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The following topics are dealt with: distance learning; medical computing; information technology; computer aided instruction; digital library; knowledge organization; data visualisation; service engineering; educational information system; digital education resources; computer science education; collaborative learning; computer aided teaching; e-learning system; learning information system; multimedia...
In the present day Knowledge Society, which is increasingly mobile, workers are expected to bring to bear vast amounts of knowledge to deal with situations they face - often instantly. Under these circumstances, there is little time to employ traditional methods of searching for information and processing it to deal with the problem at hand. What we need then is a tool that constantly finds information,...
The development of distance learning materials relies on good instructional design guidance as well as convenient authoring tools. Yet, reusing learning objects is feasible with advanced computer and network technologies. In addition to use a common representation of learning objects (e.g., SCORM, QTI, Common Cartridge), infrastructure and repository framework to store these objects are critical,...
All systems including health systems may be described in terms of processes that convert inputs to valued outputs. 'Management processes' set the strategy for 'demand/supply processes' which address health priority needs for quality of care services delivered via 'implementation processes'. These systems are very complex. Management processes involve many different perspectives, dimensions, objectives...
The dramatic progress of information and communication technologies has greatly changed the way people work, live, play, and learn. In this talk, we firstly review the historical development of computer and IT in education, and reflect on the past experience. We introduce the practice and challenge at Waseda E-School, the first accredited undergraduate degree award program by fully online e-learning...
Study Design. Instead of inserting the screw based only on surgical experience,computer-aided design (CAD) techniques were used to build a digital model for treating a three year old Chinese girl. Objective. To improve the safety of atlantoaxial pedicle screw fixation. Summary of Background Data. Due to the complex of anatomy and variations in the structure of the pedicle of the atlantoaxial vertebral...
The National Health Service (NHS) in England is the largest organisation in Europe, with over 1.3 million people working in it, and serving the needs of some 50 million citizens. The NHS is halfway through a ten year plan to implement the National Program for IT, the largest civilian IT project in the world. It is intended to bring the benefits of advanced information technologies for the maintenance...
This paper reviews the research conducted in the Design Technology Research Centre in the School of Design of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Several major approaches to computational design are reviewed and analyzed. Based on the review and critical analysis of the results achieved so far, a more design oriented approach is proposed for the continuation of the research in this direction and...
In this paper, we explore the solutions of several optimization problems related to the Lagrangians of 3-uniform hypergraphs in some special cases. Exact solutions of these problems will benefit applications such as machine vision, image-guided neuro surgery and human face tracking in real time.
This paper presents a framework for the rapid isolation and representation of structures from spatially registered image stacks. The introduced framework enables dynamic visualization with next generation volumetric displays, in which image volumes are rendered in real 3D space. Two recent semi-supervised approaches to the problem of segmenting relevant structures are investigated and integrated to...
In this study, we assessed the large sample population of patients with chronic gastritis based on three methods with supervised learning function, i.e., the regression analysis, BP neural network and support vector machine. On basis of the results, we constructed the diagnostic models to predict the types of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) syndromes of chronic gastritis, and compared the correct...
Objective: By analyzing the effect of natural cerebrolysin (NC) on gene expression profile of rat hippocampus Alzheimer's disease (AD), to explore its molecular genetic pharmacodynamic mechanism of anti-AD. Methods: The experiment included the AD model, sham-operation and NC treated group. The changes of hippocampus gene expression profiles in the above three groups were analyzed by Affymetrix rat...
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