An "American-style" pediatric trauma care symposia consisting of lectures, workshops, and skill stations was held at a pediatric trauma center to improve pre- and post-hospital care for children, facilitate communication, and to set up standards within the regional rescue chain.

This study looks at the limits and possibilities of an online game designed to build knowledge and awareness in adolescents in the field of affections, sexuality and reproduction. It evaluates the experience of a group of teenagers with a game called Papo Reto ('Straight Talk'), over a period of three months. A total of 23 teenagers aged 15 to 18 took part in the study. The data were collected ...

Bruce R. Johnson, Eric P. Wiertelak, Julio J. Ramirez, and Karen Parfitt 1 Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; 2 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Studies Program, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN 55105; 3 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 28035; 4 Department of Neuroscience, Pomona College, Clare...

To address these challenges in the NEP, we used an online web application called Stats Report. Built on the R statistical package, Stats Report allows complex data analysis to be undertaken more easily and collaboratively. We used Stats Report in data analysis workshops with government staff in Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Statistical experts from our team prepared analysis code, and...

I summarize the prospects for discovering and studying the properties of Higgs particles at future high–energy and high–luminosity ee linear colliders. I will focus on the Higgs particle of the Standard Model and the Higgs bosons predicted by Supersymmetric theories. Plenary talk given at the International Workshops on Linear Colliders (LCWS99) Sitges, Barcelona, Spain, on April 28-May 5, 1999 ...

BACKGROUND Ineffective district health management potentially impacts on health system performance and service delivery. However, little is known about district health managing practices and time allocation in resource-constrained health systems. Therefore, a time use study was conducted in order to understand current time use practices of district health managers in Ghana. METHODS All 21 dis...

The 2006 Topology Festival had a concentration of speakers in algebraic topology with approximately half the talks being in this area, and two of the speakers, Jesper Grodal and Gunnar Carlsson, giving introductory workshops on the subject. The speakers featured in a panel discussion on Saturday 20th May in which they presented some recent results, not their own, that had caught their attention...

This appendix describes the planning, conduct, and initial results of an interdisciplinary workshopon the theme "Autonomous Flying Systems". The purpose of the workshop was to assemblerepresentatives and achieve multi-discipline synergies and cross discipline transfers to generatepromising research directions for "Autonomous Flying Systems." The total workshop process consisted of t...

Equity measures and attempts at inclusivity in the university, such as harassment policies and prejudice reduction workshops, tend to treat sexism, racism, and other forms of marginalization and exclusion as attitudinal and individualistic properties. Through discussion of a critical incident in which I was involved, I argue that sexism and racism are systemic; they are power relations that hav...

Engaging community partners to work as co-researchers and research assistants for research involving Inuit communities or regions helps to ensure the equitable recognition of community and researcher priorities, mutual trust and respect, participation by local participants, inclusion of local knowledge and local uptake of research findings. However, research knowledge still in development among...