In response to increasing high school graduation requirements along with emerging skills in the workforce, the focus of career academies has evolved from one of keeping students enrolled in high school through graduation to a more robust preparation for college and careers for all students. This new focus may have resulted in a demographic shift in the students participating in career academies...

BACKGROUND Mid-level medical workers play an important role in health systems and hold great potential for addressing the human resource shortage, especially in low- and middle-income countries. South Africa began the production of its first mid-level medical workers - known as clinical associates - in small numbers in 2008. OBJECTIVE We describe the way in which scopes of practice and course...

Understanding residents’ perceptions of the urban form can guide efforts to improve milieu. However, existing research on place perception historic environment has overlooked social dimension and focused isolated quarters, resulting in “zones gentrification.” Thus, a comprehensive analytical framework image inquiry megacity center is proposed address this gap. An online questionnaire distribute...

Heritage shophouses are the primary architectural legacy that has greatly characterised place identity of urban historic district in Malaysia since 17th century through its distinctive design character. In contrast to modern building is seen as contextually isolated from district, heritage successful fitting into due significantly responsive contextual factors. This paper aims systematically re...

Fire played an important role in maintaining and creating conditions suitable for native flora and fauna in the forests of western North America. Recent coarse filter conservation strategies have advocated creating future landscapes that incorporate historic or natural ranges of variability, including fire regimes. Historic fire regimes were variable across the West, and created quite unique co...