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Upgrading The Capacity And Skills Of Service Providers Of The West Bank/Gaza Pilot Health Project, Nancy Ali, Laila Nawar, Dale Huntington, Tawhida Khalil

Reproductive Health

The Center for Development in Primary Health Care (CDPHC), in collaboration with the Population Council’s FRONTIERS program, developed a 19-month training program to strengthen and improve existing maternal and children’s health and family planning services and to promote the establishment of the standardized basic package of services at Pilot Health Project (PHP) clinic sites in the West Bank and Gaza. There were four key start-up activities, including: 1) an assessment of standards of care provided at PHP clinics; 2) a review of formative research; 3) the development of clinical training manuals and curricula; and 4) the development of behavior change …

Using Operations Research To Strengthen Programmes For Encouraging Abandonment Of Female Genital Cutting. Report Of A Consultative Meeting On Methodological Issues For Fgc Research, Frontiers In Reproductive Health

Reproductive Health

The Population Council’s Frontiers in Reproductive Health program, with funding from USAID, organized a consultative meeting on the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) in Nairobi, Kenya in April 2002. The meeting brought together a small group of researchers and program managers who are actively undertaking operations research and systematic program evaluations to review the state of the art concerning intervention research design and measurement issues. The deliberations at this workshop should stimulate interest both in undertaking operations research more routinely when programming anti-FGC activities and in furthering the development and application of research methods appropriate for this subject. Several …

Informed Consent: From Good Intentions To Sound Practices—A Report Of A Seminar, Susan Y. Wood, Barbara Friedland, C. Elizabeth Mcgrory

Reproductive Health

This report is a summary of presentations and discussions at a seminar entitled “Informed Consent: From Good Intentions to Sound Practices.” This two-day seminar brought together 65 individuals from nine countries in May 2001 to discuss challenges of informed consent in research. The goal of the meeting was to put informed consent into historical and contemporary perspective and to explore ways that the barriers to effective implementation can be overcome. The underlying premise of the seminar was that, as the issues around doing ethical research in health will only grow in scope and complexity, even when those who sponsor and …

Edison Community College 2002 Holocaust Memorial Event Schedule Flyer, Edison Community College

Program Schedules

Edison Community College Holocaust Memorial Event Schedule Flyer. April 1-4, 2002.

Communicating About Aids-Changes In Understanding And Coping With Help Of Language In Urban Kagera, Tanzania, Aldin Mutembei, Maria Emmelin, Joe Lugalla, Lars Dahlgren

Institute for Educational Development, East Africa

Faced with the problems of HIV/AIDS, people have to find ways to communicate around them. The aim of this paper is to mirror changes over time in the Kagera people's social cognition regarding HIV/AIDS, using their own language as a tracer of this process. Focus group discussions and personal and group interviews conducted during 1992 to 1995 in urban Bukoba, Kagera, constitute the basis for an analysis of metaphorical expressions in use since 1985. Pronounced uncertainty is later transformed into a deeper understanding of the pandemic and an increased disposition to cope with the situation. Knowledge about the socio-linguistic expressions …

Constructing A Common Ukrainian Identity: An Empirical Study, Igor Khrestin '02

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

In National Identity, a seminal study concerning nations and national identity, Anthony Smith defines national identity as "a named human population sharing common myths and symbols, historical memories, a mass, public culture, a common economy and common legal rights and duties for all members (Smith 1991, p.14)." According to Smith, these components are absolutely necessary for a nation to function. However, does this definition apply to the experience of all nations? Are there particular historical, geopolitical, or social factors that have shaped the development of a common national identity?

Tractor Accessorized Zerriest Series Ii, U.S. Humanitarian Demining Research And Development

Global CWD Repository

The TAZ II is a large tracked Caterpillar Graphic 1 – TAZ II Corporation vehicle (325B L Excavator) with a specialized vegetation cutting attachment developed by Timberline Environmental Services. See graphic 1. Timberline Environmental Services has been involved in vegetation clearance for nearly 23 years, supporting both civilian and military organizations. Military support missions have dealt primarily with unexploded ordnance (UXO). By utilizing the Caterpillar base carrier, the TAZ II System has the worldwide product support of the Caterpillar Corporation. The system is capable of masticating all vegetation ranging from light grasses to large trees, as well as excavating the …

Itf Enhancing Human Security Annual Report 2002, Itf-Enhancy Human Security

Global CWD Repository

When first established by the Slovenian government in March 1998, ITF was to assist Bosnia and Herzegovina in solving its landmine problem, and help surviving landmine victims with physical-social rehabilitation and reintegration. However, as BiH was not the only country in the region affected by landmines (see Mine and UXO threat in SE Europe), it was only fair to spread its operations to all other mine-affected countries in SE Europe as well. Presently, ITF is working in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Serbia and Montenegro.

ITF seeks to attract public and private donors for Mine Action related activities …

Reflections [Complete Issue : Second Quarter 2002], Sigma Theta Tau International, Jessica Mcdaniel, Trista Drew, Samantha Gueldenzopf, May Z. Yang, Kim Davids, Susan D. Moch, Jane H. Barnsteiner, Suzanne S. Prevost, Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Ellen Fineout-Overholt, Marita G. Titler, Laura Cullen, Gail Ardery, Yasmin Amarsi, Lynn Basford, Barbara La Valleur

Sigma Past Publishing - Reflections Magazine

Publishing History: Print issues of Reflections magazine were published from 1975 to 1999 and its successor, Reflections on Nursing Leadership (RNL) began publication in 2000. RNL migrated to an online format, http://www.reflectionsonnursingleadership.org, in 2006 and continues today.

RNL is a member benefit of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). The historical print issues have been made openly available.

Publishing Frequency: Quarterly until its transition to online. It’s now updated virtually every day.

Format: Print, 1975 - 2005; Online, 2006 - present

Feature Articles in this Issue:

Undergird your EBP Curriculum with Undergrad Research Assistants

Beauty …

Reflections [Complete Issue : Third Quarter 2002], Sigma Theta Tau International, Janice Post-White, Eleanor Sullivan, Barbara Goll-Mcgee, Sharon Divitto, Karlene M. Kerfoot, Roy Simpson, Rosemary Bryant, Georgia L. Narsavage, Rachel Difazio, Galina Perfiljeva, Barbara La Valleur

Sigma Past Publishing - Reflections Magazine

Publishing History: Print issues of Reflections magazine were published from 1975 to 1999 and its successor, Reflections on Nursing Leadership (RNL) began publication in 2000. RNL migrated to an online format, http://www.reflectionsonnursingleadership.org, in 2006 and continues today.

RNL is a member benefit of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). The historical print issues have been made openly available.

Publishing Frequency: Quarterly until its transition to online. It’s now updated virtually every day.

Format: Print, 1975 - 2005; Online, 2006 - present

Feature Articles in this Issue:

Sustaining Hope in Individuals and Nations

In a Woman's …

Quality Of Referral Letters To Abha Psychiatric Hospital, Asir Region, Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia, Hasan S. Al-Amri, Khalid S. Al-Gelban

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to explore the quality of referral letters from different health institutions to Abha Psychiatric Hospital, the only psychiatric center in Asir region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. METHODS: In this descriptive study, a total of 582 consecutive referral letters to Abha Psychiatric Hospital, during the first half of 1998, were evaluated for the components that are supposed to be found in the consentient referral letter to a psychiatric service. Each letter quality was indicated as good or poor according to the used scale. RESULTS: Thirty-six percent of the referral letters were poor. The clinical information relating to …

Compliance With Appointment And Medications In A Pediatric Neurology Clinic At A University Hospital In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Eiad A. Al-Faris, Hamza M. Abdulghani, Awad H. Mahdi, Mustafa A. Salih, Ahmad G. Al-Kordi

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: The objectives of the study are to estimate the rate of epileptic patients’ compliance with appointments and medications in a pediatric neurology clinic. Also to study the factors associated with non-compliance and to determine the parents’ perceived reasons for non-compliance with appointments. METHODS: It is a prospective study in which 147 epileptic children who attended the neurology clinic during the first 12-months of the study period were included. Patients were recruited into the study after their parents were interviewed using a detailed questionnaire; their compliance with appointments was monitored prospectively over at least a one year from their recruitment …

Online Payment System / Chuah Wee Heong, Wee Heong Chuah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Online Payment System is a web based online transaction system for E-commerce. Online Payment System is designed to be easy to use, yet provide all the functionality and secrecy needed to efficiently conduct an online transaction. It enables customer to conduct the transaction efficiently and safely by encrypting all processes in the website. A shopping cart function will provide users more convenient, where they can check the item in their shopping cart and finalized the item before they checked out and make payment. The system will also provide a link to customer account where they can check their account in …

System For Analyzing Medical Data / Saravanabavan Ramasamy, Ramasamy Saravanabavan

Student Works (2000-2009)

This project can be defined as a stand-alone system, which attempts to integrate with Healthcare Information System to communicate the outside and inside flow of information in hospitals and provide the functions common for all applications. This web-based Medical Data Analysis System allows all range of users, using Internet Explorer web browser to view the graphical output from the patient's data and gaining mild information about the top ten diseases ranked in Malaysia or specifically University Malaya Medical Center. On the other hand, it allows the authorized user to update the latest patent medical data and diseases name as time …

Rekabentuk Antaramuka Pengguna Bagi Jadual Waktu I / Norfaqurah Zulkafli, Zulkafli Norfaqurah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Rekabentuk Antaramuka Pengguna bagi Jadual Waktu I ini adalah satu kaedah merekabentuk paparan penjadualan di atas talian di mana kesemua pengguna sistem dapat mencapai dan membuat semakan dari mana-mana kawasan dengan hanya mengakses Internet di lokasi mereka berada. Rekabentuk antaramuka ini dijangka dapat membantu pelajar, pensyarah, pihak pentadbiran dan kakitangan Fakulti Sains Komputer dan Teknologi Maklumat menyemak jadual waktu untuk mengetahui aktiviti mingguan fakulti, jadual waktu kuliah atau membuat tempahan bilik tanpa perlu melalui prosedur secara manual yang digunakan pada masa sekarang di Fakulti Sains Komputer dan Teknologi Maklumat, Universiti Malaya. Ia memberi garis panduan kepada pelajar semasa membuat penyusunan …

Library Online Request For Purchasing Reading Material System / Too Ser Ing, Ser Ing Too

Student Works (2000-2009)

Library Online Request for Purchasing Reading Material System (LORS) is a web-based application where lecturers from University of Malaya (UM) can make their requisition for purchasing reading material to tile main library via the Internet. For the past few years, the requisition for purchasing reading materials has been done manually. Due to the inconvenience and time-consuming problems, it is worthy for us to develop a library online request service. The development of LORS is anticipated to include the use of Information Technology. LORS is mainly divided into 2 sections, which are user section and administrator section. User section is a …

Longwood University Catalog 2002-2003, Longwood University

Undergraduate Catalogs

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Mobile Home Security With Gprs, Duy Nguyen

Theses : Honours

This thesis presents the results of an honours project on the development of a security system for use on mobile devices. Mobile Home Security (MHS) is a prototype system that aimed to fully investigate a potential use of the wireless high-speed technology General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) in transmitting video from a static location. This thesis Mobile Home Security with GPRS describes in detail the design and developmental stages for the system. The research focused on the sending of video from a security capture device over a high speed radio network. The first stage of the research involved the design …

What Makes It Into The News: A Close Look At How News Sources At 6pr And 720 Abc Radio Influence News Selection, Angela Businoska

Theses : Honours

One of the roles of journalists today is to select the newsworthy stories from the endless amount of information which flows into their media organisation's newsroom. So, what is news and how do journalists decide what makes it and what docs not, in the news each day? Past and present research on this topic has thus far attempted to provide a formula, or consistent approach to the news selection process. To date, these newsroom studies have often been based at an international level, with results primarily originating from interviews with journalists themselves. This suggests that there are still many aspects …

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Basic Communication Course Annual

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Basic Communication Course Annual

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Revising Public Speaking Theory, Content, And Pedagogy: A Review Of The Issues In The Discipline In The 1990'S, Nancy Rost Goulden

Basic Communication Course Annual

Literature from the 1990's calling for revision of basic course public speaking theory and pedagogy is examined, summarized, and organized. Discussion of sources that shape and maintain public speaking theory provides background for the reports of journal articles and conference papers categorized under (1) overall perspectives that influence theory, (2) basic theory of what characteristics constitute effective speaking, (3) appropriate course content, and (4) appropriate pedagogy.

The dominant theme for change calls for a new theoretical perspective of effective speaking rejecting emphasis on traditional speech behaviors and supported by changes in attitudes and pedagogy, characterized by flexibility, openness, reliance on …

Common Sense In The Basic Public Speaking Course, Calvin L. Troup

Basic Communication Course Annual

The foundation of the basic public speaking course ought to be questioned and modified to better meet the needs of students today. More specifically, public speaking courses must offer more than technique. Students must be introduced to the historical context that both models effective public discourse and has also contributed to the framework of the American public forum. This article offers some common sense ideas about what the public forum ought to be. Implementation of these ideas, among other things, will serve to enrich the substance of the course, introduce the central role of rhetoric in American history, culture, and …

Extending Learning Opportunities In The Basic Communication Course: Exploring The Pedagogical Benefits Of Speech Laboratories, Stephen K. Hunt, Cheri J. Simonds

Basic Communication Course Annual

This study asked 527 students enrolled in a basic communication course to evaluate the efficacy of a speech lab in relation to speech requirements stipulated by their instructors. In addition, the researchers examined the scores of 435 student speeches to determine if students who visited the lab earned higher grades compared to students that did not visit the lab. Results showed that (a) most instructors require their students to visit the lab before at least one speech, (b) the vast majority of students perceive the help they receive in the lab to be very useful, and (c) students who visit …

Communication Apprehension And Basic Course Success: The Lab-Supported Public Speaking Course Intervention, Karen Kangas Dwyer, Robert E. Carlson, Sally A. Kahre

Basic Communication Course Annual

This study examined a lab-supported public speaking course as an intervention for helping reduce overall and context communication apprehension (CA) for high and moderate CA students. In addition, this study queried whether actual lab usage was related to CA reduction and to course grade for those students. Results showed that the lab-supported public speaking course helped high and moderate CAs significantly reduce overall CA and CA in public speaking, group discussions, meetings and interpersonal conversation contexts.

There was no difference in reduction of CA level between high and moderate CAs who utilized the speech lab and those who did not. …

An Examination Of The Speech Evaluation Process: Does The Evaluation Instrument And/Or Evaluator's Experience Matter?, Karen Anderson, Karla Kay Jensen

Basic Communication Course Annual

Speech evaluation forms are a useful and necessary tool of any communication course with a public speaking component. The continued investigation of how such forms are created and used is beneficial to students and teachers. In this study, raters from various experience levels graded two speeches using a combination of four evaluation forms, half of which included directions. Raters then responded to questions regarding the forms they just used.

Results indicate that experience level and form type influence the speech grade given. Additionally, raters' responses regarding the forms reveal how they view the use of forms in the speech evaluation …

Listening Treatment In The Basic Communication Course Text, Laura A. Janusik, Andrew D. Wolvin

Basic Communication Course Annual

Numerous studies have indicated that listening is instrumental for academic and professional success, and most students receive listening instruction only in the basic communication course. This study analyzed the treatment of listening in the 17 most widely used basic communication course textbooks. The majority of the textbooks did devote at least one chapter to listening; however, the treatment was generally light, atheoretical, and lacked substantive listening scholarship.