Following the approach outlined above, 11 countries are at different stages of implementing the new system for monitoring and improving nutritional status of children. As the project progresses, it is being formally evaluated in the hope that this evaluation can guide institutionalization of the system. Work is also in progress to systematize data collection, collation, and analysis of food ava...

Focus groups enable the rapid and timely collation, integration and assembly of the views of a variety of different types of stakeholders into plausible theory. This paper examines the usefulness of the focus group as an e-business research method, using a case study of focus group deployment for the purpose of theory validation as its illustration. Our results suggest that a focus group can be...

Blackcurrant extracts contain a range of antioxidant compounds, including anthocyanins, other polyphenols and vitamin C, which are reported to have a range of health benefits. The NZ Blackcurrant Cooperative Ltd (NZBC) has undertaken a review of some of these benefits to make more readily available the published scientific information on the health benefits of blackcurrants. This review is a co...

We proposed a syntactic format, the panth format, for structured operational semantics in which besides ordinary transitions also predicates, negated predicates, and negat.ed transitions may occur such that if the rules are stratifiable strong bisimulation equivalence is a cOllgruence for all the operators that can be defined within the panik format.. To show that this format is useful we took ...

This paper has three main aims. The first is to ground the subject in current literature. Reference will then be made to two research studies conducted at Dubai Men's College where the use of e-portfolios was proposed and in one case implemented. The barriers identified around e-portfolios are described, along with an overview of current attitudes expressed at Unitec NZ during small-scale trial...

Analysis of medically attended injection site events data provides a vehicle to appreciate the inadequacies of vaccination practice for deltoid intramuscular injection and to develop best practice procedures. These data can be divided into 3 groups; nerve palsies, musculoskeletal injuries and cutaneous reactions and reflect inappropriate site of injection, needle over or under penetration, loca...

Collating, organizing and selecting quantitative experimental data are time-consuming tasks necessary for building and constraining biophysically realistic neuronal models. The CoCoDat (Collation of Cortical Data) database has been designed as an advanced environment for storing, organizing and retrieving detailed, uninterpreted quantitative data on morphology, electrophysiology and connectivit...

Ten (10) sets of siblings or parent-child pairs concordant for gender identity disorder (transsexualism) or gender identity disorder and transvestitism are reported. For concordant gender identity disorder, there is one set of male monozygotic twins; three sets of non-twin brothers; one brother-and-sister pair; one set of sisters; and one father and son. With gender identity disorder and transv...

There are two basic categories of reflection, according to where the learner reflects on. In self-reflection, the learner reflects on her/his own actions, while in comparative reflection the learner reflects on others’ actions. We propose an alternative reflection type, as a subcategory of the comparative reflection, the analogical reflection. In analogical reflection, students reflect on analo...

OriDB (http://www.oridb.org/) is a database containing collated genome-wide mapping studies of confirmed and predicted replication origin sites. The original database collated and curated Saccharomyces cerevisiae origin mapping studies. Here, we report that the OriDB database and web site have been revamped to improve user accessibility to curated data sets, to greatly increase the number of cu...