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Conceptions of learning factors in postgraduate health sciences master students: a comparative study with nonhealth science students and between genders
Background: The studentsâ conceptions of learning in postgraduate health science master studies are poorly
understood. The aim of this study was to compare the factors influencing conceptions of learning in health
sciences and non-health sciences students enrolled in postgraduate master programs in order to obtain
information that may be useful for students and for future postgraduate programs.
Methods: A modified version of the Learning Inventory Conception Questionnaire (COLI) was used to compare
studentsâ conception learning factors in 131 students at the beginning of their postgraduate studies in health
sciences, experimental sciences, arts and humanities and social sciences.
Results: The present study demonstrates that a set of factors may influence conception of learning of health
sciences postgraduate students, with learning as gaining information, remembering, using, and understanding
information, awareness of duty and social commitment being the most relevant. For these students, learning as a
personal change, a process not bound by time or place or even as acquisition of professional competences, are less
relevant. According to our results, this profile is not affected by gender differences.
Conclusions: Our results show that the overall conceptions of learning differ among students of health sciences
and non-health sciences (experimental sciences, arts and humanities and social sciences) master postgraduate
programs. These finding are potentially useful to foster the learning process of HS students, because if they are
metacognitively aware of their own conception or learning, they will be much better equipped to self-regulate
their learning behavior in a postgraduate master program in health sciences.Supported by CTS-115 (Tissue Engineering Group of the University of Granada).
The funding body did not took part in the design of the study and collection,
analysis and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript
Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity Finds the Start of Repeating Patterns in Continuous Spike Trains
Experimental studies have observed Long Term synaptic Potentiation (LTP) when a presynaptic neuron fires shortly before a postsynaptic neuron, and Long Term Depression (LTD) when the presynaptic neuron fires shortly after, a phenomenon known as Spike Timing Dependant Plasticity (STDP). When a neuron is presented successively with discrete volleys of input spikes STDP has been shown to learn âearly spike patternsâ, that is to concentrate synaptic weights on afferents that consistently fire early, with the result that the postsynaptic spike latency decreases, until it reaches a minimal and stable value. Here, we show that these results still stand in a continuous regime where afferents fire continuously with a constant population rate. As such, STDP is able to solve a very difficult computational problem: to localize a repeating spatio-temporal spike pattern embedded in equally dense âdistractorâ spike trains. STDP thus enables some form of temporal coding, even in the absence of an explicit time reference. Given that the mechanism exposed here is simple and cheap it is hard to believe that the brain did not evolve to use it
Measurement of hadron and lepton-pair production at 161 GeV<root s<172 GeV at LEP
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A Measurement of Pi-Polarization at Lep
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