The recent establishment of major trauma networks in the UK has placed great emphasis on the appropriate tasking of HEMS units to cases where added benefit can be provided and the incidence of time critical injury in cases of equestrian accidents has been shown to be low.
It follows that the design and selection of appropriate tasks to use in Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) are key issues.
Our aim is to review the biomedical and animal welfare literature with a view to facilitating the selection or design of appropriate tasks for pig cognition research.
Research on this problem highlights important aspects in the design of online interaction: the nature of the triggering event or problem under question (Luebeck & Bice, 2005), the design of appropriate tasks (Murphy, 2004), the use of appropriate techniques by the moderator for organizing –but not eliciting- discussion and finally, the focus on group dynamics (Pawan, Paulus, Yalcin, & Chang, 2003).
The use of appropriate tasks will facilitate the collection of reliable and valid data on pig cognition.
Multiple imputation of missing values would have been challenging, because the number of appropriate tasks varied across patients for four of the dependent variables.
For each outcome, patient and time point, we observed a binomial count of the number of tasks performed correctly, where the total number of appropriate tasks varied across patients for patient history and physical examination.
However, sharing of appropriate tasks in similar contexts is supported by WHO [ 24].
AT = axillary temperature, LWA = low weight for age b Not included on the baseline assessment tool Figure 2 shows the unadjusted average proportion of appropriate tasks performed correctly comparing arms A and B at baseline (time 0) and at endline (time 1).
Behavioral testing is also problematic and care is needed in selecting appropriate tasks that minimize the risk of over/under-identifying cases of language impairment.
