Nature, dwelling. A needed new balance

Nature, urban development and sustainability – What new elements are needed for a more comprehensive understanding?

With the rise of interest in urban sustainability, the question of nature is front and center. This review suggests bridging between three distinct research paths concerned with urban areas and nature: urban ecosystem services, urban metabolism and urban political ecology to forge new thinking to transition from the sanitary city of the twentieth century to the sustainable city of the twenty-fi...

Balance performance of community-dwelling older people.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of 4 common clinical balance tests and history of fall in Saudi community-dwelling older people. METHODS This retrospective study took place in the Rehabilitation Health Sciences Department, College of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University. Older people were recruited from Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from September 2009 to June 2010. Four ...

New instructional strategies needed.

The word Lecture according to Webster's Dictionary is " an insructional discourse given by a member of the college or university faculty ". Another meaning it has is " the act of reading ". This is exactly what some members of teaching staff do. Read out their notes. These notes are then faithfully transferred to the notebooks of the students. According to one wit during this process of transfe...

A new attitude needed in public education.

VVhere the parents were relying upon the child's symptoms to support their own difficulties, the improvement can be disruptive. Hence the physician must have some understanding of the fam-ily's interactions to adequately predict the outcome of drug administration, and the family must be alerted to the probable changes. Considering all of the above, giving a tranquilizer becomes a rather broad a...

Why a New Index Is Needed