Introduction S tudents not reading proficiently by the end of 3rd grade are four times more likely than proficient readers to drop out of high school. 1 This fact and other recent research on the importance of early literacy skills have culminated in an intense focus on improving 3rd-grade reading proficiency. The challenges of improving literacy are, in turn, causing more state leaders to conf...

INTRODUCTION Health records (HRs) are crucial to quality patient care. The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine begins teaching health record (HR) writing during the second-year clinical skills courses. Prior to this project, we used a cumbersome paper system to allow graduate assistants to grade and give feedback on students' HRs. This study discusses the development and evaluat...

BACKGROUND School-based programs to combat childhood obesity often lack resources to incorporate strong evaluation components. This paper describes a collaborative evaluation conducted by partners implementing Active Living by Design (ALbD) programs at one Chicago elementary school. PURPOSE To assess ALbD program outcomes by triangulating various forms of evidence gathered while implementing ...

This study was designed to investigate changes in personal attributes of high-school dropout students between 8th grade and 12th grade. Students who participated in 3 waves of data collection in the "National Educational Longitudinal Study: 1988-1994" in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades, but who dropped out before completing high school, were identified. Scales were developed on rational and empi...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to explore how young people in Sweden who neither work nor study perceive life experiences in relation to health and well-being. METHODS A task-based interview technique was used and data was analysed with qualitative content analysis. Interviews were conducted with 16 participants aged 16-20 who were unemployed and not eligible for upper secondary school, or...

A 13 years male was referred to the Learning Disability Clinic with the complaint of illegible handwriting, dropping academic grades with a possibility of dysgraphia. The handwriting fluency and legibility deteriorated in time controlled situations such as examinations. He was slow in copying but had no issues with concentration, retrieval and had a good memory. Family history of tremors in fat...

The Internet architecture is currently being extended to support differentiated services. These extensions allow assignment of different levels of drop precedence to IP packets. With precedence levels, isolated forwarding of in profile packets can be offered. When offering such differentiated forwarding, it is important that the utilization of congested links does not get degraded due to effect...

BACKGROUND Recent meta-analyses have found small-moderate positive associations between general performance in medical school and postgraduate medical education. In addition, a couple of studies have found an association between poor performance in medical school and disciplinary action against practicing doctors. The aim of this study was to examine if a sample of Danish residents in difficult...

Unstructured, outdoor play combined with character development instruction has shown preliminary associations with improved cognitive functioning and classroom behaviors. The purpose of this study was to further evaluate these components of the LiiNK Project (Let’s inspire innovation ’N Kids) when including intervention and comparison school children. The intervention consists of four 15-min re...

We explore the advantages of intelligently dropping a small fraction of packets that arrive for transmission over a time varying wireless downlink. Without packet dropping, the optimal energy-delay tradeoff conforms to a square root tradeoff law, as shown by Berry and Gallager (2002). We show that intelligently dropping any non-zero fraction of the input rate dramatically changes this relation ...