We summarise the results of a survey of Spoken Language Engineering Education in Europe. We highlight the multidisciplinary nature of the field and the consequences this has for teaching. The survey indicates a wide variety in the breadth and depth of coverage of SLE.

In the past, most public health and social science research focused on deficits when considering the well-being of American adolescents whose families were originally from Latin America.* That is, the research focused either on problems (such as rates of HIV infection, unintended pregnancy, school dropout, or gang membership) or unmet need (such as health insurance coverage or culturally approp...

the more clearly the clinician comprehends the processes of clinical perception and of linking the experience with explanation, the more thoughtfully clinical students can be guided to construct an accurate 'clinical memory' of cases, and to construct a sound 'working knowledge' structure from their personal 'examined experience'. the structuring of the steps of cl...

Appendix D analyzes the bivariate relationships between a number of demographic and household factors and the likelihood of an adolescent being without health coverage. These include: parent’s insurance status, poverty and family income, adolescents’ living arrangements, race and ethnicity, parent’s marital status, parent’s education region and residence, and parent’s work status and other empl...

The project focuses on examining the advantages of random verification with real examples. Random verification has two necessary parts, hierarchical testbench and coverage metrics. The layered testbench allows a verifier to improve the coverage by only modifying the randomization constraints at the highest level of abstraction. Although it might take a verifier more time to build such hierarchi...

Introduction Low-quality education is an endemic problem in most developing countries. International tests of student achievement consistently show that developing countries score at the bottom of the performance scale. In many countries, raising education quality has replaced expanding coverage as the principal challenge facing education ministries. In fact, a recent study by Hanushek titled “...

Despite evidence that nutrition interventions reduce morbidity and mortality, malnutrition, including obesity, remains highly prevalent in hospitals and plays a major role in nearly every major chronic disease that afflicts patients. Physicians recognize that they lack the education and training in medical nutrition needed to counsel their patients and to ensure continuity of nutrition care in ...

Despite evidence that nutrition interventions reduce morbidity and mortality, malnutrition, including obesity, remains highly prevalent in hospitals and plays a major role in nearly every major chronic disease that afflicts patients. Physicians recognize that they lack the education and training in medical nutrition needed to counsel their patients and to ensure continuity of nutrition care in ...

Health education is an important profession. The certification of health education specialists (CHES) has evolved in the United States (U.S.) over the past 50 years. This article briefly focuses on the CHES system in the U.S. and research studies related to this topic, including coverage of the CHES responsibilities and competencies by professional school programs in the U.S., as well as other ...