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PURPOSE To evaluate whether medical student participation in TimeSlips (TS), a creative group-based storytelling program, with persons affected by dementia would improve student attitudes toward this patient population. DESIGN AND METHODS Fifteen fourth-year medical students from Penn State College of Medicine participated in a month-long regimen of TS sessions at a retirement community. Stud...

An attitude reconstruction algorithm has been developed for a flexible sounding rocket whose spin vector nutates unstably about its minor inertia axis. This algorithm deduces attitude for use in post-flight analysis of the sounding rocket's science data. An additional motive for pursuing this work has been to show that a flexible-body dynamic model can be used in a Kalman filter/smoother-type a...

Introduction: The effective delivery of patient care is a complex venture, often requiring efficient collaboration among varied healthcare professions. Not surprisingly, research continues to indicate between these diverse professionals can be challenging. Early exposure health professions students interprofessional education (IPE) offers promising way improve this and, in turn, and service del...

Unemployment among the youth is a significant problem in South Africa. Large corporations and the public sector simply cannot create enough jobs. Too many youths in South Africa currently do not consider entrepreneurship as an option in order to become independent. Unlike the youth of the Netherlands, South African youth prefer to find employment in the public or private sector. The Netherlands...

Based on the survey data of 364 peasant households in Yibin, Sichuan, this paper analyzes the farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage loans. The result indicates a high willingness up to 74.2%, i.e. the farmers are willing to invest forest tenure mortgage loans into forestry and agricultural production. The influential factors on farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage...