Learning analytics has emerged as the discipline that fosters the learning process based on monitored data. As learning is a complex process that is not limited to a single environment, it benefits from a holistic approach where events in different contexts and settings are observed and combined. Thi...

The objective was to assess the relationship between emergency department (ED) crowding and timeliness of antibiotic administration to neonates presenting with fever in a pediatric ED. This was a retrospective cohort study of febrile neonates (aged 0-30 days) evaluate...

Six studies explored the relations of the regulatory modes of locomotion and assessment to individuals' tendency toward procrastination. Across academic and organizational contexts, and a variety of ways of assessing procrastination, the authors found assessment to be positively rela...

To advance the profession of dental hygiene, graduate education is necessary to support growth in research, education, administration, and practice in the discipline and to sustain credibility in a climate in which other health professions require entry-level master's and doctoral degrees. The purpos...

In the first of a two-part series on health and wellbeing, this article looks at how nurses can focus on their own health and wellbeing, and signposts resources to help them find coping strategies to prevent stress. Although many of the reference documents concerning health and wellbeing relate to th...

We propose to enrich the BDI agent framework with an extension which consists of two processing components, a priority changing function (PCF) selector and a priority controller. The priorities of desires/intentions are represented by their PCFs. A PCF is a function of both time and the utility valu...