Golden Week - Documentary and awareness

ShapeShifting Documentary: A Golden Age

ShapeShifting TV denotes an approach to interactive television programmes that can adapt during delivery to the preferences of the active viewers. ShapeShifting TV is based on a declarative language called Narrative Structure Language (NSL) and is accompanied by a set of genre and production independent authoring and delivery tools. ShapeShifting TV was validated via a number of productions. A ...

Heart failure awareness week: February 14-21.

The statistics pertaining to heart failure are awesome. It now affects 4.6 million Americans, and 400,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. After a diagnosis is made, less than 50% of patients survive more than five years, and less than 25% survive more than 10 years. Class IV heart failure carries about a 50% mortality in one year. Deaths from heart failure rose 120% from 1979 to 1996, and ho...

Brain Awareness Week and Beyond: Encouraging the Next Generation

The field of neuroscience is generating increased public appetite for information about exciting brain research and discoveries. As stewards of the discipline, together with FUN and others, the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) embraces public outreach and education as essential to its mission of promoting understanding of the brain and nervous system. The Society looks to its members, particularl...

Ground Water Awareness Week — March 10–16, 2013

Announcement: Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week — February 7–14, 2017

Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week is observed each year during February 7-14 to promote awareness and education about congenital heart defects (CHDs). CHDs affect approximately one in 100 births every year in the United States and are the most common type of birth defect (1,2). Heart defects are conditions that persons live with throughout their lives; an estimated 1 million children and 1...