This three year longitudinal study examined the effects of IQ, age of diagnosis, school socioeconomic status (SES) and participation in desegregation programs on the remediation of learning disabilities. Participants included 176 children who were diagnosed with a learning disability, 44 of whom were participants in a voluntary transfer program. Baseline discrepancies between standardized cogni...

The general framework for approaching residents in difficulty that we present here includes (1) explicit criteria that separate suggestions for improvement from formal remedial action, (2) categorization of the problem into three areas with different approaches (competence, laws and professional standards, and performance and disability), and (3) a method for clarifying faculty roles in the rem...

How do nurse managers make decisions about quality issues on their units? We asked 10 nurse managers in 3 Arizona hospitals to describe how they resolved a recent quality issue. The managers tended to use a linear, but cognitively expensive strategy, often jumping from problem to solution without a clear goal and selecting solutions biased toward remedial education. Decision support tools shoul...

Across a range of contexts, reductions in education costs and provision of subsidies can boost school participation, often dramatically. Decisions to attend school seem subject to peer effects and time-inconsistent preferences. Merit scholarships, school health programs, and information about returns to education can all cost-effectively spur school participation. However, distortions in educat...

This paper argues that, unlike the production-based emissions accounting (on which are attributed to producers of goods and services), consumption-based consumers these services) can solve problem historical emissions. concerns question how assign remedial responsibility for that were made by people who now dead. Since embedded in consumed present consumers, since (unlike past producers) do som...

In this paper, we present a study on the recent approaches in handling Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attack is a fairly new type of attack to cripple the availability of Internet services and resources. A DDos attack can originate from anywhere in the network and typically overwhelms the victim server by sending a huge number of packets. Several remedial measures have been ...

The specialist psychiatric services available in India is insufficient to meet the mental health needs of the country. Training of general practitioners in psychiatry through short courses is one of the remedial strategies. In 1982-83, an ICMR Multi-Centre Project of Training in Psychiatry for Non-Psychiatrist Primary Care Doctors was successfully completed at Bangalore, Hyderabad and Vellore u...

Numerous scholars have applied conceptual graphs for explanatory purposes. This study devised the ‘Remedial-Instruction Decisive path (RID path)’ algorithm for diagnosing individual student learning situation. This study focuses on conceptual graphs. According to the concepts learned by students and the weight values of relations among these concepts, this study established the remedial-instruc...

When Sir George Clark wrote the official history of the College of Physicians he based much of his research on the private annals of the institution.' His work centred round the constitutional growth and structure ofthe College and proved to be extremely valuable in outlining its organic development throughout four hundred years of existence. The very scale of this task meant that the history w...