Working together to promote academic safe-guarding

Working together to block alloimmunization.

The discovery of ABO(H) blood group antigens resulted in the birth of transfusion medicine and allowed for the first time the use of a laboratory test that could predict immunologic outcomes prior to transfusion. Although ABO(H) antibody testing continues to represent one of the first and most common examples of personalized medicine, it was not until many years later that the existence of non-...

Working together to move ahead.

Working Together.

Public-academic partnerships: working together to meet the needs of Army National Guard soldiers: an academic-military partnership.

The conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have greatly increased the number of veterans returning home with combat exposure, reintegration issues, and psychiatric symptoms. National Guard soldiers face additional challenges. Unlike active duty soldiers, they do not return to military installations with access to military health services or peers. The authors describe the formation and activities of...

Using behavioral skills training to promote safe and correct staff guarding and ambulation distance of students with multiple physical disabilities.

The study analyzed the effects of self-recording and behavioral skills training on guarding responses of 3 staff members while they assisted 3 students with multiple disabilities to ambulate. The intervention increased the percentage of correct posture and guarding responses and the distance that students ambulated. These effects generalized when staff taught new students.