Missing the boat

Missing the boat on freshwater fish conservation in California

Theodore E. Grantham, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California ([email protected]) Kurt A. Fesenmyer, Trout Unlimited, Boise, Idaho ([email protected]) Ryan Peek, Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, California ([email protected]) Eric Holmes, Center for Watershed Sciences, Univers...

The global health financing revolution: why maternal health is missing the boat

The first decade of the new millennium saw an upsurge in global financing for health. When the world took stock of progress on the Millennium Development Goals in mid-2010 the one addressing maternal health showed the least progress. Did maternal health miss the boat? In mid-2010 the Secretary-General of the United Nations launched a "Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health", also kno...

Missing the boat: odds for the patients who leave ED without being seen

BACKGROUND A patient left without being seen is a well-recognized indicator of Emergency Department overcrowding. The aim of this study was to define the characteristics of LWBS patients, their rates and associated factors from a tertiary care hospital of Pakistan. METHODS A retrospective patient record review was undertaken. All patients presenting to the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karach...

Non - Traditional Patterns of Global Regulation : Is the Wto ‘ Missing the Boat ’ ?

Arduino for Teaching Embedded Systems. Are Computer Scientists and Engineering Educators Missing the Boat?

In this work, we look at the Arduino as a design platform for a course on embedded systems and ask the question, is the Arduino platform suitable for teaching computer engineers and computer scientists an embedded system course with? To examine this question, we describe a project based learning embedded system course that we have taught and identify which topics are covered in it compared to t...