Supervision of midwives is a statutory responsibility which provides a mechanism for support and guidance to every practising midwife in the United Kingdom. To be eligible for appointment as a supervisor, midwives are required to undertake a preparation programme successfully. Because of the changing nature of the professional role and education, the level of the programme of preparation has ev...

The advent of the Inter-Collegiate Membership in Orthodontics in the year 2000 will mark the end of an orthodontic diploma specific to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. The Diploma in Dental Orthopaedics (RCPS) was the first orthodontic diploma in the United Kingdom. The fact that such a diploma has existed first as a DDO and latterly as the MDO (Membership) for some 50 y...

very favourably some time ago. The present volume is intended for the public health student and will be found very useful by medical officers at home on leave, who are working for that most useful diploma, the D. P. H. The first 126 pages of this book is taken up with the chemical, microscopical and physical examination of water for public health purposes. Part II treats of the analysis of sewa...

1. Low-income preschoolers are least likely to have a mother who is married or who has a high school diploma. Nationally, 60 percent of low-income preschoolers had a mother with a high school diploma, compared to 86 percent of children in families with mid-range incomes, and 97 percent of children in families with upper-range incomes. In 1999, 57 percent of low-income preschoolers had married p...

Educational programs in Medical Informatics and Telemedicine offered at the Politecnico di Milano are described. At present they refers to the (5-years) Laurea Degree, the (3-years) Diploma Universitario Degree, the post-Laurea (3-years) Doctoral Degree, the (1-year) postLaurea Master’s Degree and a Continuing Education program. The general aim of the educational efforts is that to enable the s...

Post-harvest losses represent a significant threat to food security and farmer incomes worldwide. It is an inefficiency in the global food production system that is avoidable. In deducing principles of designing and implementing agricultural extension programs to reduce post-harvest losses, valuable lessons can be gleaned from the handful of previous extension projects and programs addressing p...

Sustained growth in high performance computing and the availability of advanced mobile devices increase the use of computation intensive applications. To ensure fast execution and consequently low power usage modern hardware provides multi-level caches, multiple cores, SIMD instructions or even dedicated vector accelerators. Taking advantage of those manually is difficult and often not possible...

We investigated the determination of N-methylcarbamate pesticides and their metabolites in agricultural products by HPLC with post-column fluorescence detection after clean-up with an SPE cartridge. The homogenate of agricultural products was extracted with acetone. The crude extract was partitioned between 5% sodium chloride solution and dichloromethane, and the dichloromethane layer was conce...