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Video feedback in higher education - a contribution to improving the quality of written feedback
2012
Author's version of an article in the journal: Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy. Also available from the publisher at: http://www.idunn.no/ts/dk/2012/02/video_feedback_in_higher_education_-_a_contribution_to_impr The purpose of this article is to promote the significance of feedback regarding students’ working with written texts in higher education and to point out how technology can develop the quality and form of teachers’ feedback. The results of studies and tests completed in eight separate subject areas demonstrate that video feedback simplifies and increases the efficiency of responding to students’ work, as it allows the opportunity to achieve increased levels of precision and qual…
Who Benefits from WWW Presentation in the Basics of Informatics?
2011
This paper describes the use of WWW-based guided tours as a complementary addition to conventional lectures in the basics of informatics. Learning can be promoted in the spirit of constructivism, situated action, and cognitive flexibility when organizing a WWW coursework. We analyze the benefit of an optional coursework, including the use of guided tours and the use of search engines and directories on the WWW. This paper presents who benefits and who does not benefit from our optional coursework. The analysis is based on the background information and prior computer experience of the students, as well as pre and post tests. The study found that our WWW-based coursework suits best for femal…
Do patients' and referral centers' characteristics influence multiple sclerosis phenotypes? Results from the Italian multiple sclerosis and related d…
2022
Abstract Background Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by phenotypical heterogeneity, partly resulting from demographic and environmental risk factors. Socio-economic factors and the characteristics of local MS facilities might also play a part. Methods This study included patients with a confirmed MS diagnosis enrolled in the Italian MS and Related Disorders Register in 2000–2021. Patients at first visit were classified as having a clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), relapsing–remitting (RR), primary progressive (PP), progressive-relapsing (PR), or secondary progressive MS (SP). Demographic and clinical characteristics were analyzed, with centers’ characteristics, geographic macro-ar…
Tracing multisensory food experiences on Twitter
2021
How a food, or a dish, is named and how its components and attributes are described can all influence the perception and the enjoyment of the food. Therefore, tracing patterns in food descriptions and determining their role can be of value. The aims of this study were the following: (1) to describe the multisensory food experience as represented in microblog entries concerning food and drink on Twitter, (2) to provide an overview of the changes in the above-mentioned food representations during the period 2011‐20, and (3) to contribute to a broader understanding of the human‐food relationship as reflected on social media ‐ in this case Twitter ‐ and outline its potential utility for the res…
The Fatty Liver Assessment in Germany (FLAG) cohort study identifies large heterogeneity in NAFLD care
2020
Background & Aims NAFLD is a growing health concern. The aim of the Fatty Liver Assessment in Germany (FLAG) study was to assess disease burden and provide data on the standard of care from secondary care. Methods The FLAG study is an observational real-world study in patients with NAFLD enrolled at 13 centres across Germany. Severity of disease was assessed by non-invasive surrogate scores and data recorded at baseline and 12 months. Results In this study, 507 patients (mean age 53 years; 47% women) were enrolled. According to fibrosis-4 index, 64%, 26%, and 10% of the patients had no significant fibrosis, indeterminate stage, and advanced fibrosis, respectively. Patients with advanced fib…
LU profesora Konstantīna Čakstes piemiņas plāksne
2020
Raksts satur informāciju par LU profesora un Latvijas Centrālās padomes priekšsēdētāja Konstantīna Čakstes piemiņai veltīto plāksni LU Mazajā aulā, kas veltīts Otrā pasaules kara upuru 75. gadskārtai. Rakstā tiek analizēta K. Čakstes nozīme LU un Latvijas valsts vēsturē, kad Latvijas valsts bija kaujaslauks starp divām totalitārām lielvalstīm - PSRS un nacionālsociālistisko Vāciju. K. Čakstes iesaiste nevardarbīgajā pretošanās kustībā tiek uzskatīta kā viens no pēdējiem mēģinājumiem pārliecināt ASV un Lielbritāniju, ka tās sabiedrotā PSRS pret Baltijas valstīm rīkojas tikpat noziedzīgi kā nacionālsociālistiskā Vācija.
Pēteris Čevers – no LU studenta līdz nacionālajam partizānam
2022
The article is a supplement to the biography of the professional Latvian officer Pēteris Čevers. Until now, little research has been done on the academic life of P. Čevers - his studies at the University of Latvia and his involvement in the life of the Latvian student fraternity Fraternitas Metropolitana. Based on the documents of the Latvian State Historical Archives and existing published research on P. Čevers as a Latvian national partisan, an innovative study of the unknown facts of P. Čevers personality, especially the internal problems of his student fraternal life and the maintaining of links with the University of Latvia through the Fraternitas Metropolitana, has been created. It al…
Evangelical Global Engagement and the American State after World War II
2017
The resurgence of American evangelicalism since the 1940s unfolded in conjunction with efforts by policymakers to instrumentalize religion for the assertion of empire. Missions and foreign aid are two key areas where these dynamics intersected. They show that evangelicals were both at home in the “American century” and deeply critical of global power. Rather than being a weakness, however, these tensions enabled the movement to become a crucial arbiter at a time when the country's new role was not yet firmly legitimized at home. In particular, evangelicalism helped reconcile isolationist, antistatist, and antimilitarist sentiments with hegemonic aspirations, the national security state, and…
Una nación descamisada : Ortega y Gasset y su idea de España durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918)
2015
Ortega dedicó una atención algo escasa a la Primera Guerra Mundial en sus escritos. Pero para él la guerra fue una posibilidad de pensar la posibilidad de regeneración de la nación española . Estuvo menos interesado en escoger campos entre los aliados o Alemania que en lamentar los efectos de la neutralidad para España (en 1914 como en 1918). Esta equidistancia revisable fue, además, su manera de crearse un lugar en el campo de fuerzas intelectual y en la esfera política.Ortega insistió siempre en que la neutralidad, si era fruto de la debilidad, era la peor cosa que podía sucederle a España, pues la condenaba a la periferia de la toma de decisiones internacionales. Era causa y a la vez efe…
Hints from the Crowd: A Novel NoSQL Database
2013
The crowd can be an incredible source of information. In particular, this is true for reviews about products of any kind, freely provided by customers through specialized web sites. In other words, they are social knowledge, that can be exploited by other customers. The Hints From the Crowd HFC prototype, presented in this paper, is a NoSQL database system for large collections of product reviews; the database is queried by expressing a natural language sentence; the result is a list of products ranked based on the relevance of reviews w.r.t. the natural language sentence. The best ranked products in the result list can be seen as the best hints for the user based on crowd opinions the revi…