Goals - Research News and Information

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

[Research in medical education]

25 Oct 2008 Research in medical education is a relatively new discipline. Over the past 30 years, the discipline has experienced a tremendous growth, which is reflected in an increase in the number of publications in both medical education journals and medical ... Read more...

Active gaze, visual look-ahead, and locomotor control.

29 Sep 2008 The authors examined observers steering through a series of obstacles to determine the role of active gaze in shaping locomotor trajectories. Participants sat on a bicycle trainer integrated with a large field-of-view simulator and steered through ... Read more...

How to stop and change a response: the role of goal activation in multitasking.

29 Sep 2008 Multitasking was studied in the stop-change paradigm, in which the response for a primary GO1 task had to be stopped and replaced by a response for a secondary GO2 task on some trials. In 2 experiments, the delay between the stop signal and the ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Goals'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Fostering hope and wonder. 30 Oct 2008
• Scaling up research and learning for health systems: time to act. 30 Oct 2008
• [Research in medical education] 25 Oct 2008
• [Research guidelines in specialist education] 25 Oct 2008
• Active gaze, visual look-ahead, and locomotor control. 29 Sep 2008
• How to stop and change a response: the role of goal activation in multitasking. 29 Sep 2008
• Long-term aftereffects of response inhibition: memory retrieval, task goals, and cognitive control. 29 Sep 2008
• The posterior parietal cortex encodes in parallel both goals for double-reach sequences. 29 Sep 2008
• Environmental economics. Development and conservation goals in World Bank projects. 17 Sep 2008
• Return to Alma-Ata. 11 Sep 2008
• Primary health care must go beyond WHO. 11 Sep 2008
• Primary health care: making Alma-Ata a reality. 11 Sep 2008
• How do cancer patients manage unattainable personal goals and regulate their emotions? 30 Aug 2008
• The perils of dimensionalization: challenges in distinguishing negative traits from personality disorders. 30 Aug 2008
• American Pediatric Society's 2008 John Howland award acceptance lecture: life goals for academic pediatrics. 30 Aug 2008
• Supervision of facilitators in a multisite study: goals, process, and outcomes. 30 Aug 2008
• HAI prevention emphasized in 2009 National Patient Safety Goals. 30 Aug 2008
• Accounting for self-selected drinking goals in the assessment of treatment outcome. 30 Aug 2008
• Nursing students' expectations of the college experience. 30 Aug 2008
• Developing a comprehensive life plan, Part 2: 365 days of freedom. 30 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Goals'

Definition: The end-result or objective, which may be specified or required in advance.

Descriptor UI: D006040

Alternative terms: Goals; Goal;

Related Mesh Headings: Intention;

Tree Number: F01.658.500;

Online Note: use GOALS to search GOAL 1975-78; use MOTIVATION 1969-74

History Note: 79; was GOAL see under MOTIVATION 1969-78

Technical Notes: no qualif