The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus urged all members of the society to adopt COVID-responsible behavioral patterns and practice them in everyday life. Given the variability in its adoption, it is critical to understand psychological factors associated with socially responsible behavior during the pandemic. This might be even more important among adolescents, who are less endangered by the virus but contribute to its spread.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, higher educational institutions worldwide switched to emergency distance learning in early 2020. The less structured environment of distance learning forced students to regulate their learning and motivation more independently. According to self-determination theory (SDT), satisfaction of the three basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence and social relatedness affects intrinsic motivation, which in turn relates to more active or passive learning behavior.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the wake of COVID-19, university students have experienced fundamental changes of their learning and their lives as a whole. The present research identifies psychological characteristics associated with students' well-being in this situation. We investigated relations of basic psychological need satisfaction (experienced competence, autonomy, and relatedness) with positive emotion and intrinsic learning motivation, considering self-regulated learning as a moderator.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe sudden switch to distance education to contain the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered adolescents' lives around the globe. The present research aims to identify psychological characteristics that relate to adolescents' well-being in terms of positive emotion and intrinsic learning motivation, and key characteristics of their learning behavior in a situation of unplanned, involuntary distance education. Following Self-Determination Theory, experienced competence, autonomy, and relatedness were assumed to relate to active learning behavior (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCOVID-19 and its containment measures have uniquely challenged adolescent well-being. Following self-determination theory (SDT), the present research seeks to identify characteristics that relate to well-being in terms of positive emotion and intrinsic learning motivation under distance schooling conditions and whether SDT's core postulates hold true in this exceptional situation. Feeling competent and autonomous concerning schoolwork, and socially related to others were hypothesised to relate to positive emotion and intrinsic learning motivation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe spread of the COVID-19 pandemic quickly necessitated digital learning, which bore challenges for all pupils but especially for groups disadvantaged in a virtual classroom. As some studies indicate persistent differences between boys and girls in use of technologies and related skills, the aim of this study was to investigate gender differences in the digital learning environment students faced in spring 2020. Previous studies investigating gender differences in digital learning largely used biological sex as the only indicator of gender.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: In March 2020 schools in Austria temporarily closed and switched to distance learning to contain the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The resulting situation posed great challenges to teachers, guardians and students (Huber and Helm 2020). Research has shown that perceived competence (Deci and Ryan 2000) affects selfregulated learning (SRL), intrinsic motivation and procrastination, however few studies have considered these variables in context of distance learning among adolescents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz
March 2009
In Germany there are many successful special applications of telemedicine. However, these projects are generally not extendable to the whole nation because of the highly complex German health care system, limited funding, heterogeneous IT standards in ambulatory and hospital care, insufficient official electronic health card use, the different data protection and privacy regulations of the federal and state governments, doubts of physicians and patients as well as unequal costs and benefits for the various persons involved in telemedicine. These problems can be overcome by better legal regulations for a seamless interaction of ambulatory and hospital care, improved IT standards and support of the interoperability of telemedical and other health care IT, adaption of the health care organization, work flow and reimbursement of telemedicine services, better information and education of all persons involved about the necessity and limits of telemedicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn large installations of a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), data protection becomes an issue. Above all, not every employee should have access to all data stored in the system. At the Freiburg University Hospital, we developed a concept of dynamic assignment of authorization, assuring that every physician is authorized to the data of all patients under his care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Analysis of patterns and causes of artifacts found in endographic visualization of spiral CT data.
Materials And Methods: A straight perspex tube with a diameter of 20 mm was scanned in three different positions with ten scan protocols of varying table feed, increment, kernel, and signal to noise ratio (Tomoscan AVE, Philips). The resulting 30 CT datasets were visualized as a virtual endoscopy (VE) with ten different visualization protocols (Easy Vision 4.
Data networks are a basic technology with regard to an appropriate design of the information technology (IT) infrastructure for the hospital. Due to the distributed workflow within the hospital, an integrated Hospital Information System (HIS) is based mostly on a set of network applications facing specific items. Medical communication standards, i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed
March 1998
Legacy local area network (LAN) technologies based on shared media concepts are not adequate for the growth of a large-scale picture archiving and communication system (PACS) in a client-server architecture. First, an asymmetric network load, due to the requests of a large number of PACS clients for only a few main servers, should be compensated by communication links to the servers with a higher bandwidth compared to the clients. Secondly, as the number of PACS nodes increases, the network throughout should not measurably cut production.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFModern network technologies provide the basic infrastructure for information and communication systems in the hospital today. The goal to build up a universal network infrastructure which meets the broadly varied requirements. Analysis of data communication in the hospital and the evaluation of established network technologies, as well as new developments, leads to the switching concept as the suitable solution.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSince 1996 a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) is installed at the university hospital of Freiburg. The PACS is integrated in the hospital information system (HIS) and several modalities of different vendors are attached to it. During the implementation phase three critical factors to the success of our PACS installation where identified: the support of the workflow, the interface of the radiological information system (RIS) to the modalities, and the security policy to allow hospital-wide access to the images and results in the PACS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRADIOLIS is an instructional software system for radiological training that guides the user through a systematic analysis of an image. The backbone of the analysis is a detailed and structured questionnaire which, as applied to our example, includes all relevant differential-diagnostic criteria for focal bone lesions. The variation range of the radiomorphologic characteristics in the questionnaire is introduced to the user with digitized X-ray images, making the simulation of an image analysis possible.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn approach for an all-embracing ECG signal analysis is introduced. Self organizing maps are applied to spatial high resolution multilead ECG (body surface ECG) recorded during the acute phase of myocardial infarction to detect characteristic changes. The algorithm deals with the measurement of similarity between different pathological signal types.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe texture-based segmentation of x-ray images of focal bone lesions using topological maps is introduced. Texture characteristics are described by image-point correlation of feature images to feature vectors. For the segmentation, the topological map is labeled using an improved labeling strategy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSince the 1960s there have been numerous reports in the literature about computer-aided medical diagnosis and therapy. However, so far computer-aided diagnosis has not become important in the clinical routine or in the field of radiology. This paper describes the hitherto existing proposals for expert systems to evaluate focal bone lesions and presents a new concept.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSb Ved Pr Lek Fak Karlovy Univerzity Hradci Kralove Suppl
March 1988
These studies were undertaken to determine the effects of morphine and other opiate and opioid agonists on body temperature in the mouse. Mice were lightly restrained, and rectal temperatures were monitored after injection of opiate analgesics at each of three ambient temperatures. The drugs tested were pure agonists representing eight different chemical classes.
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