The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a quasi-experimental study of the effects on student achievement resulting from the redesign of an existing anatomy course for a cohort of Occupational Therapy students. This study was based on a design strategy that combined two different instructional technology approaches to teaching and learning in lectures: (1) content-centered, World W...

An optimal algorithm to do probe selection in causal chains is presented. Probes may have different costs of measurement. The algorithm runs in polynomial time. This research was supported in part by the Ballistic Missile Defense Advanced Technology Center under contract #DASG60-86-C-0015, the Office of Naval Research, under Agreement #N00014-85-K-0008 and the Defense Advanced Research Projects...

The present research is conducted to find out the services and facilities of tobacco companies in promotion of tobacco crop in Malakand division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A multi-stage sampling technique applied for selection sample size. In this method, 135 tobacco growers were selected from fifteen villages of tobacco growers. The principle researcher interviewed selected respondents f...

Pilot projects appear in many forms in policy making and management. In an effort to understand the nature and use of pilot projects and improve their effectiveness, we undertake a practicebased and theoretical study of the pilot project phenomenon. First, we examine the roles assigned to pilot projects in the policy development literature and explore their use in a Dutch water innovation platf...

every country actively and initiatively takes all kinds of policy steps to improve the international competitiveness of its industries and therefore improve national integrated competitiveness for the purpose of gaining economic benefits under the context of economic globalization. therefore, studies of moreover, projects launched by the cluster had to be endorsed by the growers and one criteri...

We review some recent endeavors and add some new results to characterize and understand underlying mechanisms in Wikipedia (WP), the paradigmatic example of collaborative value production. We analyzed the statistics of editorial activity in different languages and observed typical circadian and weekly patterns, which enabled us to estimate the geographical origins of contributions to WPs in lan...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Recent years have witnessed substantial gains in health insurance coverage for children, but few studies have examined trends across a diverse set of access indicators. We examine US children's access to health services and whether trends vary by race/ethnicity and income. METHODS Analysis of 178 038 children ages 0 to 17 from the 2000 to 2014 National Health Intervie...

OBJECTIVE To document changes in type of financing for office-based visits for the treatment of common skin conditions and to dermatologists. DESIGN Data from a national survey of visits to office-based practitioners conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics were used. The stratified sampling technique permits estimation of the total number of office visits with specific characte...