Advances in Physiology Education

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of positive interdependence vs. no-interdependence on students' academic achievement and found that students in the positive-interdependent condition engaged in significantly more interaction and more promotive interaction while taking the electronic quizzes and achieved higher scores on the subsequent examinations taken individually.

TL;DR: The strategy of a choreographed dance as described in this article could also be considered a blueprint for teachers if they wish to construct a similar activity in a different topic which may be more relevant to their own students.

TL;DR: A comparison of two different instruction methodologies, Traditional Instruction Methodology (TIM) and Inverted Instruction Methodological (IIM), in terms of students’ perceptions and emotions in a science course showed that the IIM had a significant influence in students” perceptions toward the course and made classes more interactive.

TL;DR: The use of games was equally popular in family medicine and internal medicine residency programs and popularity was inversely associated with more than 75% of residents in the program being International Medical Graduates.

TL;DR: Numerical modeling with a phenomenologically derived Rayleigh oscillator reproduces all of the experimental behavior and develops a very stable version of this saline oscillator.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the dependence of vortex dynamics on parameters of the excitable cardiac cell membrane in a homogeneous isotropic medium and demonstrated that there is a transition from the vortex with circular core that is typical of most excitable media, including the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, to a vortex with linear core that has been observed in heart muscle during so-called reentrant arrhythmias.

TL;DR: The range of behavioral flexibility of the FitzHugh-Nagumo excitable medium is explored by varying two of its parameters and comparing the results with other excitable media to suggest a generic pattern of parameter dependence.

TL;DR: Patently evident nonstationary spiral waves with long life spans were uncommon in a sample of mostly normal cardiac tissues, thus making a single meandering spiral wave an unlikely major mechanism of fibrillation in normal ventricular myocardium.