Libraries exist to serve both the research and instructional missions of their institutions. Supporting the thesis experience of an honors program represents the perfect convergence of these dual mlSSlOns. The pedagogical mandate for the honors thesis experience is found in the 1998 Boyer Commission Report, Reinventing Undergraduate Education, which calls for undergraduate research experiences ...

Background: A coordinated disaster response needs a well-organized structure and a locally adapted framework. In light of this, the COVID-19 pandemic offered an opportunity to renovate the response structure, which exhibited deficiencies during the pandemic. Iran shares the experience of an integrated response structure named the Reform Incidents Command System. It includes an integrated approa...

The North-South Institute (NSI) is working on an innovative project designed to bring a special resource into the picture: health professionals who have emigrated from Africa. Through a project called “The Diaspora Giving Back: Strengthening Health Care Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa”, these professionals will have the opportunity to share their expertise, experience and commitment where it’s ne...

Many adults with learning disabilities experience difficulties communicating food preferences because they may have little opportunity to do so. This article discusses how health care professionals can enable people with learning difficulties to exercise choice about food and how those choices can be recognised.

Virginia Tech's Center for Human-Computer Interaction presents the project abstracts for the REU 2008 symposium. The REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program provides undergraduate students from various universities with the opportunity to spend eight weeks at Virginia Tech, working with our faculty and graduate students on research projects using the state-of-the-art technology and...

Experience has shown that neither drugs nor vaccines can hope to solve the world's enteric disease problems. But oral-fluid therapy, which has sharply reduced cholera mortality, is proving effective in treating other enteric diseases as well. And most developing countries are making real progress in providing the safe water supplies and sanitary conditions that deny enteric pathogens an opportu...

Despite separation by great distances, cultural differences, and language differences, nurses are first and foremost caregivers. Four members of St. Mark Orthodox Church and Family Home Health Services in Sarasota and Bradenton, FL, discuss their opportunity to share resources and experience with health care and social service agencies in the region of Vladimir, Russia.