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Cherokee choices: a diabetes prevention program in Cherokee, North Carolina.

ncmedicaljournal.com 394 NCMJ vol. 72, no. 5 ncmedicaljournal.com effective in ensuring that culturally relevant approaches are developed. A critical first step is increasing awareness of the behaviors associated with diabetes prevention and control. This is the goal of the American Indian and Alaska Native Workgroup of the National Diabetes Education Program, with initiatives such at the Move ...

How Long Will It Take?

We present a method for approximating the expected number of steps required by a heuristic search algorithm to reach a goal from any initial state in a problem space. The method is based on a mapping from the original state space to an abstract space in which states are characterized only by a syntactic “distance” from the nearest goal. Modeling the search algorithm as a Markov process in the a...

Will Elephants Soon Disappear from West African Savannahs?

Precipitous declines in Africa's native fauna and flora are recognized, but few comprehensive records of these changes have been compiled. Here, we present population trends for African elephants in the 6,213,000 km² Sudano-Sahelian range of West and Central Africa assessed through the analysis of aerial and ground surveys conducted over the past 4 decades. These surveys are focused on the best...

East - West migration : will it be a problem ?

Comparison of key informant and survey methods for ascertainment of childhood epilepsy in West Bengal, India.

BACKGROUND This study aimed to compare efficacy and cost of key informants and survey for ascertainment of childhood epilepsy within a treatment context in rural India. METHODS The study was set in a non-governmental, community programme for the functional and socioeconomic rehabilitation of children with disabilities in rural West Bengal, India. Ascertainment was by two methods: house-to-hou...