Objective: To evaluate the cost effectiveness of a spinal care lecture (conducted by a chiropractor) in reducing the number of spinal injuries and their associated costs in the workplace.Method: A lecture was designed to increase employees awareness of spinal injury and how it might be prevented. The lecture was designed following a work-place inspection, to assess the most likely risk factors ...

Introduction: In recent years, medical education has changed dramatically and many medical schools in the world have been trying for expand modern training methods. Purpose of the research is to appraise the medical students of teacher-based and student-based teaching methods in Infectious diseases course, in the Medical School of Hormozgan Medical Sciences University. Methods: In this interven...

critically ill patient transfer is potentially risky and may be lead to morbidity and mortality. physicians' skill is very important for safe transport. we want to evaluate the effect of clinical course teaching on the promotion of physicians' abilities in the transport of critically ill patients. in an interventional study, 320 interns, male and female, were taught about patient transfer in tw...

This paper presents recent advances in Automatic Speech Recognition for the Czech Language. Improvements were achieved both in acoustic and language modeling. We mainly aim on the acoustic part of the issue. The results are presented in two contexts, the lecture recognition and SpeeCon+Temic test set. The paper shows the impact of using advanced modeling techniques such as HLDA, VTLN and CMLLR....

A culturally appropriate educational intervention was developed and directed towards farming families in Menoufia governorate, Egypt, to improve their knowledge and practices in protecting their children from exposure to pesticides. Parents were randomly assigned to either a lecture or videotape training group. Ability to recall information or improve practices among parents was evaluated in 3 ...