In using risk assessment as the "test bed" for our modeling, we aimed to test the hypothesis that high fidelity physical simulations - by realistically simulating naturally occurring clinical information - can prompt more realistic nurse judgements than paper cases.
In contrast, high fidelity physical simulations (for example, using computerized patient simulators) make use of more perceptual cues and so may generate more representative (and thus generalizable) judgement models.
Each participant assessed the risk of a set of described patients in two phases, with paper cases and with high fidelity physical simulations produced by a computerized patient simulator (Laerdal ™SimMan, Stavanger, Norway, http://www.laerdal.com).
They also seem to herald the future as yet unexplored and undiscovered as Glahn notes, "most scientific discoveries of recent times would not have been possible without the computing power of supercomputers, for example in quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, molecular modeling, physical simulations, and so on".
In this study we test whether paper case simulations evoke similar risk assessment judgements to the more realistic simulated patients used in high fidelity physical simulations.
Ultimately, any familiarity effect would have led to overachievement in the physical simulations, but in fact participants did less well in this simulated condition.
One really interesting feature of both the weasel and biomorph simulations is that they simulate the effects of several genes (in contrast to the physical simulations mentioned above).
Insights from geochemical data and physical simulations.
BRYAN KLINGNER in November 2008 completed his Ph.D. on tetrahedral mesh improvement algorithms and physical simulations with dynamically changing geometry.
Dr. Singh and his colleagues used high-resolution scanning technology and computer and physical simulations to examine the microscopic structure of the external walls of African termite nests.
