Experiences of autism-spectrum disorder are now increasingly studied by social scientists. Human-animal relations have also become a major focus of social inquiry in recent years. Examining horse-assisted therapy for autistic spectrum disorders, this is the first paper that brings these fields together. Drawing on participant observation and interviews at a UK horse therapy Centre, this article...

BACKGROUND Young children are one of the most vulnerable groups who may be infected with cholera. The following literature review of the efficacy of the currently available cholera vaccines provides a clear evidence base for the clinical administration of cholera vaccine, particularly in an epidemic situation. AIM To assess the efficacy of oral cholera vaccines in preventing cases of cholera ...

Semi-automatic wrapper generation tools aim to ease the task of building structured views over web sources. But the wrapper generation techniques presented up to date show several weaknesses when dealing with the complex commercial web sources of today, specially when constructing advanced navigational sequences for accessing data. We present Wargo, a semi-automatic wrapper generation tool, whi...

Building probabilistic and decision-analytic models requires a considerable knowledge engineering eeort in which obtaining numerical parameters is especially daunting. Often knowledge engineers combine various sources of information, such as information reported in textbooks and professional literature , available statistics, and data collected in practical settings. We show that combining prob...

There is currently great interest in building information mediators that can integrate information from multiple data sources such as database systems or Web sources. An issue in building information mediators is how to make them responsive given the high response time for retrieving data from the data sources being integrated, which are databases or Web servers residing remotely. We present an...

The process of building Data Warehouses (DW) is well known with well defined stages but at the same time, mostly carried out manually by IT people in conjunction with business people. Web Warehouses (WW) are DW whose data sources are taken from the web. We define a flexible WW, which can be configured accordingly to different domains, through the selection of the web sources and the definition ...

Building probabilistic and decision-analytic models requires a considerable knowledge engineering eeort in which obtaining numerical parameters is especially daunting. Often knowledge engineers combine various sources of information, such as information reported in textbooks and professional literature , available statistics, and data collected in practical settings. We show that combining prob...

Background: Breastfeeding self-efficacy is a psychological effective factor on initiation and duration of breastfeeding, which according to Bandura's theory, is affected by four sources including performance accomplishments, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasion, and the emotional/physiological responses. We aimed t...