New twist on marshmallow test: Kids depend on each other for self control
"New twist on marshmallow test: Kids depend on each other for self control: Simply placing kids in a cooperative environment boosts the ability to resist temptation. ... In the 1970s, the late psychologist Walter Mischel explored the importance of the ability to delay gratification as a child to one's...
Source: arstechnica.com
Virtual reality technology for teaching neurosurgery of skull base tumor
Virtual reality technology for teaching neurosurgery of skull base tumor: Neurosurgery represents one of the most challenging and delicate of any surgical procedure. Skull base tumors in particular oftentimes present as a very technically difficult procedures in the setting of neurosurgical teaching....
Source: biomedcentral.com
Moore's outcomes framework and related papers
Outcomes-based planning for CME (Continuing Medical Education) often cites Donald Moore, Professor of Medical Education at Vanderbilt University. In 2009 he published an outcomes framework for CME (1) - which expanded George Miller's 1990 competency pyramid (2) - followed by a more detailed explanation...
Source: agnate.co.uk
Media predictions for 2020 from BBC's Amol Rajan
Amol Rajan's 9 media predictions for 2020: Could we see streamageddon, eco-browsing, the break-up of Amazon and a new owner for ITV? "The data shows we really are living through the most extraordinarily peaceful, prosperous, wealthy, healthy, safe period in human history. There is strong evidence to...
Source: bbc.com
Earliest roasted root vegetables found in 170,000-year-old cave dirt: Charred fragments found in a cave in southern Africa
Earliest roasted root vegetables found in 170,000-year-old cave dirt: Charred fragments found in a cave in southern Africa suggest that the real “paleo diet” included lots of roasted root vegetables that were rich in carbohydrates
Source: newscientist.com
Mountain walker captures rare Brocken spectre: Rhys Pleming and his friend captured pictures of the rare weather phenomenon
Mountain walker captures rare Brocken spectre: Rhys Pleming and his friend captured pictures of the rare weather phenomenon on New Year's Day.
Source: bbc.com
Early warning signals for critical transitions in a thermoacoustic system:
Early warning signals for critical transitions in a thermoacoustic system: Dynamical systems can undergo critical transitions where the system suddenly shifts from one stable state to another at a critical threshold called the tipping point. The decrease in recovery rate to equilibrium (critical slowing...
Source: nature.com
Milasen - a drug developed for a single patient.
Patient-Customized Oligonucleotide Therapy for a Rare Genetic Disease | NEJM: Summary Genome sequencing is often pivotal in the diagnosis of rare diseases, but many of these conditions lack specific treatments. We describe how molecular diagnosis of a rare, fatal neurodegenerative condition led to the...
Source: nejm.org
Australia Rolls Out AI-Powered Phone Detection Road Cameras - ExtremeTech: The Australian state of New South Wales is the
Australia Rolls Out AI-Powered Phone Detection Road Cameras - ExtremeTech: The Australian state of New South Wales is the first in the world to deploy phone detection cameras on its roads.
Source: extremetech.com
Drugmaker to Test Machine Learning to Prevent Drug Shortages: Germany-based Merck plans to use analytics and machine learning
Drugmaker to Test Machine Learning to Prevent Drug Shortages: Germany-based Merck plans to use analytics and machine learning to predict and prevent drug shortages, a move that could also save it money.
Source: wsj.com
HERhealth ... Increasing the ability of low-income women to take charge of their health
HERhealth™ | Programs | HERproject "Women working in global supply chains, many of whom are young and undereducated migrants, have limited health knowledge and often lack access to critical health services and products."
Source: herproject.org
A Promising Solar Energy Breakthrough Just Achieved 1,000-Degree Heat From Sunlight: A new startup backed by Bill Gates
A Promising Solar Energy Breakthrough Just Achieved 1,000-Degree Heat From Sunlight: A new startup backed by Bill Gates says it has managed to harness solar energy to greater effect than ever before, generating enough heat from a field of mirrored panels to drive the production of cement, steel and glass...
Source: sciencealert.com
'If you think competition is hard, you should try collaboration.'
Leading for integrated care: This report explores the progress, challenges and opportunities the move towards greater integration presents, through interviews with 16 people leading or chairing an integrated care system or sustainability and transformation partnership. "Under current plans all parts...
Source: kingsfund.org.uk
Effect of alcohol on promise making - a prisoner
An Economic Analysis of Business Drinking: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment
“Our GAAM (guilt aversion and alcohol myopia) model predicts that intoxication increases promise-making but has no effect on promise-breaking. We test these predictions using a prisoner’s dilemma game with pre-play...
Source: gmu.edu
Barbara Liskov - the architect of modern algorithms.
The Architect of Modern Algorithm. "Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone." She talks about her experience and views of AI, the internet, being a woman in computer science (women...
Source: quantamagazine.org
Micro-credientials - the toy model and other perspectives.
25 Years of EdTech: 2019 – Micro-credentials.
"... micro-credentials represent the latest chapter in the attempt to make the shape of higher education more amorphous and flexible. In this, I am in favour of them, because if you want education to be inclusive and diverse then it needs to come in...
Source: edtechie.net
Autonomy, Belonging, Competence. GMC reports on the ABC of wellbeing.
Caring for doctors Caring for patients: An independent report into the wellbeing of UK medical students and doctors. "In 2018 we commissioned Professor Michael West and Dame Denise Coia, to carry out a UK-wide review to help tackle the causes of poor wellbeing faced by medical students and doctors.
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Source: gmc-uk.org
German Digital Healthcare Act promotes digital health.
German Digital Healthcare Act - Frontiers Health: Bundestag adopts law on reimbursement for digital health application in Germany. "health apps, which can help patients to manage a diagnosed medical condition, can from January 2020 onwards be prescribed by their doctors. The costs are borne by the statutory...
Source: frontiers.health
Open is Eating the World: What Source Code and Science Have in Common.
"Open is Eating the World: What Source Code and Science Have in Common: In 2011, Marc Andreessen said that software is eating the world, predicting that technology companies would continue to significantly disrupt an increasingly broad range of industries. Since then, publishers have embraced technology....
Source: sspnet.org
Evaluation of Mobile Apps Targeted at Patients With Spondyloarthritis for Disease Monitoring: Systematic App Search.
Evaluation of Mobile Apps Targeted at Patients With Spondyloarthritis for Disease Monitoring. "A total of 1253 apps were identified in the app stores, and 5 apps met the criteria and were further analyzed. Moreover, 2 apps (MySpA and Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis...
Source: nih.gov
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