maleki mr1 (phd), nasrollahpour shirvani sd1 * (phd candidate), motlagh me2 (md), tofighi s3 (phd), kabir mj4 (phd candidate), jafari n4 (md)     1 department of health services management, faculty of management and medical sciences,   iran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran   2 department of pediatrics, jendishapour university of medical sciences, ahvaz, iran   3 department of health...

The innovative practice that resulted from the Ottawa Charter challenges public health knowledge about programming and evaluation. Specifically, there is a need to formulate program theory that embraces social determinants of health and local actors' mobilization for social change. Likewise, it is imperative to develop a theory of evaluation that fosters reflexive understanding of public health...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Although preventive dental visits are considered important for maintaining pediatric oral health, there is relatively little research showing that they reduce subsequent nonpreventive dental visits or costs. At least 1 study seemed to find that early preventive dental care is associated with more restorative and emergency visits. Previous studies are limited by their i...

Parabhdeep (Prabh) Lail, BSc, is an MD/MSc student in the Leaders in Medicine program in the Undergraduate Medical Education Program and Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. Krista Wilkinson obtained her MSc at the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary and is currently a Field Epidemiologist with th...

In this PhD project, we deal with the issue of code duplication in logic programs. In particular semantical duplication or redundancy is generally viewed as a possible seed of inconvenience in all phases of the program lifecycle, from development to maintenance. The core of this research is the elaboration of a theory of semantical duplication, and of an automated program analysis capable of de...

To address the underrepresentation of ethnic minorities in research-focused nursing doctoral programs, Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) Division of Nursing has partnered with Duke University School of Nursing to establish a Bridge to the Doctorate program. This program provides a research honors track for graduate nursing students from underrepresented minority groups who are enrolled at W...

Zubin Austin, PhD, Della Croteau, MCEd, Anthony Marini, PhD, and Claudio Violato, PhD a Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto b Ontario College of Pharmacists c University of Calgary Continuous professional development has emerged as a significant issue for pharmacy educators across North America. As a result of major regulatory changes governing pharmacy practice, the province ...

Previous research has shown that the Meyerhoff Scholars Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is an effective intervention for high-achieving underrepresented minority (URM) students; African-American Meyerhoff students are significantly more likely to enter science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) PhD programs than comparison students. The first of two studie...

These are the notes to accompany a course at the Marktoberdorf PhD summer school in 2011. The course consists of an introduction to separation logic, with a slant towards its use in automatic program verification and analysis.