The instantaneous luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN will be increased up to a factor of five with respect to the present design value by undergoing an extensive upgrade program over the ...coming decade. The most important upgrade project for the ATLAS Muon System is the replacement of the present first station in the forward regions with the so-called New Small Wheels (NSWs). The NSWs will be installed during the LHC long shutdown in 2019/2020. Small-Strip Thin Gap Chamber (sTGC) detectors are designed to provide fast trigger and high precision muon tracking under the high luminosity LHC conditions. To validate the design, a full-size prototype sTGC detector of approximately 1.2×1.0m2 consisting of four gaps has been constructed. Each gap provides pad, strip and wire readouts. The sTGC intrinsic spatial resolution has been measured in a 32GeV pion beam test at Fermilab. At perpendicular incidence angle, single gap position resolutions of about 50μm have been obtained, uniform along the sTGC strip and perpendicular wire directions, well within design requirements. Pad readout measurements have been performed in a 130GeV muon beam test at CERN. The transition region between readout pads has been found to be 4mm, and the pads have been found to be fully efficient.
Clinical staff perfusionists are responsible for training perfusion students to perform tasks and manage patients in the clinical setting. They are often the least prepared to assume this teaching ...role. To address this need, a modular programme has been developed to provide the teaching staff with instructional skills. Adult learning theory specifies that an effective learning environment addresses issues of saliency, motivation, retention and transfer. Adults have different expectations, so this programme is designed to maximize this process. The programme is comprehensive and may be used for didactic instruction as well. Derived from a model designed for physicians as teachers, five modules provide theoretical support for teaching techniques, learning tools and management techniques for giving feedback and evaluating performance. Specifically, the topics address the following subjects: managing and motivating learners; teaching medical problem solving; teaching clinical skills; giving feedback and evaluating performance.
The short curriculum is based on teaching principles that apply to adult learners with diverse learning styles. While presenting techniques to use with different types of learners, the programme itself incorporates these techniques in teaching the teachers. The modules use lectures, demonstrations, role playing and video taping to challenge teachers and learners in the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains. The success of this programme is its ability to engage each participant in the learning process.
Performance of health maintenance procedures by internal medicine house staff is inadequate, yet little has been published outlining means to improve performance rates. We prospectively studied the ...effectiveness of a reminder system to improve screening by Pap smear, rectal examination with stool guaiac test, breast examination, and pneumococcal vaccine administration in two resident outpatient clinics. Performance of these preventive health measures was determined during a six-week baseline period and again after five months of chart reminders to residents in one clinic, and after six months without reminders. For the intervention, a physician's assistant screened each chart and attached a reminder to the front indicating which procedures were overdue based on published recommendations. Health screening behavior was not significantly different between the two resident clinics during baseline. After the five-month reminder intervention, residents in both groups moderately increased their preventive health activities over baseline; however, only the reminded group showed significant improvement (chi 2 = 11.60, P less than .001). Six months after remainders were discontinued there was no difference in overall performance between the two clinics (chi 2 = 2.79, NS). The reminded group did preserve its significant improvement over the baseline phase (chi 2 = 6.12, P less than .01). This simple reminder system had a modest but statistically significant positive impact on health screening behavior. Despite this improvement, absolute rates of screening remained below 50% in both clinics.
Learning Surgery Lowry, Stephen F; Ciocca, Rocco G; Rettie, Candice S ...
2005
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A symptom-based version of the critically-acclaimed Norton/Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence, Learning Surgery provides a ready reference to those in third and fourth year residencies. ...Essential algorithms and case presentations meet with clerkship learning objectives as outlined by the Association of Surgical Education in their ASE Manual. Two sections include Introduction to Clinical Surgery in the Surgical Clerkship Setting and Management of Surgical Diseases During the Clerkship. Chapters include: Stroke, Hypertension, Abdominal Masses, Head Injuries, and Burns. Written by leading clinicians and educators, both surgery residents and medical students will find LEARNING SURGERY indispensible in their rotations and clerkships. Surgeons who train residents will also find the text a valuable ajunct to their teaching.
Seventy-two kindergarteners participated in an instructional session (involving a reception, discovery, or control condition) and then took two immediate and two delayed (3 weeks) criterion tests, ...all of the tasks being concerned with simple probability events. Both a prediction and an explanation measure were used. Evidence for the superiority of discovery learning was not forthcoming. In the case of both the reception and discovery groups, prediction performance on the two criterion tests identical in type to the instructional task was consistently superior to that on the two criterion tests differing in type from the training task. Significant instructional condition prediction effects occurred predominantly, though not exclusively, in the criterion tests identical in type to the training task.
Phys. Rev. C 95, 045203 (2017) The DUET Collaboration reports on the measurements of the absorption
($\sigma_{\mathrm{ABS}}$) and charge exchange ($\sigma_{\mathrm{CX}}$) cross
sections of positively ...charged pions on carbon nuclei for the momentum range
201.6 MeV$/c$ to 295.1 MeV$/c$. The uncertainties on the absorption and charge
exchange cross sections are $\sim$9.5\% and $\sim$18\%, respectively. The
results are in good agreement with previous experiments. A covariance matrix
correlating the 5 $\sigma_{\mathrm{ABS}}$ and 5 $\sigma_{\mathrm{CX}}$ measured
data points is also reported
Phys. Rev. C 92, 035205 (2015) The combined cross section for absorption and charge exchange interactions of
positively charged pions with carbon nuclei for the momentum range 200 MeV/c to
300 MeV/c ...have been measured with the DUET experiment at TRIUMF. The
uncertainty is reduced by nearly half compared to previous experiments. This
result will be a valuable input to existing models to constrain pion
interactions with nuclei.
The DUET Collaboration reports on the measurements of the absorption (\(\sigma_{\mathrm{ABS}}\)) and charge exchange (\(\sigma_{\mathrm{CX}}\)) cross sections of positively charged pions on carbon ...nuclei for the momentum range 201.6 MeV\(/c\) to 295.1 MeV\(/c\). The uncertainties on the absorption and charge exchange cross sections are \(\sim\)9.5\% and \(\sim\)18\%, respectively. The results are in good agreement with previous experiments. A covariance matrix correlating the 5 \(\sigma_{\mathrm{ABS}}\) and 5 \(\sigma_{\mathrm{CX}}\) measured data points is also reported
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