Abstract Graduate schools provide students opportunities for fieldwork and training in archaeological methods theory, but they often overlook instruction field safety well-being. We suggest that more explicit guidance on how to conduct safe will improve the overall success of student-led projects prepare direct successful programs as professionals. In this article, we draw experiences current r...

OBJECTIVES To determine the smoking cessation/reduction services offered to pregnant women by federally funded Healthy Start projects designed to reduce infant mortality. DESIGN Information was obtained by questionnaires sent to all Healthy Start projects in 1999. Responses were received from 76 sites. SETTING The federal government selected the Healthy Start sites on the basis of infant mo...

Background: Software Effort Estimation (SEE) can be formulated as an online learning problem, where new projects are completed over time and may become available for training. In this scenario, a Cross-Company (CC) SEE approach called Dycom can drastically reduce the number of Within-Company (WC) projects needed for training, saving the high cost of collecting such training projects. However, D...

The authors describe a new approach towards assessing skills of medical trainees. Based on experiences from previous projects with (i) applying virtual environments for medical training and (ii) competence assessment and personalisation in technology enhanced learning environments, a system for personalised medical training with virtual environments is built. Thus, the practical training of mot...

In February 2001, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care announced a $9.6 million, 15-month pilot project (the Pilot) to implement and evaluate a comprehensive, multifactoral model of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) service delivery at 17 sites across Ontario. This is the second paper in a three-part, policy-related series which provides a summary of the Ontario CR Pilot model and the Pi...

By mechanical-biological treatment (MBT) of residual municipal solid waste the behaviour of landfills can be significantly improved. After MBT the organic content (COD and BOD5), total organic carbon, and total nitrogen in the leachate, as well as the gas production rate, are reduced to values lower than 90% of the fresh untreated waste. The volume of the stabilized material to be disposed on l...

BACKGROUND The majority of current health literacy tools assess functional skills including reading, writing, and numeracy. Although these tools have been able to underline the impact of such skills on individuals' health behaviour, there is a need for comprehensive measures to examine more advanced skills. The individual's ability to use health-related information considering his/her own healt...

BACKGROUND After incorporating quality improvement (QI) education as a required curriculum for our trainees in 2010, a need arose to readdress our didactic sessions as they were too long, difficult to schedule, and resulting in a drop in attendance. A 'flipped classroom' (FC) model to deliver QI education was touted to be an effective delivery method as it allows the trainees to view didactic m...

Individuals interested in software development are joining Open Source Software (OSS) projects to learn how to develop software. OSS projects provide an experiential learning opportunity as learning occurs through the actual building of code. Also, OSS project are often globally distributed including members from a variety of countries. This makes OSS an especially suitable setting to prepare s...