Crafting an Amish biomedical landscape

Singapore's biomedical sciences landscape.

Learning from an Amish birth.

Crafting, Crafting, Crafting - Extreme Programming in Classroom?

Extreme Programming (XP) shows several interesting approaches which are very attractive for education. It is centered around early and incremental creation of working software. In the following, the chances XP offers for class are shown – especially for use in a class project, but also for practical phases in all lessons where programming is useful. Finally several common problems which can occ...

Behavioral risk factors in an Amish community.

A representative sample of 400 Amish adults residing in Holmes County, Ohio, was interviewed about certain health risk characteristics and behaviors, using the Behavioral Risk Factor Survey (BRFS). For purposes of comparison, a representative sample of 773 non-Amish adults responded to the same survey by telephone interviews. In general, the Amish report lower rates of alcohol and tobacco consu...

The landscape for epigenetic/epigenomic biomedical resources.

Recent advances in molecular biology and computational power have seen the biomedical sector enter a new era, with corresponding development of Bioinformatics as a major discipline. Generation of enormous amounts of data has driven the need for more advanced storage solutions and shared access through a range of public repositories. The number of such biomedical resources is increasing constant...