Stepping stones: Principal career paths and school outcomes.

Impact of Stepping Stones on incidence of HIV and HSV-2 and sexual behaviour in rural South Africa: cluster randomised controlled trial

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of Stepping Stones, a HIV prevention programme, on incidence of HIV and herpes simplex type 2 (HSV-2) and sexual behaviour. DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING 70 villages (clusters) in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. PARTICIPANTS 1360 men and 1416 women aged 15-26 years, who were mostly attending schools. INTERVENTION Stepping S...

Divergent Paths or Stepping Stones: A Comparison of Scientists’ Advising and Founding Activities

Extending Retrieval with Stepping Stones and Pathways IIS-0307867 Principal Investigator

This project researches an alternative interpretation of user queries and presentation of the results. Instead of returning a ranked list of documents, the result of a query is a connected network of chains of evidence. Each chain is made of a sequence of additional concepts (stepping stones). Each concept in the sequence is logically connected to the next and previous one, and the chains provi...

The effectiveness of Stepping stones Triple P: the design of a randomised controlled trial on a parenting programme regarding children with mild intellectual disability and psychosocial problems versus care as usual

BACKGROUND Children with an intellectual disability are at increased risk of psychosocial problems. This leads to serious restrictions in the daily functioning of the children and to parental stress. Stepping Stones Triple P aims to prevent severe behavioural, emotional and developmental problems in children with a (intellectual) disability by enhancing parenting knowledge and skills, and the s...

Design Issues in Stepping Stone Detection

In the rapid changing inter-connected environment, cyber criminals are opting sophisticated tools to hide their identities and locations. Stepping stones are now popular among the miscreants and making the situations worse. The paper details the role of stepping stones in hiding the cyber criminals and highlights it as challenge to differentiate the stepping stones from legitimate computers in ...