This article presents and analyses a single pedagogic case of a small, rural primary state school in Queensland, Australia. The researchers spent one day per week for nineteen weeks serving the role of visiting teachers to the school. The goal of the research was to inquire into the pedagogical sustainability of this rural school and its relationship with community. Data was interpreted through...

The objective of this cross-sectional study was to assess the professional profile of dental-surgeons (DS) who work in the Family Health Strategy (FHS), and on the basis of this reflect upon aspects of the development of dental actions in primary health care in municipalities of a health region of the state of Piauí (Brazil) The study covered the nineteen municipalities of the region. The sampl...

Scholarly interest in Marxist philosophy has fluctuated dramatically in the past fifty years. Before that, there was little scholarly work in Britain on Marxist philosophy or on Marxism more generally. In the nineteen fifties there were important contributions by economic theorists and social historians but academic discussion of Marx's philosophy or even of his political theory was minimal and...

Based upon the expertise performed by ten basketball professional relative importance coefficients with regard to positions in the game were determined for nineteen performance evaluation criteria. High degree of interobservers agreement was obtained concerning all positions (from 0.91 to 0.98). In concordance with the obtained results the particular play positions were explicitly described, as...

Th e population frame for this study included 1,850 Cornell faculty members. In order to have as broad a representation as possible, we did not exclude: instructors and lecturers, faculty on leave, faculty based in graduate colleges, or faculty based outside of Ithaca. Before the initiation of the formal study, fi fty faculty members were randomly selected to take part in a pilot version of the...

elaboration of the significance of special symptoms and their bearing on the ultimate diagnosis of the cases discussed. He attains his object by means of case analysis. In the first volume pain and eleven other common symptoms were discussed in all their bearings and in the volume under consideration nineteen other symptoms have been selected for discussion and illustration by means of analysis...

1 Department of Neurology, Section of Developmental Neurobiology, University of Wuerzburg, Josef-Schneider-Str. 11, D-97080 Wuerzburg, Germany 2 Department of Neuroscience, King’s Health Partners Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, 125 Coldharbour Lane, SE5 9NU London, UK 3 Institute of Human Genetics, University of Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Stra...

Acetic acid-induced writhing, hot-plate, carrageenan-induced pleurisy, formalin-induced pain, croton oil-induced ear edema, vascular permeability tests and phospholipase A2 activity assay were used to study the analgesic and/or antiinflammatory activity of the hydromethanolic fraction of ethanolic extract from Spiranthera odoratissima A. St.-Hil., Rutaceae, leaves (HMF) and its subfraction (sub...

Background: A low ankle-brachial pressure index (an ABPI value <0.90) is considered predictive of cardiovascular disease, and is widely thought to increase morbidity and mortality in the elderly. However, good nutrition is beneficial both for the health and the ability to resist and recover from the disease. Objective: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between the an...

Although peripheral displays have been a domain of inquiry for over a decade now, evaluation criteria and techniques for this area are still being created. Peripheral display evaluation is an acknowledged challenge in a field setting.This article first describes models and methods that have been tailored specifically to evaluating peripheral displays (measuring how well they achieve their goals...