Been using this ‘pencil project’ software for flowcharting. Works really well for quickly sketching systems diagrams and workflows that you can export to various formats. It is available on Windows (also as a stand-alone App on PortableApps.com, Linux, and Mac) The ‘sketchy’ style wireframing...
Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions: Eleven research funders in Europe announce ‘Plan S’ to make all scientific works free to read as soon as they are published. European Commission special envoy Robert-Jan Smits has spearheaded a plan to make all scientific works free...
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Randomised experiment: If you're really unsure whether to quit your job or break up, you really probably should
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Self-organizing Community Learning Based on P2P Network in a University Computer Foundation Course: In order to solve the problem of lack of targeted guidance for learners in the community learning process, an improved algorithm for constructing com-munities was proposed. The algorithm used P2P architecture....
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Poorer areas of England have more fast-food shops, figures show: Health agency calls on councils to consider imposing limits to help reduce obesity
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Four principles to make evidence synthesis more useful for policy : Reward the creation of analyses for policymakers that are inclusive, rigorous, transparent and accessible, urge Christl A. Donnelly and colleagues. Reward the creation of analyses for policymakers that are inclusive, rigorous, transparent...
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Marree Man: The enduring mystery of a giant outback figure: Etched into the outback 20 years ago, the vast figure remains a subject of fascination.
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Screening for Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement: This 2018 Recommendation Statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening for osteoporosis with bone measurement testing to prevent osteoporotic fractures in women 65...
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Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron. Engineers around the world pour their sweat and frankly, their hearts into these passion projects that undergird all software in the modern internet economy. In exchange, they ask for nothing in return except for recognition and help…
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Some science journals that claim to peer review papers do not do so: One estimate puts the number of papers in questionable journals at 400,000
Source: economist.com
Charging patients for appointments 'against founding principle of NHS', says RCGP
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Millions of British children breathing toxic air, Unicef warns: More than 4.5 million affected, says UN group, while tests suggest children’s shorter height increases exposure on busy roads
Source: theguardian.com
Open-Source Tools for Value Assessment: A Promising Approach: In order to deliver value-based care, health care decision makers, eg, insurers and health system administrators, need value data at their fingertips—data that are relevant to their own context and reflect their own perspective on what costs...
Source: journalofclinicalpathways.com
Understanding and Creating Calculators for Medical Diagnoses: Exclusive Interview with MDCalc |: MDCalc is a 13-year-old medical reference started by two practicing emergency medicine physicians, Dr. Joe Habboushe and Dr. Graham Walker. A
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Interview: The BMJ's Patient Review Initiative - A Novel Expansion of Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen: Kent Anderson looks at an innovative approach to peer review that has expanded, changed review approaches, and impressed authors.
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I've been looking for another way of presenting evidence for instructional design that is more efficient than simple lectures. The data collected by Benjamin Bloom and published in 1984 seems useful and I've redrawn the graph so it looks more modern than the line drawings of the original. Learning...
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The Digital Future of Education: Heutagogy and the Digital Future of Education Presentation at DTCE Manchester University This is an overview of Fred Garnett's work on digital projects since 1995 and how it might inform us about the future.
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Elderly social care should be 'free at point of need', says report: Report by IPPR and peers says reform would cut ‘catastrophic care costs’ of over £100,000 a year
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Alphabet's DeepMind Makes a Key Advance in Computer Vision: Alphabet's DeepMind neural networks can grasp a three-dimensional scene from just a handful of two-dimensional snapshots
Source: ieee.org
APOD: 2018 June 13 - Red Cloudbow over Delaware
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