this study was carried out to compare the effect between nutrition education intervention and non-nutrition education intervention on awareness regarding iron deficiency among schooling adolescents in tanah merah, one of rural district in kelantan, malaysia.this study which was started in year 2010 involved 280 respondents (223 girls, 57 boys, age: 16 yr) from schools in tanah merah. the select...

Web based education approach is used as a learning tool to demonstrate Metrology and quality control concepts and their industrial applications for technical students. An educational package has been built and used for regular students at technology college and for senior engineers attending training courses. The experience shows that this tool is very effective to accelerate the pace of learni...

SUMMARY This paper deals with the basic principles of the new FEM software package FEAST. Based on an initial discussion of available software tools with respect to their application area, i.e., Education, Research or (industrial) Application, it illustrates the speciic demands for such PDE software which is aimed to solve 'real life' problems. For the FEAST software, which is principally desig...

In this research-in-progress paper we conceptualize the teaching of IT-Management and IT-Consulting as a hybrid package of products (resources) and services (teaching). This understanding offers a new perspective on teaching approaches and creates new opportunities for all stakeholders. Following a wellestablished procedure model for product-service systems (PSS) engineering, we derive the cust...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate a pharmacist-initiated, total package, patient education program based on the concepts described in the PRECEDE model. This program was directed towards 94 therapeutically complex elderly patients and consisted of a medication history, therapeutic evaluation, patient education needs assessment, patient education session, and a patient feedback/satisfact...

INTRODUCTION The Guidelines for the implementation of Article 11 of the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) require that cigarette health warning labels should include pictures and take up 50% or more of the principal display area. This study examined how the association between large pictorial warnings, those covering ≥50% of the front and back of the...

R is free software for statistical computing, providing a variety of statistical and graphical functionality. For use in simulation education, R’s capabilities help to develop student intuition. In this paper, we introduce the simEd package for R, written with a pedagogical focus. The package includes functions for generating discrete and continuous variates via inversion, with capabilities for...

As part of the capacity-building activities of the United Nations University – ITC School on Disaster GeoInformation Management (UNU-ITC DGIM) the International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) has developed a training package on the application of GIS for multi-hazard risk assessment. The package, called RiskCity comprises a complete suite of exercise descripti...