duced ‘School Oral Health Programme in Kuwait’ and ‘Mobile Dental Care Services in Kuwait’ with a video film. In addition to the WHOCC for Primary Oral Health Care, there is another WHOCC for Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome in Kuwait, which was introduced by Dr. Haya Altawalah. In this centre, research integral to the WHO’s efforts to combat AIDS is conducted. In addition to annual workshop...

z z A real Marshall Plan would have to work as a ‘structural adjustment programme’, in much the same way as its famous predecessor, namely by achieving reforms through strong conditionality in return for serious money. To be credible the funds would have to be committed, but only released when reforms had been implemented satisfactorily – similar to the deal that worked in the context of EU enl...

This paper proposes an educational design plan for two modules within a professional development programme at UNITEC, about learning and teaching online. These modules address the areas of moderating online discussions, and online assessment. The application of the “SCARIE” model (a set of guidelines for effective online learning) to the educational design is described. Plans for the implementa...

background over the past few decades diabetes has emerged as an important non-communicable disease in subsaharan africa (ssa). sight loss from diabetic retinopathy (dr) can be prevented with screening and early treatment. the objective of this paper is to outline the required actions and considerations in the planning and development of dr screening services.   methods a multiple-case study app...

BACKGROUND Strategies are needed to help general practitioners (GPs) promote smoking cessation as recommended by guidelines. This study examines whether the quality of action planning among GPs improves their provision of smoking cessation care. METHODS The effectiveness of a 1-h training programme was examined in a cluster randomised controlled trial in which 49 GPs participated. GPs who fol...

In this paper, a new higher-level action language called H Simple (R) is introduced. Language H Simple (R) is based on (locally) stratiied logic program Apt et al., 1988] and can treat concurrent actions and continuous changes. Also, it can handle implication rules (ramiication) under the implication restriction. This work is the extension of Language H Hayashi, 1996] which can handle only a di...

We present a view on software systems and emphasize that a software system creates the user’s conceptual model. Regarding a software developer as a user, we point out the existence of a gap between the conceptual model of a software development system and the software developer’s conceptual model of a software system. To minimize this gap, extending software development systems to support archi...

There has been widespread interest within institutions of higher education to measure learning outcomes. This has resulted in considerable debate on how to best define, measure, and achieve quality learning outcomes assessment. Yet, there has been no development of electronic processes and tools for continuous program assessment and feedback. This project addresses this challenge, with a $200K ...

instituto universitario de lisboa abstract Despite the accumulated evidence that retention is an ineffective and potentially harmful remedial strategy, several countries struggle with high levels of retention in compulsory schooling. This article provides evidence of the impact of the Portuguese national educational policy “Programa Mais Sucesso Escolar” (PMSE) using class size, class compositi...

This paper introduces an approach for dealing with underspecified spatial and temporal relations during early stage spatio-temporal planning in large-scale unfamiliar environments. For that purpose a partial spatio-temporal constraint satisfaction algorithm is introduced. The algorithm operates on a qualitative as well as metric representation of the given spatio-temporal relations. In order to...