Abstract: A career analysis method and system. The system comprises a computing apparatus comprising data. The data comprises a specified job title and a first list comprising a first plurality of required skills for the specified job title. Candidate data is received by the computing apparatus. Candidate data comprises a job candidate and a second list comprising plurality of skills related to a job held by the candidate. The first plurality of required skills is compared with the plurality of skills related to the job held by the candidate to determine a set of common skills. A common skills score is calculated. A first set of market valued skills from the first plurality of required skills is determined. A score is calculated based on a function of the first set of market valued skills and the first plurality of required skills.

Abstract: Disclosed are a learning system and method for auditory learners. The system comprises recording means for capturing, digitizing, storing, and indexing voice statements; and means for allowing an auditory learner to search said indexing for desirable voice statements. The learning system further comprises means for playing on demand and broadcasting said desired voice statements to said auditory learner; means for creating an auditory live session for said learner; and means for mining said voice statements for emerging subject matter and to create new voice statements for playing on demand to said learner. The preferred embodiment of the invention is a new deployment vehicle for informal learning cultivated within a Community of Practice and broadcast over IP.

Abstract: A sports skill evaluation system is provided which can perform a detailed skill analysis based on the level, match experience, age, sex and so forth of a user, careful advice based on a result of the skill analysis, rearing diagnosis in the future, estimation evaluation with the growth in the future taken into consideration and so forth. Individual application coefficients stored in a coefficient table in advance are referred to based on basic user data of the user including the level, match experience, age and sex and a score according to a result of a match to calculate skill item points for individual skills required for the match, and diagnosis graphs for the individual skills are produced from the calculated skill item points for the individual skills. The level, match experience, age and sex of the user are converted into numerical values, and a comment pattern designation value is calculated for each skill item in accordance with a predetermined calculation expression from the numerical values.

Abstract: An apparatus for viewing information includes a wireless interactive monitor including a screen for displaying the information and adapted to receive the information wirelessly and a surgeon scrub sink for allowing a surgeon to sterilize the hands of the surgeon, positioned under the wireless interactive monitor.

Abstract: An interactive, handheld apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a housing, a display screen on the housing, an electronic position location system, a stylus for selecting images on the display screen, a directional control pad on the housing and a memory device. The electronic position location system includes a processor that is capable of determining a location of a selected region of the display screen. The memory device includes computer code for an educational game and is operatively coupled to the processor. A light is associated with the stylus. The light is illuminated to indicate that the stylus is available for use during operation of the educational game.

Abstract: A method of distributing educational content over a network is disclosed. Educational content is divided into topics and the topics are split into smaller educational units. Professionals reviewing the material for accreditation purposes choose particular units to study and are subject to minimum and maximum time parameters. The partitioning of educational topics allows advertisers to deliver episodic advertising over an extended time period.

Abstract: A system and method for analyzing the cognitive involvement of one or more audience members may include receiving a first indication of cognitive involvement of an audience member in a presentation and calculating a cognitive involvement score from the first indication.

Abstract: A system and method enable processing and displaying of test results in accordance with information and specifications provided by the client requiring such services. Skills examined by a test are identified, and skill-by-skill analysis of test results is provided. Performance within constituent skill categories are compared to applicable standards, thereby providing criterion-referenced conclusions about a student's performance within each skill category tested. Evaluation and recommendation statements are generated for students or groups of students based on their test performance and procedures for automatically generating such statements are provided. Test results are also used to identify skills in which individual students and groups have the greatest potential for growth. Test reports are produced in print and electronically using the same electronic document structures and data source files to ensure consistency between the two display mechanisms.

Abstract: An online reading system, and more particularly to a reading system that allows users to read, listen to, and/or interact with electronic stories in an online (typically, internet-based) environment. In some cases, the electronic stories may be customizable by the user, so that specific personal attributes of the user, such as the user's name, age, favorite animal, and other personal attributes and/or preferences may be incorporated into the story.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-split screen image with audio feed to document the training engagement. The multi video image combines an over-watch thermal image, the Loader's actions, the Gunner's actions, and the imagery from the vehicle's thermal imaging system. The audio track documents the communication within the vehicle and between the vehicle and the control tower. Further, the present invention provides a tower control module that also provides surveillance video over the firing range. Until the present invention no other gunnery-training device transmitted and displayed its imagery and audio in this manner.

Abstract: A modular human habitat simulator for providing an environment on Earth that approximates, in a controlled test situation, a number of conditions expected to exist when an inflatable modular habitat is deployed into Earth orbit. The simulator has a housing with a rigid wall defining an internal volume, a longitudinal axis, a first and second opposing openings along the longitudinal axis, the rigid wall having an exterior surface, and an interior surface where the interior surface is generally the shape of an interior surface of a deployed inflatable shell of a modular human habitat, and the internal volume is substantially that of a deployed inflatable modular human habitat volume.

Abstract: A method for creating a summary of an audiovisual presentation initiates with segmenting a frame of the audiovisual presentation. Then, a slide region of the segmented frame is identified. Next, a histogram representing lines in the slide region is generated. Next, moving regions associated with successive frames from the histogram are suppressed. A computer readable medium, a system for providing a real time summarization of a meeting and an integrated circuit are also provided.

Abstract: A system and method for an improved surgical workflow development includes creating and editing a modifiable module used to direct a medical procedure through a sequence of images and functions included in the module. A plurality of users may review and/or evaluate the module to determine what, if any, edits to the module are required. Evaluations of the module may include a research evaluation, a cadaver evaluation or a clinical evaluation. A scripting tool may be used to create or edit the module, where the scripting tool includes a computer programming software application. The module may be stored on a computer-readable memory accessible by a plurality of computers and/or display devices connected to a network. In this way, the system and method provide for rapid dynamic development of surgical workflows contained in modules.

Abstract: The invention provides a system for virtually designing a medical device conformed for use with a specific patient. Using the system, a three-dimensional geometric model of a patient-specific body cavity or lumen is reconstructed from scanned volume images such as obtained x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer tomography (CT), ultrasound (US), angiography or other imaging modalities. Knowledge of the physical properties of the cavity/lumen is obtained by determining the relationship between image density and the stiffness or elasticity of tissues in the body cavity or lumen and is used to model interactions between a simulated device and a simulated body cavity or lumen.

Abstract: A method for curriculum planning using a curriculum planning tool is described. The method includes selecting an academic discipline, a grade level, and a course, entering local objectives to be met by the selected course, and aligning the local objectives with one or more standards. The method also includes mapping the selections, local objectives, and standards into one or more concepts, developing instructional activities for the selected course that teach the concepts, and assessing the curriculum against the standards using criterion-reference assessments based on the instructional activities.

Abstract: A screening evaluation tool of the present invention provides instructions and mechanisms to probe areas of vision (related to learning). These areas include eye movements used during reading, visual imagery of mental pictorial images generated by viewing, visual recall of mental pictorial images maintained over time, mental manipulation of pictorial images transformed spatially and visual manipulation of mental pictorial images viewed from multiple spatial perspectives. The screening may be conducted remotely from any physical location via the Internet or other network. In addition, the present invention may be utilized for performing therapy, screening tests or more formal evaluations over the Internet. The screening tests and evaluations may be of multiple varieties and are made available for the purpose of further exploring or ruling out the need for further exploration of areas of dysfunction that relate to reduced performance in learning.

Abstract: A communication system for communicating with students in an education environment includes a plurality of remote units, a base station that receives messages from the remote units, a processor, a memory, and a display simultaneously visible to all users of the remote units. The base station receives a response to a current question from a remote unit. The processor determines whether the current response is a valid response, and uses the display to visually indicate to a user of the remote unit whether the response is valid.

Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method are provided for selecting practice exam questions that reflects the focus of actual exam, a student's preferences, and the student's past performance in particular topics. The system and method are particularly useful for assisting students preparing for an exam, but may be used in general for computerized education. Actual exam information, a student's past performance data and preferences are represented as data tables inside the computer memory. Such past performance data may include an accuracy ratio and the average time spent per question for each topic. A formula is applied to evaluate these data to obtain a numeric measure of the importance of each preferred exam practice topic. The number of practice questions to select per topic is determined based on the numeric measure. Questions from a set of practice questions are selected randomly or deterministically for each topic.

Abstract: A client machine receives Web data including a learning material part from a learning server in an e-Learning center to display it as an Web page. The Web page includes a circle graph that represents the intelligibility of all learners who studied the learning material and a pair of bar graphs that represent the ratio of the achievers in the finishers who could not understand the learning material. A learner can make use of the status information represented by the graphs to his or her learning. After attending the learning material part, a learner clicks an “Understood” button or a “Not Understood” button to inform one's intelligibility to the learning server.

Abstract: A program for self-evaluating and training a user's visual skills. The program including a plurality of evaluation and training exercises. The program being designed to run on a computer having a color monitor.