The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies was established at Georgia State University with the objective of promoting excellence in the design, implementation, and evaluation of public policy. In addition to two academic departments (economics and public administration), the Andrew Young School houses seven leading research centers and policy programs, including the International Center for Pub...

This paper reports an exploratory study on Singapore secondary and primary school students’ perceptions and behaviors on using a variety of Chinese input methods for Chinese composition writing. Significant behavioral patterns were uncovered and mapped into a cognitive process, which are potentially critical to the training of students in inputting Chinese via computers. Due to the cognitive co...

a Istanbul Aydın University, Vocational School of Health Services, Department of Anesthesiology, Istanbul, Turkey b University of Beykent, School of Medicine, Department of General Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey c Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Trabzon, Turkey d Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Histolog...

Associate Editors Ralph A. Bradshaw, University of California, San Diego Steven P. Briggs, University of California, San Diego Steven A. Carr, Broad Institute, Cambridge Anne-Claude Gavin, EMBL, Heidelberg Gerald W. Hart, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore Timothy Karr, Kyoto Institute of Technology Elise C. Kohn, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Elizabeth A. Komives, Uni...

Author article stakes part in several projects focused just on development of technical creativity and imagination in students of faculties of education, teachers and primary school pupils. The article deals with the teacher’s approach to the teaching of psychomotor skills, while specifically seeking to answer whether among teachers of technical education and practical activities, there are gro...

3 Sabrina Marozin, Jennifer Altomonte, Sibylle Apfel, Phat X. Dinh, Enrico N. De Toni, 4 Antonia Rizzani, Andreas Nüssler, Nobuyuki Kato, Roland M. Schmid, Asit K. Pattnaik 5 and Oliver Ebert 6 7 Department of Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Germany; 8 School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences & the Nebraska Center for Virology, 9 University of Ne...

Peer support is used frequently in addressing the health of young people. Helping Friends builds on the existing peer helping networks in schools to improve the availability, accessibility and appropriateness of social and personal support. It increases young people’s knowledge of and access to referral options (in and out of school) and assists in the development of a safe and supportive schoo...

Information regarding best practices of information technology (IT) management in K-12 schools provides school leaders with a basis for developing their own IT systems or evaluating their existing systems. Important as this information is, limited literature coverage exists on this topic. Over 100 technology audits conducted by graduate students in school organizations in north-east Ohio in the...