BACKGROUND In 2002, Swiss citizens voted to accept new laws legalising the termination of pregnancy (TOP) up to 12th week of pregnancy. As a result the cantons formulated rules of implementation. Health institutions then had to modify their procedures and practices. QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY/PRINCIPLES One of the objectives of these changes was to simplify the clinical course for women who decide...

We present a Web-based French-language educational-software tool, French e-Flash Card (FFC), authored using our Intensional Markup Language (IML). The FFC site is interactive and dynamic and incorporates AI for French language grammar. These special features, lacking in most language educational tools (which are typically language-independent), are made possible by IML, which allows rule-based ...

There is a consensus that the quality of the US education system is deteriorating. This deterioration is evidenced by declining test scores, graduates with inadequate basic skills, increasing dropout rates, and a widening gap between industry needs and student capabilities (Fisher, 1993; Schargel, 1993). Society, on the other hand, has responded to this decline by demanding higher test scores a...

The present study reports a speech production experiment on children who are enrolled in a Francophone K-12 school in Southern Alberta, Canada, a predominantly English-speaking region. Students from grades 1, 3, and 5 were asked to produce a series of French words beginning with one of the six stop consonants (voiced /b/, /d/, & /g/; voiceless /p/, /t/, & /k/). Results revealed no agerelated di...

This study was carried out to ascertain the perception of students on the use of social media for educational purposes. It was conducted in three tertiary institutions in Rivers State. The sample comprised 200 respondents randomly selected from three tertiary institutions in Rivers State. Five research objectives and four null hypotheses were used for the study. Mean scores, ANOVA, multiple com...

Explain the "color of wealth" in the United States and its relationship to education. Describe how the racialized economic wealth divide is structured into the fabric of U.S. institutions, including educational ones. Describe the societal practices that flow from U.S. institutions, especially educational ones, that systemically reproduce inequities and inequalities at the intersection of race a...

BACKGROUND When individuals report figures, they often prefer to round to specific end-digits (e.g. zero). Such preference has been found in reports of body weight, cigarette consumption or blood pressure measurements. Very little is known about self-reported body height. End-digit preference can distort estimates of prevalence and other statistical parameters. This study examines end-digit pre...

p tuberculosis institutions and tuberculosis doctors. Of all the five Scandinavian countries, with about 300 oerculosis institutions, there is only one special ?Ournal and even this is not written in a Scandinavian j^uage, but in English, French, and German. In fua with under twenty-five tuberculosis institutions nle, need for a tuberculosis journal is certainly not in?tk 10US'" and one cannot ...

Virtual worlds are three-dimensional, computer-generated worlds in which users take the form of avatars and use those avatars to interact with objects and other avatars in the virtual world. Virtual worlds are growing in importance in both educational institutions and businesses. Educational institutions have adopted virtual worlds as a medium for instructional delivery whereas businesses are u...