ECVAM initiated its workshop programme in 1994, to enable it to become well informed about the state of the art of non-animal test development and validation, and about the possible incorporation of alternatives into regulatory requirements for safety testing. Fifty-one such workshops have been held on specific topics, up to 2002. In these workshops, the current status of in vitro tests and the...

Since 2002, social workers and others in New York City have attended Undoing Racism Workshops (URW) designed to encourage participants to advance racial equity in the organizations in which they work. However, little is known about the extent to which participants pursued these goals following the workshop. Drawing on a participatory action model, this study explored the impact of URW by examin...

ANY SHELTERED WORKSHOPS do not provide actual work. Sheltered workshops often exist to provide a place for handicapped individuals to spend their day engaging in arts and crafts activities that are unsalable. Many sheltered workshops have greenhouses that grow and sell plants and herbs for little more than it costs to buy seed. Most workshops do business on a contract by contract basis where a ...

Family impact (or family burden) is a concept born in the field of mental health that has successfully been exported to the ambit of intellectual disability (ID). However, differences in family impact associated with severe mental health disorders (schizophrenia), to ID or to mental health problems in ID should be expected. Seventy-two adults with intellectual disability clients of the Carmen P...

Quality attribute workshops (QAW) provide a method for evaluating the architecture of a software-intensive system during the acquisition phase of major programs. The architecture is evaluated against a number of critical quality attributes, such as availability, performance, security, interoperability, and modifiability. The evaluation is based on test cases that capture questions and concerns ...

The design of microwave filters and multiplexers usually starts with the synthesis of an equivalent circuit for determining the optimal architecture of the device. One can observe that the requirements for filtering devices in the last-generation of communication systems have broadened the area of traditional filter synthesis. In the recent years, many studies have concerned the synthesis of ad...

An empirical study concerning management accounting information on corporate pricing decisions is presented. The study reveals insufficient information quality in organizations. The lack of information quality concerns the relevance of information available to the decision-making sales departments. In particular, too much irrelevant information is supplied by the controlling departments, as wel...

This paper contributes to knowledge on workshops as a research methodology, and specifically on how such workshops pertain to e-learning. A literature review illustrated that workshops are discussed according to three different perspectives: workshops as a means, workshops as practice, and workshops as a research methodology. Focusing primarily on the latter, this paper presents five studies on...

Magnetic resonance (MR) urography has an expanding role as a problem solving tool in treated cancer. Hydronephrosis is common with abdominopelvic neoplasms and whilst the majority are satisfactorily investigated by urography, ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT), invasive imaging or endourological techniques, some hydronephroses remain unexplained. These may occur in patients with renal im...

Cutaneous cancer is now the most common human malignancy and in the UK 11% of that total is due to malignant melanoma of which probably 80% is related to increased exposure to sunlight. Although it is the least common skin cancer malignant melanoma is the most deadly, and in 1999 it killed over 1600 individuals in the UK. In 2004, in the USA, 55 100 new cases were anticipated. The incidence of ...