This case study examines the challenges faced and resources employed by a preservice science teacher throughout his teacher preparation program. Challenges included an absence of supported space in field experiences, intense emotions associated with learning, and establishing “effective” relationships with students. Supports included affordances offered by program sequence, program coherence, a...

UNLABELLED We sought to determine whether an extensive behavioral preparation program for children undergoing surgery is more effective than a limited behavioral program. The primary end point was child and parent anxiety during the preoperative period. Secondary end points included behavior of the child during the induction of anesthesia and the postoperative recovery period. Several days befo...

Introduction: The nursing profession must be pursued through higher education. Practice vehicles, such as hospitals require students to pass a skills test before they can practice. Nursing Study Program, FIKES UMM, has implemented matriculation program for who will join the Profession. This activity been carried out long time and undergone several method changes produce more effective outputs. ...

We present Assemble!, a program greatly simplifying the preparation of molecular dynamics simulations of polymeric systems. The program is controlled either via command line or an intuitive Graphical User Interface, and runs on all major operating systems. Assemble! allows the creation of a desired system of polymer chains from constituent monomers, packs the chains into a box according to the ...

This study compared the effectiveness of an Internet-based method with a standard method for preparing adolescent patients scheduled for out-patient tonsillectomy procedures. A two-group experimental design compared adolescents' state anxiety, knowledge acquisition, postoperative pain intensity, and satisfaction with the method of preoperative preparation. Parents' state anxiety and satisfactio...

It is noticeable the greater focus on scientific production in Graduate courses compared to the attention given to the preparation for teaching practices. This is a relevant issue considering the importance of having Masters and Doctors also prepared to form professionals in their area. This article discusses some aspects of the preparation of Graduate level students enrolled in the Teaching Im...

Three presurgical preparation programs were developed and evaluated in an Australian hospital utilizing an additive component design. The component basic to all three preparation programs was modeling. This technique was compared with the additional components of teaching child coping skills and parent coping skills via videotape. Subjects were 28 children between the ages of 4 and 13 years who...

This article reports the initial evaluation results of a new accelerated, job-embedded principal preparation program funded by a Race to the Top Grant (U.S. Department of Education, 2012a) in Florida. Descriptive statistics, t-tests, and chi-square analyses were used to describe the characteristics of a group of potential applicants nominated to the program by their principals. Demographic and ...

UNLABELLED I describe a simple standalone program that assists in the preparation of peptide digestion maps. These are useful for comparative studies and for locating peptides within a primary sequence. The program creates an output file as scalable vector graphics that can then be viewed in a web browser or imported into a graphics-editing program. AVAILABILITY The program, as a standalone e...