Multimedia Distance Learning Solutions for Surgery

2009 ◽  
pp. 390-398
Author(s):  
Jelena Vucetic
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Text Documents ◽  
Continued Education ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Patient Health ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Medical Disciplines

In the last decade, advances in medicine, telemedicine, computer technologies, information systems, Web applications, robotics and telecommunications have enabled creation of new solutions for training and continued education in various medical disciplines. This chapter presents most recent developments and future trends in distance learning for surgeons, focusing on the following goals: a) Building a comprehensive, world-wide, virtual knowledge base for various disciplines of surgery and telesurgery, including text documents, videos, case studies, expert surgeons’ opinions, and relevant references; b) Building a virtual knowledge base for rare medical cases, conditions and recommended procedures; c) Interactive multimedia simulators for hands-on training in all surgical disciplines; d) Building a worldwide surgical community, which will accelerate the accumulation and sharing of the latest surgical breakthroughs and technological advances throughout the world. Above all these goals, the most important goal is to improve patient health and convenience, and reduce risks of mortality and complications.

scholarly journals Drawing dynamic geometry figures online with natural language for junior high school geometry

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wing-Kwong Wong ◽  
Sheng-Kai Yin ◽  
Chang-Zhe Yang
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Dynamic Geometry ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Web Page ◽  
High School Geometry ◽  
Geometric Figures ◽  
Teachers And Students

<p>This paper presents a tool for drawing dynamic geometric figures by understanding the texts of geometry problems. With the tool, teachers and students can construct dynamic geometric figures on a web page by inputting a geometry problem in natural language. First we need to build the knowledge base for understanding geometry problems. With the help of the knowledge base engine InfoMap, geometric concepts are extracted from an input text. The concepts are then used to output a multistep JavaSketchpad script, which constructs the dynamic geometry figure on a web page. Finally, the system outputs the script as an HTML document that can be visualized and read with an internet browser. Furthermore, a preliminary evaluation of the tool showed that it produced correct dynamic geometric figures for over 90% of problems from textbooks. With such high accuracy, the system produced by this study can support distance learning for geometry students as well as distance learning in producing geometry content for instructors.<br /><br /></p>

scholarly journals Technological advances in cardiac pacing and defibrillation

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Issue 3) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Sok-Sithikun Bun ◽  
Fabien Squara ◽  
Didier Scarlatti ◽  
Guillaume Theodore ◽  
Decebal Gabriel Latcu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Femoral Vein ◽  
Cardiac Pacing ◽  
Half Century ◽  
His Bundle ◽  
His Bundle Pacing ◽  
Subcutaneous Defibrillator ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Recent Developments

Since more than a half century, cardiac pacing and defibrillation represent a field in constant evolution, and they have shown some great technological advances from its conception to its methods of insertion. In this review, the recent developments about the accesses for pacemakers and ICD will be described: the axillary and the femoral vein. The His bundle pacing and the advantages of the entirely subcutaneous defibrillator will also be presented.

scholarly journals Exploring Effective Practices in Managing Distance Learning for Teaching Art and Design in Bahrain

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 66-87
Author(s):  
Sama’a Al Hashimi
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Effective Practices ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
University Of Bahrain ◽  
The University

As universities move to virtual learning, the need to explore the most effective practices for remotely teaching art and design students became very critical. It is very important to examine the strategies universities are using to efficiently transfer skills and knowledge and meet the needs of students through an online learning environment. Art and design classes involve hands-on activities and requirements that cannot easily be met in digital environments. Therefore, the study aims to investigate the creative approaches that art and design educators adopted to transition to remote teaching. The study involved conducting an online focus group with eleven art and design educators at The University of Bahrain to investigate the experiences, perceptions, and the challenges they faced while teaching art and design remotely during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The focus group engaged the educators in a semi-structured discussion in order to gather qualitative data that would allow for a descriptive analysis of their online teaching experiences and the most effective approaches they implemented. Thus, the study is undertaken to determine the most effective practices that can be employed by educators to engage students and enhance the distance learning process in an art and design online environment. The findings suggested that the main challenges that are peculiar to art and design distance learning include difficulty in clearly seeing the value of the colors in a student’s artwork on screen and the unavailability of features that support art and design remote teaching in the currently available learning management systems.

18. Critical criminology

2021 ◽  
pp. 561-589
Author(s):  
Steve Case ◽  
Phil Johnson ◽  
David Manlow ◽  
Roger Smith ◽  
Kate Williams
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Critical Criminology ◽  
Cultural Criminology ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Criminal Justice Systems ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Convict Criminology ◽  
Control Behaviour

This chapter investigates critical criminology. The strands that are widely regarded as most important in the development of critical criminology are labelling perspectives, Marxist-inspired critical theories, power perspectives, and feminist perspectives. The ideas and insights contained within these theories inspired and prepared the ground for more recent developments in the field, including cultural criminology and convict criminology. Critical criminology not only suggests that we make small alterations to criminal justice systems; instead, it requires us to question everything we think we ‘know’ about these systems and the societies and communities in which we live. It questions how and why we control behaviour, looks at power from the perspective of the oppressed or the powerless, and suggests alternative narratives that should be part of our accepted knowledge base.

Web knowledge

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Walton
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Knowledge Representation ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Web Standards ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
The Web

In the introductory chapter of this book, we discussed the means by which knowledge can be made available on the Web. That is, the representation of the knowledge in a form by which it can be automatically processed by a computer. To recap, we identified two essential steps that were deemed necessary to achieve this task: 1. We discussed the need to agree on a suitable structure for the knowledge that we wish to represent. This is achieved through the construction of a semantic network, which defines the main concepts of the knowledge, and the relationships between these concepts. We presented an example network that contained the main concepts to differentiate between kinds of cameras. Our network is a conceptualization, or an abstract view of a small part of the world. A conceptualization is defined formally in an ontology, which is in essence a vocabulary for knowledge representation. 2. We discussed the construction of a knowledge base, which is a store of knowledge about a domain in machine-processable form; essentially a database of knowledge. A knowledge base is constructed through the classification of a body of information according to an ontology. The result will be a store of facts and rules that describe the domain. Our example described the classification of different camera features to form a knowledge base. The knowledge base is expressed formally in the language of the ontology over which it is defined. In this chapter we elaborate on these two steps to show how we can define ontologies and knowledge bases specifically for the Web. This will enable us to construct Semantic Web applications that make use of this knowledge. The chapter is devoted to a detailed explanation of the syntax and pragmatics of the RDF, RDFS, and OWL Semantic Web standards. The resource description framework (RDF) is an established standard for knowledge representation on the Web. Taken together with the associated RDF Schema (RDFS) standard, we have a language for representing simple ontologies and knowledge bases on the Web.

scholarly journals High-throughput phenotyping in cotton: a review

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irish Lorraine B. PABUAYON ◽  
Yazhou SUN ◽  
Wenxuan GUO ◽  
Glen L. RITCHIE
Keyword(s):  
High Throughput ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Growth Yield ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Phenotypic Traits ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
High Throughput Phenotyping

Abstract Recent technological advances in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) phenotyping have offered tools to improve the efficiency of data collection and analysis. High-throughput phenotyping (HTP) is a non-destructive and rapid approach of monitoring and measuring multiple phenotypic traits related to the growth, yield, and adaptation to biotic or abiotic stress. Researchers have conducted extensive experiments on HTP and developed techniques including spectral, fluorescence, thermal, and three-dimensional imaging to measure the morphological, physiological, and pathological resistance traits of cotton. In addition, ground-based and aerial-based platforms were also developed to aid in the implementation of these HTP systems. This review paper highlights the techniques and recent developments for HTP in cotton, reviews the potential applications according to morphological and physiological traits of cotton, and compares the advantages and limitations of these HTP systems when used in cotton cropping systems. Overall, the use of HTP has generated many opportunities to accurately and efficiently measure and analyze diverse traits of cotton. However, because of its relative novelty, HTP has some limitations that constrains the ability to take full advantage of what it can offer. These challenges need to be addressed to increase the accuracy and utility of HTP, which can be done by integrating analytical techniques for big data and continuous advances in imaging.

Hands-On Laboratory Experiments in Flexible and Distance Learning

2001 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Gillet ◽  
H.A. Latchman ◽  
Ch. Salzmann ◽  
O.D. Crisalle
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Hands On

Hands-on at a Distance: Evaluation of a Temperature and Heat Distance Learning Course

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca McNall Krall ◽  
Joseph P. Straley ◽  
Sally A. Shafer ◽  
Jeffrey L. Osborn
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Hands On

scholarly journals Formalization of Technological Knowledge in the Field of Metallurgy using Document Classification Tools Supported with Semantic Techniques

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 715-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Regulski
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Latent Semantic Indexing ◽  
Semantic Knowledge ◽  
Technological Knowledge ◽  
Semantic Integration ◽  
Semantic Indexing ◽  
Text Documents ◽  
Semantic Techniques ◽  
Semantic Knowledge Base

AbstractThe process of knowledge formalization is an essential part of decision support systems development. Creating a technological knowledge base in the field of metallurgy encountered problems in acquisition and codifying reusable computer artifacts based on text documents. The aim of the work was to adapt the algorithms for classification of documents and to develop a method of semantic integration of a created repository. Author used artificial intelligence tools: latent semantic indexing, rough sets, association rules learning and ontologies as a tool for integration. The developed methodology allowed for the creation of semantic knowledge base on the basis of documents in natural language in the field of metallurgy.

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