Winners of the 2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize | PLOS Biologue: It's time to celebrate the best of PLOS Computational Biology! In 2017 PLOS Computational Biology launched the "PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize" program with the aim to recognize some of the journal's most outstanding...
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Reflection revisited: how physicians conceptualize and experience reflection in professional practice - a qualitative study: For the purpose of continuous performance improvement, physicians are expected to reflect on their practice. While many reflection studies are theoretically oriented and often...
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Day 1406 - #thecrapartist - Il Bollo Apartments, Vicolo del Bollo, Rome. A bit of water colour sketching whilst sat on a stool on the junction of small back streets somewhere in Rome. The last minute wash of brown colour was a bit rash ... since it doesn't represent anything in the actual view and just...
Day 1404 - #thecrapartist - pen sketch of the skyline in Rome as seen from the terrace of Hotel Relais Monti, via Urbana, Rome. There were of course 5 windows per floor not 4 and some shutters were open ... but ... such is the power of the artist to simplify (even if partly by accident). The top floor...
Team-based learning (TBL) in the medical curriculum: better than PBL?: Internationally, medical schools have long used a variety of approaches to develop hybrid Problem based learning (PBL) curricula. However, Team-based learning (TBL), has gained recent popularity in medical education. TBL maintains...
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Complexity in the evaluation of medical education - how would you evaluate this one? I am really enjoying putting together the 'current topics and controversies' week at the end of our module on 'evaluation' in the MSc/PgDip Medical Education programme at University of South Wales - though I am now...
Using social media to support small group learning: Medical curricula are increasingly using small group learning and less didactic lecture-based teaching. This creates new challenges and opportunities in how students are best supported with information technology. We explored how university-supported...
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The Health and Social Care Act of 2012 - making GPs lead Clinical Commissioning Groups - did not reduce overall hospitalisations study concludes. "[G]iving control of healthcare budgets to GP-led CCGs was not associated
with a reduction in overall hospitalisations and was associated with an
increase...
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The British Museum gleams with stolen riches from its colonial past – but Asian names are too 'confusing' for inclusion: When you have a name that perhaps sounds a little different – unusual, perhaps – some might ask: “How is that pronounced?”, comment: “Oh, that’s lovely”, or even: “What...
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Offshore wind cheaper than new nuclear: Figures from the government are seen as a milestone in the advance of renewable energy.
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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...
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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.
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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
Spiral drawing test detects signs of Parkinson's - BBC News: Australian researchers have developed software that measures writing speed and pen pressure.
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Science funding: Will 'picking winners' work? - BBC News: Why has the government returned to an industrial strategy abandoned in the 1980s?
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Continuing professional development: progress beyond continuing medical education: Continuing medical education (CME) is rapidly evolving into competency-based continuing professional development (CPD) and this is driving change in self-directed CPD programs undertaken by individual practitioners as...
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Low‐cost agricultural waste accelerates tropical forest regeneration: Lower‐cost tropical forest restoration methods, particularly those framed as win–win business‐protected area partnerships, could dramatically increase the scale of tropical forest restoration activities,... Treuer, Timothy...
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Coming back from the edge: a qualitative study of a professional support unit for junior doctors: It is known that many trainee doctors around the world experience work satisfaction but also considerable work stress in the training period. Such stress seems to be linked to multiple factors including...
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Epigenetics may explain how Darwin's finches respond to rapid environmental changes, according to new research published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Source: phys.org
A Roadmap to 100% Renewable Energy in 139 Countries by 2050: Wind, solar, hydropower, and geothermal could power most of the world argues Mark Jaobson and team
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