This paper reviews the development of the Medical Financial Assistance program (MFA) in rural China, including design and implementation processes, and assesses major areas for improvement. Jointly financed by the central and local governments, MFA provides cash assistance to poor households for the purchase of medical services. Because policy design and implementation are decentralized to loca...

since plato is regarded as the first philosopher who started writing on aesthetics and impacted upon artistic aesthetics following him, a review of his perspective on artistic aesthetic is of crucial importance. although fine arts in its current form have not existed at the time of plato, his ideas could be discovered from what he has sporadically expressed on fine arts. there are two viewpoint...

1 Department of Chemistry and Biosciences, SASTRA University, Srinivasa Ramanujan Centre, Kumbakonam612001, Tamilnadu, India Department of Microbiology, M. R. Government Arts College, Mannargudi-614 001,Tamilnadu, India Department of Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli620 024, Tamilnadu, India Department of Botany, Scott Christian College (Autonomous), Nagercoil -629 003, T...

Caren M. Walker, Ellen Winner, Lois Hetland, Seymour Simmons, Lynn Goldsmith University of California, Berkeley, USA; Boston College, Boston, USA; Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, USA; Massachusetts College of Arts and Design, Boston, USA; Winthrop University, Rock Hill, USA; Education Development Center, Newton, USA. Email: [email protected] Received August 25, 2010; re...

This paper provides an example of an innovative solution to program development that addresses the diverse needs of teacher educators throughout various geographical locations in Florida, through a collaborative multi-university, multi-agency teacher training program funded by one collaborative grant. In this time of economic uncertainties, institutions of higher education must become creative ...

In the following exchange, Lynn Caldwell (member of Engaged Scholar Journal Advisory Board, professor theological ethics at St. Andrew’s College and sessional lecturer in Educational Foundations, Women’s Gender Studies, University Saskatchewan), Carrianne Leung, Assistant Professor creative writing, Guelph writer fiction, discuss radical generosity context teaching Fine Arts. They remind us how...

Joseph VA1,2#, Georrge JJ3#, Pandya JH4 and Jadeja RN1* 1Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The MS University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India 2Department of Chemistry, Christ College, Rajkot, Gujarat, India 3Department of Bioinformatics, Christ College, Rajkot, Gujarat, India 4Department of Chemistry, Shree DKV Arts and Science College, Jamnagar, Gujarat, India #These authors are ...

Based on the new technology development direction of “high, difficult, beautiful, new” of the Taolu competition in Chinese martial arts, this paper analyses the current situation to the development of the competitive Wushu Routine at colleges in Jiangxi province by way of questionnaires, inquires and comparison. It discovers that the development level of the competitive Wushu Routine at college...

Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, University of South Florida, College of Medicine, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., MDC-9, Tampa, FL 33612 U.S.A. (AAB, JC) Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, College of Arts and Sciences, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., CHE 205A, Tampa, FL 33620 (MCS, JCA) Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, W...