When speaking about the value component of character education, one usually means, first and foremost, content education associated with educational goals. A look at current network resources only confirms this impression. For example, authors online publications deal mainly problems patriotic, civic, ecological, democratic education; to a lesser extent, also moral (which is often reduced patri...

Single photon emission tomography allows the imaging of dynamic brain functioning. The use of cerebral activating procedures within the scan protocol enables investigation of the mechanisms involved in specific brain functions in health and disease. Activation studies involve the comparison of at least two data sets describing brain activity generated in conditions that differ for the specific ...

This article presents a new model, Evidence-Based Practice Improvement, for improving patient care. The model merges 2 extant paradigms currently used for quality improvement initiatives— evidence-based practice and practice or performance improvement. The literature expounds on the virtues of each of these approaches, yet no authors have moved beyond parallel play between them. The merged mode...

Nutritional immunology is the study of the relationship between food and the immune system. It evolved with the study of immune deficiencies caused by malnutrition. However, because of technological advances made over the past few decades, malnutrition is no longer the main cause of lowered immune status in otherwise healthy people/animals. Rather, life stage (neonate or old age) and natural st...