This study investigates how preschool teachers work with digitization in preschool, with a focus on motion pictures. I use three research questions, based on previous research linked to digitization in preschool, knowledge of educators, attitudes towards digitization and digital literacy: what attitude do preschool teachers have towards digitizatio...
Published in Open Philosophy
The article aims at showing how far the technologies of audiovisual registration affect not only the ontology of images but also our sense of realism in politics and history. As argue Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, historical events have become “tele-events” after the birth of these technologies. Our handling with images has changed accordin...
Published in American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
Objective. To produce, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of a film to develop the foundational knowledge and skills of health professions students and teach them the importance of interprofessional collaboration. Methods. An existing interprofessional case study about a Hispanic man suffering from multiple chronic health conditions and the ...
The antiquity period has just undergone a big debate in Sweden, the debate started by Skolverkets proposal to remove the antiquity period from being taught in Swedish schools. The proposal did not go through; however, it did start a debate on time-management. How do we fully optimize our teaching hours? This study’s aim is to find out if motion pic...
We reported a case of a 10-year-old girl who developed a PTSD-like syndrome after watching a horror movie. After 6 years, the now 16-year-old patient still fulfilled the DSM-IV criteria for PTSD, except for the trauma itself. We reviewed the scientific literature for case reports of PTSD-like syndrome induced by horror movies and found 13 cases. In...
Published in F1000Research
Background : A breast-specific photoacoustic imaging (PAI) system prototype equipped with a hemispherical detector array (HDA) has been reported as a promising system configuration for providing high morphological reproducibility for vascular structures in living bodies. Methods : To image the vasculature of human limbs, a newly designed PAI system...
This interview presents reflections on the relationship between childhood and motion pictures, a theme that is still rarely researched in Latin America. It is discussed that, even though movies are made and decided by adults, it is possible to identify a presence of childhood in these same pictures that resist adult determinations. Beyond the repre...
Science fiction cinema proposal for Bioethic educationProposta do cinema de ficção científica para educar em BioéticaPosthumanism state that technologies will eliminate aging, improve cognitive, physical and psychological skills and keep alive human minds by uploading them in machines as artificial intelligence. These beliefs, as constant features ...
Abstract: Objective: To examine and compare overall prevalence and time trends in tobacco and alcohol portrayals and brand appearances in youth-rated US and nationally-produced films that were the most successful in Argentina and Mexico from 2004-2012. Materials and methods: Top-grossing nationally produced films from Argentina (n=73), Mexico (n=85...
