Setting the Stage for Character Development through Culturally Specific Advising Practices

Setting the Stage for Improved Practices During Vaccine Injections

Vaccine injections are the most commonly performed medical procedure worldwide. Pain is a salient feature of vaccine injections and contributes to a negative vaccination experience for individuals being vaccinated and onlookers alike.1 Concern about pain is also a documented barrier to future vaccine uptake, and vaccine noncompliance increases the risk for outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disea...

Character Development through Spiritual Leadership

How to develop the character of leaders is a challenging question pursued by managers, psychologists, and consultants. To address this question, the authors introduce a developmental model for character growth. The model proposes that the integration of the leader’s core values and beliefs into the self-identity is at the heart of character development. The supporting character strengths of age...

Best Practices for Culturally Sensitive Data Visualizations

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Setting the stage for onchocerciasis.

Handwritten character recognition through two-stage foreground sub-sampling

In this paper, we present a methodology for off-line handwritten character recognition. The proposed methodology relies on a new feature extraction technique based on recursive subdivisions of the character image so that the resulting sub-images at each iteration have balanced (approximately equal) numbers of foreground pixels, as far as this is possible. Feature extraction is followed by a two...