Did You Get Back to Where You Once Belonged?

"Get back to where you once belonged": monitoring the AIDS pandemic in the 21st century.

This paper reviews the concepts and methodological strategies that have shaped the monitoring of the AIDS pandemic, today in its third decade. A deliberate effort was made to highlight aspects usually forgotten by the canon. The paper aims to track the footsteps of the evolving strategies in the field of surveillance & monitoring, with the help of disciplines such as epidemiology, molecular bio...

Where did you get that hat?

C Dm Where did you get that hat? Where did you get that tile? Isn't it a nobby one, and just the proper style? C I should like to have one just the same as that!" C Where'er I go, they s C 1. Now how I came to get this hat, 'tis very strange and funny Grandfather died and left to me his property and money F C F And when the will it was read out, they told me straight and flat C If I would have ...

What did it cost to get you here?

Commuting by public transit and physical activity: where you live, where you work, and how you get there.

BACKGROUND Most public transit users walk to and from transit. We analyzed the relationship between transit commuting and objectively measured physical activity. METHODS Adults aged 20 to 65 working outside the home (n = 1237) were randomly selected from neighborhoods in Seattle and Baltimore regions. Neighborhoods had high or low median income and high or low mean walkability. Mean daily min...

The effects of grades on course enjoyment: did you get the grade you wanted?

BACKGROUND Students tend to rate university courses more positively if they do well. Greenwald and Gillmore (1997a) suggested that it is not students' absolute grades that are important but rather how these grades compare to their expectations. However, this hypothesis is difficult to evaluate because few studies have measured grade expectations at the beginning of courses. AIM By measuring s...