies in the field of occupational diseases, however, are scattered widely in the medical literature. This study com pares the usefulness of a variety of secondary sources as current awareness tools for bringing together this widely scattered information. Several secondary sources are useful but, despite considerable overlap between these sources, no single source provides comprehensive coverage of the subject field. Scanning of a number of primary sources together with several secondary sources is recommended as the best means of keeping abreast of the latest research information in this subject area.

What is English? Who decides? An interview with Lisa Scherff

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (6) ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
Rafael Heller
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Language Arts ◽  
English Language ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
High School English ◽  
College Professors ◽  
Arts Curriculum ◽  
The Subject

In this month’s interview, Kappan’s editor talks with high school English teacher and researcher Lisa Scherff about the ongoing struggle over who gets to define the English language arts curriculum. Dating back to the creation of the subject area, more than a century ago, classroom teachers have advocated for a varied course of study that helps students use language more effectively across a range of contexts. However, explains Scherff, they have always had to contend with college professors, textbook publishers, school boards, and others who’ve sought to constrain the curriculum.

scholarly journals Special Section on Ethics in Health Informatics

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (01) ◽  
pp. 077-080
Author(s):  
Carolyn Petersen ◽  
Vignesh Subbian ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Editorial Committee ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Applied Informatics ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
Final Selection ◽  
Selection Of

Summary Objective: To summarize significant research contributions on ethics in medical informatics published in 2019. Methods: An extensive search using PubMed/Medline was conducted to identify the scientific contributions published in 2019 that address ethics issues in medical informatics. The selection process comprised three steps: 1) 15 candidate best papers were first selected by the two section editors; 2) external reviewers from internationally renowned research teams reviewed each candidate best paper; and 3) the final selection of three best papers was conducted by the editorial committee of the Yearbook. Results: The three selected best papers explore timely issues of concern to the community and demonstrate how ethics considerations influence applied informatics. Conclusion: With regard to ethics in informatics, data sharing and privacy remain primary areas of concern. Ethics issues related to the development and implementation of artificial intelligence is an emerging topic of interest.

Contested Encounters

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-262
Author(s):  
Karen L. Harris
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Secondary English ◽  
Literature Overview ◽  
English Language Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Contact ◽  
Language Literature ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract This article focuses on China’s initial encounter with the African continent from the perspective of a select literature overview. It reflects on the very earliest contacts between dynastic China and ancient Africa and shows that the current contestation in the Western media as well as literature over this more recent contact is not new. Given the dearth and disparate nature of the information on these first encounters, it does this through the lens of what has been written on the subject of the speculated first contact in a selection of secondary English-language literature. It does so by considering the prevalence of such literature in three distinct periods: prior to 1949; from 1950 to 1990; and a selection of research published thereafter. It shows that China’s encounter with Africa reaches far back into the history of the continent, but more importantly so does the volatile contestation surrounding the contemporary contact.

scholarly journals AUDITORY VS VISUAL STRATEGIES AMONG KURDISH LEARNERS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
Areen Ahmed Muhammed
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Far East ◽  
Teaching Styles ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Teaching Methodologies ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common

When it comes to the case of Kurdish universities regarding teaching styles and methodologies plenty of obstacles and barriers anyone can face not only due to the low level of the majority of the students; but also other factors like religion, interest, grading system, and most importantly low number of references on the subjects area can be the core cause of the issue. One of those points which drove the researcher to write on the common issue was due to the reason that the researcher could not find enough and adequate sources on the subject area; hence, the researcher tried to enrich the referencing system of Kurdish studies of English language in one hand and provide and broaden the horizon of other nationalities regarding Kurdish EFL learners of English and in English taught programs. As a matter of fact, through decades many scholars have been conducting studies on different teaching methodologies and they provided up to four different styles of language teaching. Apart from that, many other linguists enlightened their studies on Far East Asian countries or European. Even if some Middle Eastern studies were taken into consideration; but still, none can be found in the case of Kurdish university students. The current paper was conducted on English department of Charmo University with a total number of 34 participants from three different stages. 

scholarly journals Cultural-Historical Foundations of School Course in Biology

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
L.N. Suchorukova ◽  
E.I. Isaev
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
General Education ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Biological Literacy ◽  
Selection Of

The article analyzes the provisions of the cultural-historical psychology that serve as a theoretical and methodological basis for the practice of general education in biology. International monitoring of educational achievements reveals low biological literacy of Russian schoolchildren. The authors see the main reason in the insufficiently thought-out selection of the subject content. In middle school courses, it is mostly empirical, reduced to the study of the structure and functions of organisms and their diversity. In high school courses, it is theoretical, but theoretical concepts are given in a ready-made form, are not sufficiently interconnected and are often reduced to dictionary definitions, which negatively affects the development of cognitive and personal abilities of students. Currently, general biological education is being reformed, and the concentric construction of the subject content is being replaced with a linear one, which completely eliminates theoretical concepts from the middle school courses. The authors see the solution to the problem in updating the content of the school course in biology. As a methodological basis for the selection of content, a system approach is considered, the provisions of which were implemented by L.S. Vygotsky in the construction of the subject area of the cultural-historical psychology. Vygotsky’s ideas about developmental learning and their further elaboration in the general psychological and psychological-pedagogical theory of activity are suggested as a theoretical basis for the organization of the educational process. Special attention is paid to the theory of learning activity developed in the works of D.B. Elkonin, V.V. Davydov, their disciples and followers. The paper presents the concept of the content for the school course in biology and describes the experience of its implementation.

scholarly journals Knowledge construction about port performance evaluation: An international literature analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 720
Author(s):  
Karine Somensi ◽  
Sandra Ensslin ◽  
Ademar Dutra ◽  
Leonardo Ensslin ◽  
Vinicius Dezem
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
English Language ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Systemic Analysis ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Selection Of

Purpose: This study aims at identifying and analyzing the characteristics of international scientific research that address the literature fragment referring to the Port Performance Evaluation to identify the existence of theoretical alignment of Performance Evaluation notion, as an area of knowledge, with practical area stage, the Port Performance Evaluation.Design/Methodology/Approach: The approach the problem, this paper makes use of qualitative research, since it analyzes the Bibliographical Portfolio characteristics related to the Performance Evaluation Port. The strategy adopted was action research where the authors through their analysis and interpretation made the selection of the  Bibliographical Portfolio.Findings: From the analyzed literature fragment it was possible to identify some misalignment between what has been pointed out in the literature regarding the management practices in the port sector. This discrepancy refers to the management practices that are ignored by port managers, which implies the loss of opportunities and may even come to jeopardize the organization's performance.Research limitations/implications: The literature search was restricted to articles written in the English language, published in indexed scientific journals in the selected databases (ii) the restriction by the time limit of articles published after the year 2000; (iii) the generation of knowledge based on the characteristics selected by the researchers and (iv) the analysis of BP articles regarding the  by the judgment and interpretation of this research authors. It is suggested for future work the expanding this research to other databases, other languages, other features, and continuity of this investigation with the development of "systemic analysis' and 'identifying research opportunities' stages through ProKnow-C.Originality/value: Although two similar works have been developed in the same area of research in 2015, the results achieved have contributed to the advancement of research Port Performance Evaluation, once extended the time horizon, the databases used for research and variables.

scholarly journals Reconstructing Democracy: Current Thinking and New Directions

2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 559-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Saward
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Theory ◽  
English Language ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Democratic Polity ◽  
Deliberative Politics ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Direct Models ◽  
Selection Of

Today's Democratic Theory Offers Sketches Of Tomorrow's democratic polity. How innovative, and how compelling, are the visions it offers us? This article explores possible democratic futures by scanning a selection of today's key democratic innovations – cosmopolitan, deliberative, ‘politics of presence’, ecological, associative and party-based direct models – in the light of a set of six central issues useful for examining the core aspects of democratic theories. It concludes by suggesting a way forward in which insights from diverse innovations might helpfully be accommodated within an overarching framework. Overall, it represents a deliberate attempt at a bird's eye view of the subject; the aim is to be suggestive rather than definitive. The scope of the analysis is broad but quite strictly qualified in the following ways: the six innovative ideas scrutinized arise from, and largely address, countries of the rich North rather than the developing South; they do not exhaust the range of current innovations in democratic theory; and they are based largely on English-language sources.

scholarly journals DISCOURSE INVESTIGATION OF TEXTS OF ENGLISH TOURIST GUIDEBOOKS TO UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Pryma
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
English Language ◽  
Modal Verbs ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Online Travel ◽  
Linguistic Structures ◽  
Tourist Guides ◽  
Selection Of

The research has been done within the framework of modern communicatively oriented linguistic paradigm. The article is devoted to the brief review of the texts of English-language tourist guides to Ukraine in terms of discursive research. The material of the analysis was electronic English-language tourist guides to Ukraine. The subject of the research is a discursive analysis of texts published on the pages of electronic guidebooks and the selection of separate examples. The study of the general principles of discourse, in particular tourism discourse, found out that some of its characteristics coincide with advertising discourse, and are targeted at attracting attention, encouraging interest, the emergence of unbridled desire and, finally, encourage action (in this case – tourist travel). The use of certain linguistic structures awakens in the readers’ imagination specific images - "schemata" - meaning "scheme", "template", "schematics". While conducting the study, we noticed that the information in the tourist guides appears as an additional for travelers, transmitted by modal verbs, in particular. Since tourism involves travelling in space and time, many online travel guides present cultural heritage as the primary means of attracting tourists to a particular country or region. Modern researchers believe that among the motives, which are necessarily recorded in tourist texts, there are the following ones: authenticity; search for new, unfamiliar and contrasting worlds. Verbal and non-verbal units of the English-language tourist texts are aimed at forming a complex attractive image of the country-place of rest. The results of the study will be useful in the further study of tourism discourse during lectures and practical classes.

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