BACKGROUND Despite good contraceptive coverage rates, recent studies in Iran have shown an alarmingly high incidence of unplanned pregnancy. OBJECTIVE To determine factors affecting quality of family planning services, a cross-sectional study was performed from June to August 2006 on women visiting urban Primary Health Care clinics in a provincial capital in western Iran. The primary focus of...

To promote significant pedagogical change, the most successful teacher education programmes for the global south happen in the school context. This paper is based on a pre-pilot intervention study of an international education development programme in Bangladesh. Technology enhanced learning, in this case the use of Apple iPods (iPod touch), was used to support teachers’ teaching and learning i...

Technology education in high school is the last stage prior to seeking employment and embarking upon a career or seeking further education. Internet proposes an innovation in educational matters, but specially in higher education. In Mexico, Distance Technological Education allows us to support the population marginated by the conventional educational services. In particular, what is proposed i...

Two-generation programs are relatively new attempts to deal with the nation's social ills. In two-generation programs, services such as early childhood educational programs are offered to children to help them get the best possible start in life, while, at the same time, parents are offered training to help enhance their parenting skills, and education, literacy, or job training to help them be...

In medical settings in Japan, where 25% of the total population is aged ≥65 years, an emphasis has been placed on homecare. Accordingly, nurses face the urgent task of interacting effectively with patients’ families, who are in a position to provide care for patients, in addition to the patients themselves. The aim of the present study was to obtain suggestions for continuing education that pro...

Dan Bloom of MDRC examines policies and programs designed to help high school dropouts improve their educational attainment and labor market outcomes. So called "second-chance" programs, he says, have long provided some combination of education, training, employment, counseling, and social services. But the research record on their effectiveness is fairly thin, he says, and the results are mixe...

In the early days of educational computing, dating roughly from the launch of Sputnik in 1957 to the advent of personal computers, teacher education programs addressed professional development needs for technology through inservice training programs. In 1983, when the report, A Nation at Risk, recommended that students be required to take a high school computer course, it was still unusual for a

OBJECTIVE Plyometric training is widely used in conditioning, power training and in prevention and rehabilitation of injuries in some sports. This study sought to investigate the effect of a three-week plyometric training programme on jump performance and agility in Jamaican national netball players. METHOD Eighteen national netballers participated in a Plyometric training programme. Subjects...

PURPOSE The results of the 2015 National Certified Pharmacy Technician Workforce Survey are described. METHODS A survey was e-mailed to a randomized sample of 5,000 certified pharmacy technicians (CPhTs) throughout the United States, with response reminders employed. Survey items eliciting demographic and work characteristics and work life attitudes were generated from the literature and qual...

This paper studies the application of virtual simulation technology in coal mine, and proposes threedimensional virtual simulation training system for coal mines. This system mainly includes “finger oral” and reduction of accident cases. This paper describes the characteristics and development process of three-dimensional virtual simulation training system which can achieve three-dimensional vi...