In FutureLearn's MOOCs, Conversation Powers Learning at Massive Scale: Personalized learning has to get social. Students
In FutureLearn's MOOCs, Conversation Powers Learning at Massive Scale: Personalized learning has to get social. Students learn better through conversation. Nice overview of FutureLearn's approach to MOOCs by Professor Mike Sharples highlighting the potential of personalization of learning through conversation....
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AI Can Help Patients Recover Ability to Stand and Walk: Neural nets and robotic harnesses can aid patients after spinal
AI Can Help Patients Recover Ability to Stand and Walk: Neural nets and robotic harnesses can aid patients after spinal cord injury, stroke. "After the volunteers walked roughly 20 meters using the neurorobotic
platform to familiarize themselves with the apparatus, three patients
with spinal cord...
Source: ieee.org
"New Software Diagnoses Cardiac Arrhythmias from ECGs Better Than Cardiologists |: Stanford researchers claim to have developed
"New Software Diagnoses Cardiac Arrhythmias from ECGs Better Than Cardiologists |: Stanford researchers claim to have developed an algorithm that "exceeds the performance of board certified cardiologists in detecting a wide range of heart arrhythmias from electrocardiograms [ECG] recorded with a single-lead...
Source: medgadget.com
Cardiologs Cloud-Based Software FDA Cleared to Spot Arrhythmias in ECGs |: Cardiologs, a company based in Paris, France,
Cardiologs Cloud-Based Software FDA Cleared to Spot Arrhythmias in ECGs |: Cardiologs, a company based in Paris, France, won FDA clearance for its software that analyzes electrocardiograms (ECG) for signs of cardiac arrhythmias. T
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Ghana converts obsolete telecomms dish into radio telescope - physicsworld.com "Scientists in Ghana have successfully converted
Ghana converts obsolete telecomms dish into radio telescope - physicsworld.com "Scientists in Ghana have successfully converted a communications antenna into a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio telescope. The country is the first partner of the African VLBI Network (AVN) to complete a full...
Source: physicsworld.com
IBM's AI can predict schizophrenia by looking at the brain's blood flow
IBM's AI can predict schizophrenia by looking at the brain's blood flow
Source: engadget.com
Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies
"The Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) Consortium has refined its recommendations about the clinical and pathologic diagnosis of DLB, updating the previous report, which has been in widespread use for the last decade. The revised DLB consensus criteria now distinguish clearly between clinical features...
Source: neurology.org
Unraveling the IT Productivity Paradox — Lessons for Health Care — NEJM: Good article from RAND Corporation. There
Unraveling the IT Productivity Paradox — Lessons for Health Care — NEJM: Good article from RAND Corporation. There is ongoing debate about the wisdom of the $27 billion federal investment driving the adoption of health information technology (IT) under the Health Information Technology for Economic...
Source: nejm.org
Race vs Burden in Understanding Health Equity: To the Editor Dr Kindig discussed the concepts of rate and burden in terms
Race vs Burden in Understanding Health Equity: To the Editor Dr Kindig discussed the concepts of rate and burden in terms of population health equity. We question several of the concepts put forth in his Viewpoint.1 Kindig’s proposition that the statistical burden of white health inequity has been...
Source: jamanetwork.com
Patterns of change and continuity in ochre use during the late Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: The Porc-Epic Cave
Patterns of change and continuity in ochre use during the late Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: The Porc-Epic Cave record: Ochre is found at numerous Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites and plays a key role in early modern human archaeology. Here we analyse the largest known East African MSA ochre assemblage,...
Source: plos.org
DEcentralised Citizens Owned Data Ecosystem. EU funded project. "Citizens give up data in blockchain project to improve
DEcentralised Citizens Owned Data Ecosystem. EU funded project. "Citizens give up data in blockchain project to improve cities: The DECODE project will give residents of Barcelona and Amsterdam more control over how their personal data is harnessed by local government and businesses"
Source: newscientist.com
Tax plastic drinking straws, firm says - BBC News: A waste disposal firm claims that plastic drinking straws are "the ultimate
Tax plastic drinking straws, firm says - BBC News: A waste disposal firm claims that plastic drinking straws are "the ultimate in human wastefulness".
Source: bbc.co.uk
Philippines president bans smoking in public, with offenders facing jail: Rodrigo Duterte, a former smoker himself, defies
Philippines president bans smoking in public, with offenders facing jail: Rodrigo Duterte, a former smoker himself, defies country’s powerful tobacco lobby to sign order that also outlaws ‘vaping’
Source: theguardian.com
Consent issues about Google DeepMind raised after leaked letter but its analysis of 1.6 million patient records to identify
Consent issues about Google DeepMind raised after leaked letter but its analysis of 1.6 million patient records to identify those at risk of acute renal failure seems to be covered by 'implied consent'. "Google DeepMind patient app legality questioned. A leaked letter throws doubt on the legal basis...
Source: bbc.co.uk
NHSbuntu - a modern, secure, open source, operating system being considered by Jeremy Hunt for the NHS. It seems to have
NHSbuntu - a modern, secure, open source, operating system being considered by Jeremy Hunt for the NHS. It seems to have taken the recent ransomware attack on the ageing Windows XP infrastructure of the NHS to alert those in charge to an innovation that has already been developed from within it. NHSbuntu...
Source: openhealthhub.org
Cambridge Analytica, Trump, and the new old fear of manipulating the masses: "Fears of mass manipulation by new media are
Cambridge Analytica, Trump, and the new old fear of manipulating the masses: "Fears of mass manipulation by new media are as old as mass media themselves. Almost every expansion of media or new media technology provoked paranoia about the contagious emotions of 'the masses.'"
Source: niemanlab.org
WHO | Statement on Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: WHO has been informed of a cluster of illness and deaths
WHO | Statement on Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: WHO has been informed of a cluster of illness and deaths including haemorrhagic symptoms in Likati Health Zone, Bas Uele Province in the north of DRC. On 11 May, the Ministry of Health informed WHO that of 5 laboratory samples tested for...
Source: who.int
Updating Asimov - How Do We Regain Control In the Digital Age? - The Scholarly Kitchen: Algorithms behave in ways even their
Updating Asimov - How Do We Regain Control In the Digital Age? - The Scholarly Kitchen: Algorithms behave in ways even their creators can't understand, yet they dominate how we share and see information. Do we need a "Three Laws for Algorithms"?
Source: sspnet.org
The Ebook R/Evolution – Not as Easy as It Seems - The Scholarly Kitchen: The "ebook revolution" in scholarly publishing
The Ebook R/Evolution – Not as Easy as It Seems - The Scholarly Kitchen: The "ebook revolution" in scholarly publishing has behaved more like an evolution. Are we reaching a key inflection point where users are central to our innovations?
Source: sspnet.org
A Serious Game for Learning C Programming Language Concepts Using Solo Taxonomy: This paper conducts a study to identify
A Serious Game for Learning C Programming Language Concepts Using Solo Taxonomy: This paper conducts a study to identify pedagogical approaches and gameplay techniques involved in the development of serious games for teaching scientific courses in general especially programming languages. The concept...
Source: online-journals.org
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