Making Schoolbooks

Are the health messages in schoolbooks based on scientific evidence? A descriptive study

BACKGROUND Most textbooks contains messages relating to health. This profuse information requires analysis with regards to the quality of such information. The objective was to identify the scientific evidence on which the health messages in textbooks are based. METHODS The degree of evidence on which such messages are based was identified and the messages were subsequently classified into th...

Making Borders, Making Worlds

On a wintry night, sixty-year-old Gulya was preparing to cross the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan border.1 Although she had made this once simple journey countless times in her life, this would be her final and most dangerous attempt. The decision to undertake it had effectively been made for her by the recent leveling of the home in which she had lived with her husband for some forty years. It was dest...

Making Friends , Making Tools , and Making Symbols by Matt

art. This transition may, in fact, be a requisite one for symbolism to provide any substantive fitness advantage. Until the brain is capable of supporting a level of symbolic complexity such that social life itself can be symbolically organized, then symbolism may be of only marginal consequence. What, then, were the selective factors behind this watershed transition? Social Complexity and Cogn...

Making plasma derived medicines available

Stop making plans; start making decisions.

Many executives have grown skeptical of strategic planning. Is it any wonder? Despite all the time and energy that go into it, strategic planning most often acts as a barrier to good decision making and does little to influence strategy. Strategic planning fails because of two factors: It typically occurs annually, and it focuses on individual business units. As such, the process is completely ...