Rapid Response Educational Efforts: Keeping Cooperative Extension Ahead of the Curve

Ahead of the curve.

Keeping Ahead of Our Adversaries

EVERY SOFTWARE SYSTEM is potentially vulnerable in ways that aren’t always imagined during development. For example, pacemakers and implantable cardioverterde brillators (ICDs), which monitor and regulate cardiac rhythms, typically provide wireless access to healthcare providers so that they can modify settings and collect telemetry. However, a malicious user could transmit commands to ICDs to ...

Too far ahead of the IT curve?

Peachtree Healthcare has major IT infrastructure problems, and CEO Max Berndt is struggling to find the right fix. He can go with a single set of systems and applications that will provide consistency across Peachtree's facilities but may not give doctors enough flexibility. Or he can choose service-oriented architecture (SOA), a modular design that will allow Peachtree to standardize increment...

Emerging infections: getting ahead of the curve.

The early history of infectious diseases was characterized by sudden, unpredictable outbreaks, frequently of epidemic proportion. Scientific advances in the late 19th and early 20th centuries resulted in the prevention and control of many infectious diseases, particularly in industrialized nations. Despite these improvements in health, outbreaks of infectious disease continue to occur, and new ...

the effects of integrating cooperative learning into vocabulary learning of elementary school students

the purpose of the research is to examine if integrating cooperative learning into vocabulary learning helps to increase word recognition of students in an elementary school in iran. it tries to investigate whether cooperative learning approach enables students to improve their language learning. this research used stad (students team achievement division) as a cooperative model in this study. ...