Background Congruent with international rising emergency department (ED) demand, a focus on strategies and services to reduce burden on EDs and improve patient outcomes is necessary. Planned re-presentations of non-urgent patients at a regional Australian hospital exceeded 1200 visits during the 2013-2014 financial year. Planned re-presentations perpetuate demand and signify a lack of alternati...

Music training influences both brain structure and function. Musicians who began their training before age six or seven have a larger left planum temporale and corpus callosum. String players have a larger cortical representation of the left hand. Piano, singing, or rhythm instruction before age seven improves performance on spatial-temporal tasks. We sought to determine how type of music train...

Though very often quantitative problem solving is accentuated in physics instruction, psychological as well as educational research indicates that this emphasis is misleading. In an experimental study, we compared physics instruction with a focus on quantitative problem solving to physics instruction with a focus on qualitative problem solving. Initially, students were taught quantitative as we...

Our proposed research agenda centers on building the resources needed for high-quality mathematics instruction. Given that the quality of instruction depends fundamentally on what teachers do with students to develop their mathematical proficiency, and given that what teachers can do depends fundamentally on their knowledge of mathematics, we recommend that the first of the three strands of res...

This paper reviews the experience of Persian designers and planners for creating the most livableand greenery capital city in the hole region of Middle East throughout the 17th Century. New concepts of urban greendevelopment emerged in that time. Some of these ideas where extremely creative and vanguard from there era andstill some of them are the main theoretical basics of urban green planning...

Per its English curriculum, vocabulary instruction is only integrated indirectly in the teaching of reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills Malaysian schools. ESL learners then may overlook variety meanings that a word spelling can offer. This research aims to describe effects explicit approach on 30 Form Two (eighth grade) students from suburban school Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. A descrip...

BACKGROUND There is significant and growing national interest for introducing Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) instruction into allopathic medical education. We measured CAM attitudes, use, and information-seeking behaviors as a baseline to evaluate future planned CAM instruction. METHODS Cross-sectional and longitudinal survey data on CAM attitudes, modality use, and common infor...