Lifelong learning is specially linked with the idea of gathering learning instances in order to take them into account. Along life learning can carry out in the context of an institution or outside of it. TRAILER project defines a methodology and technological framework to facilitate the dialogue based on informal learning evidences between the leaners and the people in charge of making decisio...

This Practice Bulletin was developed by the ACOG Committee on Practice Bulletins—Obstetrics, the ACOG Committee on Genetics, and the Society for Maternal–Fetal Medicine Publications Committee with the assistance of Ray Bahado-Singh, MD, and Deborah Driscoll, MD. The information is designed to aid practitioners in making decisions about appropriate obstetric and gynecologic care. These guideline...

Development of food service institution has been initiated by industrialization and has grown rapidly over the last half century. Institutional Food Service includes planning, preparation, distribution and supply of foods outside home. Consumer perceptions towards institutional foods are influenced by marketing, advertising and lifestyle changes. Food service systems/catering units promote new ...

The creation of a concrete plan for preserving a collection of digital objects of a specific institution necessitates the evaluation of available solutions against clearly defined and measurable criteria. This process is called preservation planning and aids in the decision making process to find the most suitable preservation strategy considering the institution’s requirements, the planning co...

Perhaps I can best introduce this discussion of the dynamics of mental retardation with some personal reminiscences. It is now 28 years ago that I first began to work in an institution for the mentally retarded, at Letchworth Village in New York, at that time one of the most distinguished of the institutions for the retarded in the U.S.A. — distinguished particularly because it had a large and ...

Cross infection has been a problem throughout the ages wherever the sick have been housed. It was particularly rife in some of the larger hospitals of Europe in the centuries before Lister, making all but the most imperative operations unthirljable. Pare in the sixteenth century complained that infection at the Hotel Dieu in Paris was so frightful that no operation could rightly be contemplated...

This study investigates the feasibility of performing uterine artery embolization (UAE) via transradial access (TRA). Growing evidence demonstrates significant benefits of TRA versus standard transfemoral access during percutaneous coronary intervention, now making it the preferred approach at many centers worldwide. At a single institution from March 2013 to October 2013, 29 consecutive patien...

OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY Committee on Practice Bulletins—Obstetrics. This Practice Bulletin was developed by the Committee on Practice Bulletins—Obstetrics with the assistance of Dwight J. Rouse, MD. The information is designed to aid practitioners in making decisions about appropriate obstetric and gynecologic care. These guidelines should not be construed as dictating an exclusive course of tr...

OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY Committee on Practice Bulletins—Obstetrics. This Practice Bulletin was developed by the Committee on Practice Bulletins—Obstetrics with the assistance of Brian M. Casey, MD. The information is designed to aid practitioners in making decisions about appropriate obstetric and gynecologic care. These guidelines should not be construed as dictating an exclusive course of tre...