A nurse residency program's best practice recommendations are presented within this article and are organized around three processes: establishing the program infrastructure, creating a multistaged evidence-based program, and sustaining the program through appropriate evaluation and dissemination of results. These recommendations represent lessons learned and key findings derived from a team of...

It is a great pleasure for me to attend the Fourth Annual Forum on City Informatization in the Asian-Pacific Region while having this opportunity to exchange views with the distinguished guests. IT Promotes Development, the theme of the annual forum which fully reveals the significance of sustainable development of informatization and its role in the development. This is a theme which attracts ...

Article history: As urban areas across the U Received 21 February 2007 Received in revised form 2 October 2008 Accepted 18 December 2008 Available online 20 February 2009

If Cities are to be saved from the consequences of climate change and provide healthy human habitats for their growing, yet increasingly vulnerable populations, then natural science, government, and local collective action must cooperate to find, publicize, and implement best scientific practices. This course will try to foster that kind of discovery across disciplinary boundaries. This is the ...

This paper describes an integration of geographic information systems (GIS) and multimedia technologies to create opportunities for people to explore the history of their cities. We have augmented a digital camera with a global positioning system (GPS) and a digital compass to record its position and orientation when ordinary photographs are taken. The metadata are used to retrieve and present ...