Rehearsals for the show began Monday and will continue daily until the dress rehearsal on March IS. The parts in the cast have been assigned as follows: Frederic, the hero, Charles kobson, '34; Mabel, the heroine, and a daughter of tlie Major General Stanley, Anthony Sroka, '32; the Major General, Alfred 1). Basch, '31 ; bis daughters, Kate, Isabel and Edith, Bernard S. kerhel, '33, Robert Kobi...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have not yet been widely introduced to secondary school geography education in Finland. However, in the outline of the new national curriculum for upper secondary schools, GIS is incorporated into the elective, advanced geography course. The Finnish universities will therefore face new challenges in reconstructing their degree requirements for geography te...

BACKGROUND Social franchising programs in low- and middle-income countries have tried using the standard wealth index, based on the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) questionnaire, in client exit interviews to assess clients' relative wealth compared with the national wealth distribution to ensure equity in service delivery. The large number of survey questions required to capture the wealth ...

BACKGROUND The use of mobile apps in health care is growing. Current and future practitioners must be equipped with the skills to navigate and utilize apps in patient care, yet few strategies exist for training health care professional students on the usage of apps. OBJECTIVE To characterize first-year pharmacy student use of medical apps, evaluate first-year pharmacy student's perception of ...

Effective marketing depends on knowledge of customer behavior and competition. This is especially true for location-based marketers who risk sending alerts at inopportune moments or to the wrong targets. This study analyzes check-ins around Times Square in New York City using Foursquare, a location-based mobile application. The findings reveal interesting patterns of certain consumer segments f...

The authors thank SL Smith for technical assistance, NM Magoski for evaluation of previous drafts of the manuscript, and the two anonymous reviewers for constructive criticism of the work. KEG held a RS McLaughlin Fellowship and NSM holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator Award. Supported by a CIHR operating grant to NSM. Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (April 2...

Ionospheric scintillation has a great impact on radio propagation and electronic system performance, thus is extensively studied currently. The influence of scintillation on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is particularly evident, making GNSS an effective medium to study characteristics of scintillation. Ionospheric scintillation varies greatly in relation with temporal and spatial di...

Many current and potential AI applications are intended to operate in dynamic environments, including those with multiple agents. As a result, standard AI plan-generation technology must be augmented with mechanisms for managing changing information, for focusing attention when multiple events occur, and for coordinating with other planning processes. The DIPART testbed (Distributed, Interactiv...

Objective The Florida Department of Health (FDOH), Bureau of Epidemiology, partnered with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) to improve surveillance methods in post disaster or response events. A new process was implemented for conducting surveillance to monitor injury and illness for those presenting for...