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Current themes and challenges facing HPE accreditation in the 21st century

A supplement in BMC Medical Education on Health Professional Education accreditation from the community of practice The International Health Professions Accreditation Outcomes Consortium (IFPAOC) - which was founded in 2012. This supplement focuses on graduate and residency programmes but it also addresses...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Taking the temperature of the ocean by measuring the speed of sound waves passing through it

Taking the temperature of the ocean by measuring the speed of sound waves passing through it: A team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a way to detect changes in ocean temperatures by measuring sound waves generated by underwater...
Source: phys.org

Adaptive tutorials versus web-based resources in radiology: a mixed methods analysis in junior doctors of efficacy and engagement:

Adaptive tutorials versus web-based resources in radiology: a mixed methods analysis in junior doctors of efficacy and engagement: Radiology education is limited in undergraduate Medicine programs. Junior doctors might not have the necessary background to effectively order and interpret diagnostic imaging...
Source: biomedcentral.com

China Chopper still active 9 years later

China Chopper still active 9 years later: A blog from the world class Intelligence Group, Talos, Cisco's Intelligence Group
Source: talosintelligence.com

Scientists May Have Found Evidence of Life in the Clouds of Venus

Scientists May Have Found Evidence of Life in the Clouds of Venus - ExtremeTech: An international team from MIT, Cardiff University, and other institutions has identified a compound called phosphine in Venus' murky atmosphere that is strongly associated with life.
Source: extremetech.com

9 errors of judgement about the pandemic

America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral: As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.
Source: theatlantic.com

Reviewing research about the evolution of complex cognition in birds

Reviewing research about the evolution of complex cognition in birds: So far, the majority of studies investigating brain functions and intelligence have been carried out either on humans or animals that are known to be most similar to humans, such as monkeys, apes, and other mammals. Nonetheless, some...
Source: phys.org

Robin Dunbar suggests negative impact of pandemic on friendships likely to be fleeting

Psychologist suggests negative impact of pandemic on friendships likely to be fleeting: Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar, a psychologist at the University of Oxford, has conducted a review of the literature and concluded that the impact of the pandemic on friendships is likely to be fleeting. He has published...
Source: phys.org

A comparison between the effectiveness of a gamified approach with the conventional approach in point-of-care ultrasonographic

A comparison between the effectiveness of a gamified approach with the conventional approach in point-of-care ultrasonographic training: Although gamification increases user engagement, its effectiveness in point-of-care ultrasonographic training has yet to be fully established. This study was conducted...
Source: biomedcentral.com

APOD: 2020 August 11 - Churning Clouds on Jupiter

"Pictured by Juno, churning clouds on Jupiter show not only mesmerizing complexity but some high-level, light-colored pop-up clouds. Understanding atmospheric dynamics on Jupiter gives valuable perspective to similar atmospheric and lightning phenomena that occur on our home Earth."
Source: nasa.gov

God Is Dead. So Is the Office. These People Want to Save Both: Divinity consultants are designing sacred rituals for corporations

God Is Dead. So Is the Office. These People Want to Save Both: Divinity consultants are designing sacred rituals for corporations and their spiritually depleted employees.
Source: nytimes.com

Abandon lectures: increase attendance, attitudes and attainment

Abandon lectures: increase attendance, attitudes and attainment: In a recent debate with Stephen Downes, I spent some time going through dozens of papers and meta-studies showing that the lecture is a larg...
Source: blogspot.com

Using Machine Learning to Detect Deficient Coverage in Colonoscopy Screenings

Using Machine Learning to Detect Deficient Coverage in Colonoscopy Screenings: Posted by Daniel Freedman and Ehud Rivlin, Research Scientists, Google Health "In “Detecting Deficient Coverage in Colonoscopies”, we introduce the Colonoscopy Coverage Deficiency via Depth algorithm, or C2D2, a machine...
Source: googleblog.com

Breakthrough AI identifies 50 new planets from old NASA data: British researchers have identified 50 new planets using artificial

Breakthrough AI identifies 50 new planets from old NASA data: British researchers have identified 50 new planets using artificial intelligence, marking a technological breakthrough in astronomy.
Source: cnn.com

Elevated CO2, increased leaf-level productivity, and water-use efficiency during the early Miocene: Abstract. Rising atmospheric

Elevated CO2, increased leaf-level productivity, and water-use efficiency during the early Miocene: Abstract. Rising atmospheric CO2 is expected to increase global temperatures, plant water-use efficiency, and carbon storage in the terrestrial biosphere. A CO2 fertilization effect on terrestrial vegetation...
Source: copernicus.org

Kenyans go hi-tech to save endangered Grevy’s zebra: Software analyses ’citizen scientist’ photos to automate census

Kenyans go hi-tech to save endangered Grevy’s zebra: Software analyses ’citizen scientist’ photos to automate census of rare zebra
Source: independent.co.uk

Google Has Announced a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree: Google's new certificate program takes only six months to complete,

Google Has Announced a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree: Google's new certificate program takes only six months to complete, and will be a fraction of the cost of college.
Source: inc.com

'Mum told me to give back to the community': the young Australian creating robots for good: As a 12-year-old in Cairns,

'Mum told me to give back to the community': the young Australian creating robots for good: As a 12-year-old in Cairns, Marita Cheng dreamt of building a robot that would do her chores. Two decades later, the former Young Australian of the Year is turning some of that dream into a reality - but the machines...
Source: theage.com.au

France's global nuclear fusion device a puzzle of huge parts.

France's global nuclear fusion device a puzzle of huge parts: A hugely ambitious project to replicate the energy of the sun is entering a critical phase, as scientists and technicians in southern France begin assembling giant parts of a nuclear fusion device, an international experiment aimed to develop...
Source: phys.org

Exploring Faster Screening with Fewer Tests via Bayesian Group Testing:

"Exploring Faster Screening with Fewer Tests via Bayesian Group Testing: Posted by Marco Cuturi and Jean-Philippe Vert, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team How does one find a needle in a haystack..." Testing a population of 16 where only one is positive would require 16 tests. However,...
Source: googleblog.com