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Lost in knowledge translation: Time for a map? - Graham - 2006 - Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Lost in knowledge translation: Time for a map? - Graham - 2006 - Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions - Wiley Online Library
Source: wiley.com

IBM’s Watson versus cancer: Hype meets reality: Five years ago, IBM announced that its supercomputer Watson would revolutionize

IBM’s Watson versus cancer: Hype meets reality: Five years ago, IBM announced that its supercomputer Watson would revolutionize cancer treatment by using its artificial intelligence to digest and distill the thousands of oncology studies publish…
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org

Facebook has mapped populations in 23 countries as it explores satellites to expand internet: Facebook used its own technology

Facebook has mapped populations in 23 countries as it explores satellites to expand internet: Facebook used its own technology to map the Earth's entire human population as it prepares for an internet based in space.
Source: cnbc.com

Freshman Orientations Now Include Online Learning | eLearningInside News: College and university orientations are now welcoming

Freshman Orientations Now Include Online Learning | eLearningInside News: College and university orientations are now welcoming the wired generation with online education initiatives.
Source: elearninginside.com

Study concerning the review and mapping of continuous professional development and lifelong learning for health professionals

Study concerning the review and mapping of continuous professional development and lifelong learning for health professionals in the EU - Public Health - European Commission: European Commission - There is widespread recognition of the importance of continuous professional development (CPD)...
Source: europa.eu

Is Python Really the Fastest-Growing Programming Language? - Slashdot: An anonymous reader quotes Stack Overflow Blog: In

Is Python Really the Fastest-Growing Programming Language? - Slashdot: An anonymous reader quotes Stack Overflow Blog: In this post, we'll explore the extraordinary growth of the Python programming language in the last five years, as seen by Stack Overflow traffic within high-income countries. The term...
Source: slashdot.org

Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - TorrentFreak: Sci-Hub, which is regularly referred to as the

Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - TorrentFreak: Sci-Hub, which is regularly referred to as the "Pirate Bay of science," faces another setback in a US federal court. After the site's operator failed to respond, the American Chemical Society now requests a default judgment of...
Source: torrentfreak.com

Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World's Oldest Continuously Run Libraries: The centuries-old texts were erased,

Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World's Oldest Continuously Run Libraries: The centuries-old texts were erased, and then written over, by monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt
Source: smithsonianmag.com

Facebook accused of fake audience numbers: Facebook Inc. claims its ads have the potential to reach more people than recent

Facebook accused of fake audience numbers: Facebook Inc. claims its ads have the potential to reach more people than recent U.S. census data shows exist, and that’s troublesome for one analyst, who thinks third-party measurement services stand to benefit.
Source: marketwatch.com

Old technology: NHS uses 10% of world's pagers at annual cost of £6.6m: Report into NHS communications says it uses 130,000

Old technology: NHS uses 10% of world's pagers at annual cost of £6.6m: Report into NHS communications says it uses 130,000 pagers and it is surprising ‘legacy equipment is relied upon in emergency situations’
Source: theguardian.com

The low-cost device saving newborns in India: Birth asphyxia – lack of oxygen – is the cause of 20% of newborn deaths

The low-cost device saving newborns in India: Birth asphyxia – lack of oxygen – is the cause of 20% of newborn deaths in India. A simple piece of equipment is helping revive babies and prevent long-term damage
Source: theguardian.com

8 Ways UX Design Theory Transformed My Approach to Course Design

8 Ways UX Design Theory Transformed My Approach to Course Design
Source: medium.com

Lentils: 'First UK commercial crop' harvested - BBC News: A supplier is working with farms in Hertfordshire, Hampshire,

Lentils: 'First UK commercial crop' harvested - BBC News: A supplier is working with farms in Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Suffolk, Sussex and Wiltshire.
Source: bbc.co.uk

8-STEP PROCESS Over four decades, Dr. Kotter observed countless leaders and organizations as they were trying to transform

8-STEP PROCESS Over four decades, Dr. Kotter observed countless leaders and organizations as they were trying to transform or execute their strategies. He identified and extracted the success factors and combined them into a methodology, the award-winning 8-Step Process for Leading Change.
Source: kotterinternational.com

UK citizens are taking air pollution monitoring into their own hands: Thousands of people are using home air quality monitoring

UK citizens are taking air pollution monitoring into their own hands: Thousands of people are using home air quality monitoring kits due to fears official figures are not capturing dangerous pollution levels, say Friends of the Earth
Source: theguardian.com

UK needs to act urgently to secure NHS data for British public, report warns: Algorithms based on NHS records could seed

UK needs to act urgently to secure NHS data for British public, report warns: Algorithms based on NHS records could seed an ‘entirely new industry’ in AI-based diagnostics and mint billions for tech companies, strategic review reveals. "Sir John Bell, a professor of medicine at Oxford university...
Source: theguardian.com

Wind turbine manufacturers are dipping toes into energy storage projects: Vestas said to be working with Tesla, and that

Wind turbine manufacturers are dipping toes into energy storage projects: Vestas said to be working with Tesla, and that just caps off a busy summer.
Source: arstechnica.com

The Nuremberg Code 70 Years Later: This Viewpoint examines the impact that the Nuremberg Code has had on the history of

The Nuremberg Code 70 Years Later: This Viewpoint examines the impact that the Nuremberg Code has had on the history of biomedical research ethics and discusses its place at the intersection of contemporary medicine and politics. Jonathan D. Moreno. Ulf Schmidt. Steve Joffe. JAMA.
Source: jamanetwork.com

Athelas Device Provides Accurate CBC Testing - From Home |: For high-risk patients or those with diseases that require constant

Athelas Device Provides Accurate CBC Testing - From Home |: For high-risk patients or those with diseases that require constant blood monitoring, going to the doctor for blood tests may soon be a thing of the past.
Source: medgadget.com

'Listen to women': UK doctors issued with first guidance on endometriosis: Disease, which causes crippling pain and can

'Listen to women': UK doctors issued with first guidance on endometriosis: Disease, which causes crippling pain and can lead to infertility, affects 176 million women worldwide and currently takes seven to eight years to diagnose
Source: theguardian.com