BACKGROUND The Consortium of Hospitals Advancing Research on Tobacco (CHART) is a network of six projects and a research coordinating unit funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research. The CHART projects will assess the eff...

OBJECTIVES To determine the smoking cessation/reduction services offered to pregnant women by federally funded Healthy Start projects designed to reduce infant mortality. DESIGN Information was obtained by questionnaires sent to all Healthy Start projects in 1999. Responses were received from 76 sites. SETTING The federal government selected the Healthy Start sites on the basis of infant mo...

A portion of this research was undertaken as part of the Ptolemy project, which is supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U. S. Air Force (under the RASSP program, contract F33615-93-C-1317), Semiconductor Research Corporation (project 94-DC-008), National Science Foundation (MIP-9201605), Office of Naval Technology (via Naval Research Laboratories), the State of California ...

Violent interactions between parent and child, and between spouses, occur at a high rate in the United States. In response to this situation, several federal agencies are involved in various research projects whose goal is a better understanding of the roots of violence. Among these agencies are the Division of Injury Epidemiology and Control (Centers for Disease Control), the Office of Minorit...

A portion of this research was undertaken as part of the Ptolemy project, which is supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U. S. Air Force (under the RASSP program, contract F33615-93-C-1317), Semiconductor Research Corporation (project 94-DC-008), National Science Foundation (MIP-9201605), Office of Naval Technology (via Naval Research Laboratories), the State of California ...

Exceptional capacity to multitask: manage numerous tasks with ease while providing consultation on several projects. Several years of experience including emergency and risk counseling, development and delivery of several public health and emergency preparedness trainings, and the management and coordination of office staff for a wide range of activities. Recognized as a national expert and tra...

The principle? underlying a computer-based treatment method for language Jcquis'tion in nonspeaking autistic children are described. The main principle involves encouragement of exploratory learning with minimum aduIt i nter ference. This research is supported by Gran> PHS MH 88645-11 from the National Institute of Mental Health, and by (in part) by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the ...

This paper explains three new important enhancements to Synote, the freely available, award winning, open source, web based application that makes web hosted recordings easier to access, search, manage, and exploit for learners, teachers and other users. The facility to convert and import narrated PowerPoint PPTX files means that teachers can capture and caption their lectures without requiring...