Sprinkles and Spacing

Long road to Sprinkles.

Micronutrient Sprinkles to Control Childhood Anemia

Ltd. is supporting the technical development of the sprinkles on a cost-recovery basis. Any profit from royalty fees on the technology transfer of sprinkles is currently donated to the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation, Toronto. terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is prope...

Micronutrient Sprinkles to Control Childhood Anaemia

0024 Recent World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nations Children’s Fund estimates suggest that the number of children with iron-defi ciency anaemia (IDA) is greater than 750 million [1]. Iron defi ciency is the most common preventable nutritional problem despite continued global goals for its control. Historically, the problem of IDA in children largely disappeared in North America when food...

Vegemite and chocolate sprinkles: Dutch medical students in rural Australia.

The Primary Health Care (PHC) working group of the Department of General Practice of Maastricht University in the Netherlands was founded in 1998 specifically to introduce students to patient care, research and education in primary health care settings outside the Netherlands. Rural health care in Australia is appealing to international medical students because of its unique setting. In the pas...

Control and Spacing 1 Metacognitive control and the spacing effect

This study investigates whether the use of a spacing strategy absolutely improves final performance, even when the learner had chosen, metacognitively, to mass. After making judgments of learning, adult and child participants chose to mass or space their study of word pairs. However, a third of their choices were dishonored. That is, they were forced to mass after having chosen to space and for...