This article is reprinted with permission from StandardView (volume 4, #1), a publication of the ACM dedicated to improving the standards. The issue, titled "Best Practices for Standardization" was guest-edited by Jonathan Morell, a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at the Industrial Technology Institute's Center for Electronic Commerce. Information on StandardView can be obtained from th...

Granular computing studies a novel approach to computing system modeling and information processing. Although a rich set of work has advanced the understanding of granular computing in dealing with the “to be” and “to have” problems of systems, the “to do” aspect of system modeling and behavioral implementation has been relatively overlooked. On the basis of a recent development in denotational...

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BY Tacey Ann Boucher, A.B.D. Project Coordinator: Center for Addiction and Alternative Medicine Research; Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation Doctoral Candidate: University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology; Minneapolis, Minnesota Thomas J. Kiresuk, Ph.D. Chief Clinical Psychologist: Hennepin County Medical Center; Minneapolis, Minnesota Director: Program Evaluation Resource Center, Min...

The purpose of this study was to explore the barriers to the use of appropriate infant and young child-feeding practices by primary caregivers living in a rural Ugandan district. A community-based qualitative design and focus group discussions were used for collecting data from primary caregivers of children aged 0 to 24 month(s). On an average, each of the four focus group discussions had 11 p...

Student learning style differences have been widely researched in both traditional face-to-face and online learning environments (Irani, Scherler & Harrington, 2003; Steinbronn, 2007; Williamson & Watson, 2007; Ugur, Akkoyunlu & Kurbanoglu, 2001). After conducting a literature review of adult student learning styles and teaching method analysis, it became apparent that there was not a significa...

Copyright: © 2013 Jeske NA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Disorders of the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) have become more prevalent in patients seeking care for joint, muscle, and associated ...

Efforts to understand how to improve the delivery of substance abuse treatment have led to a recent call for studies on the "business of addiction treatment." This study adapts an innovative survey tool to collect baseline management practice data from 147 addiction treatment programs enrolled in the Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment 200 project. Measures of "good" management p...

Palotie U. Restorative treatment practices and dentist-related factors. Department of Oral Public Health, Institute of Dentistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 2009. 72pp. ISBN 978-952-92-6379-0. This study aimed at elucidating real-life aspects of restorative treatment practices. In addition, dentists' views and perceptions of and variation in restorative treatment practices with ...