Despite the availability of screening, benefits of early detection are not realized by Native Hawaiian (NH) women who as a group have the highest breast cancer incidence and mortality rates of all major ethnic groups in Hawai`i. According to the American Cancer Society, the incidence and mortality rates for NH women are 162.4 and 31 per 100,000, respectively, in comparison to women of all races...

BACKGROUND Data from BreastScreen Australia Screening and Assessment Services (SAS) for 2002-2010 were analysed to determine whether some SAS characteristics were more conducive that others to high screening performance, as indicated by high priority performance indicators and standards. MATERIALS AND METHODS Indicators investigated related to: numbers of benign open biopsies, screen-detected...

Due to the continuing linguistic and cultural diversity among K-12 students in the US and across the Englishspeaking world and the increasing influence of digital technologies on learning, this qualitative study explores pre-service teachers’ perceptions of learning a foreign language online, and how such experience influence teaching linguistically, culturally, and technologically diverse stud...

Abstract In today’s multilingual lexical databases, the majority of world’s languages are under-represented. Beyond a mere issue resource incompleteness, we show that existing databases have structural limitations result in reduced expressivity on culturally-specific words and mapping them across languages. particular, meaning space dominant languages, such as English, is represented more accur...

The community navigator model was developed to assist four culturally and linguistically diverse communities (Sudanese, Burmese, Pacific Islander Group, Afghani) in south-east Queensland to negotiate the Australian health system and promote health. Using participatory action research, we developed the model in partnership with community leaders and members, the local health department and two n...