Multimedia
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

High-volume rapid HIV testing in an urban emergency department.

30 Aug 2009 New Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines recommend routine HIV screening in locations including emergency departments. This study evaluates a novel approach to HIV counseling and testing (C&T) in a high-volume inner-city ... Read more...

Cognitive control in media multitaskers.

22 Aug 2009 Chronic media multitasking is quickly becoming ubiquitous, although processing multiple incoming streams of information is considered a challenge for human cognition. A series of experiments addressed whether there are systematic differences in ... Read more...

Out of a digital chrysalis: NIHNMF (pronounced nymph--the National Indigenous Health and New Media Forum).

30 Jul 2009 In conjunction with the Creating Futures conference, the inaugural meeting of the National Indigenous Health and New Media Forum (NIHNMF--pronounced as 'nymph') was held at the Tanks Gallery in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. This paper describes the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Multimedia'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Breadth-biased versus focused cognitive control in media multitasking behaviors. 7 Sep 2009
• High-volume rapid HIV testing in an urban emergency department. 30 Aug 2009
• Cognitive control in media multitaskers. 22 Aug 2009
• Children and clinical studies: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's new multimedia resource for pediatric research. 2 Aug 2009
• Out of a digital chrysalis: NIHNMF (pronounced nymph--the National Indigenous Health and New Media Forum). 30 Jul 2009
• Pride and performance: evaluation challenges of a multimedia and information technologies project in remote Aboriginal Australia. 30 Jul 2009
• Asthma 1-2-3: a low literacy multimedia tool to educate African American adults about asthma. 30 Jul 2009
• Observation, assisting, apprenticeship: cycles of visual and kinesthetic learning in dental education. 30 Jul 2009
• Multimedia version of a standard medical questionnaire improves patient understanding across all literacy levels. 19 Jul 2009
• The role of computer software in presenting information. 29 Jun 2009
• Improvement in surgical consent with a preoperative multimedia patient education tool: a pilot study. 29 Jun 2009
• A comparison of diabetes learning with and without interactive multimedia to improve knowledge, control, and self-care among people with diabetes in Taiwan. 29 Jun 2009
• Power to the people: using learner control to improve trainee reactions and learning in web-based instructional environments. 29 Jun 2009
• Personalized oral debriefing versus standardized multimedia instruction after patient crisis simulation. 29 Jun 2009
• Electronic theses and dissertations: a review of this valuable resource for nurse scholars worldwide. 30 May 2009
• [Effective acquisition of basic surgical techniques through blended learning] 30 May 2009
• A multimedia educational program that increases science achievement among inner-city non-Asian minority middle-school students. 30 May 2009
• Impact of a multimedia e-learning module on colon cancer literacy: a community-based pilot study. 11 May 2009
• Multimedia psychodynamic psychotherapy: a preliminary report. 29 Apr 2009
• [Development of a multimedia learning DM diet education program using standardized patients and analysis of its effects on clinical competency and learning satisfaction for nursing students] 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Multimedia'

Definition: Materials, frequently computer applications, that combine some or all of text, sound, graphics, animation, and video into integrated packages. (Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, 1994)

Descriptor UI: D019212

Alternative terms: Multimedia; Multimedium;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: J01.897.280.500.633; L01.178.820.090.633;

History Note: 97

Technical Notes: restrict to a combination of audiovisual aids: do not use for a multiplicity of media such as newspapers, radio, TV