The goal of science is to understand why things are the way they are. By emulating the logic
of nature, computer simulation programs capture the essence of natural objects, thereby …

Considerable research has compared how students learn science from computer simulations
with how they learn from “traditional” classes. Little research has compared how students …

This volume offers a multi-author survey and analysis of economic developments in the
Russian Federation since the collapse of Communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union in …

The primary prevention of cardiovascular disease is a public health priority. To assess the
costs and benefits of a Polypill Prevention Programme using a daily 4-component polypill from …

An image-based approach has been developed to represent bleeding in a simulator for
transurethral resection of prostate (TURP). While previous attempts have simulated bleeding …

This paper describes work in progress on the design and development of a prototype simulator
for minimally invasive otolaryngology surgical training. The anatomy of the paranasal …

The Madigan Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (ESS) Simulator, developed by a multi-institution
team led by Lockheed Martin, includes force-feedback instrument and virtual endoscope …

The social contract in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia has concerned not classical political
rights but socio-economic issues. Loyalty is accorded to the powers-that-be partly from fear of …

Several studies have examined real estate investment trust (REIT) co-movement with stocks
or bonds using traditional time domain based methods, such as linear regression or …

PURPOSE: To understand how urologists acquire resection skills we analyzed factors
correlating with favorable resection metrics in groups defined as experts, residents and novices. …