The developmental period of a child has critical importance for learning and it is even more so in case of a disabled child. The earlier the disability is detected, the easier it is to effectively help the child both medically and educationally. The present paper is an attempt to define and describe developmental disability both as a concept and as a practical program of intervention. The main ...

This paper describes the experiences of a team of undergraduate research students that were assigned the task of designing a product family for a reconfigurable manufacturing system, RMS. This problem of designing a product family for a RMS required a different type of thinking than that required for traditional product design. Not only did consideration have to be given to the product design s...

This paper presents an approach to combine efforts in Economics and Software Engineering, in order to treat software development from the economics perspective. We define the term transdisciplinary, in the context of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, and use it to derive mutual relationships between Economics and Software Engineering. Finally, we propose a research agenda for co...

With the growth of interprofessional education (IPE) and practice in health professional schools, faculty members are being asked to assume new roles in leading or delivering interprofessional curriculum. Many existing faculty members feel ill-prepared to face the challenges of this curricular innovation. From 2012-2013, University of Missouri - Columbia and University of Washington partnered w...

On September 7, 2013, the NCI R25T award mechanism ended its final "receipt/review/award cycle" after more than two decades shaping the cancer prevention and control workforce. Created in 1991 to respond to a national shortage of cancer prevention and control researchers, the R25T supported innovative institutional programs with specialized curricula preparing individuals for careers as indepen...

To examine how well biology majors have achieved the necessary foundation in evolution, numerous studies have examined how students learn natural selection. However, no studies to date have examined how students learn developmental aspects of evolution (evo-devo). Although evo-devo plays an increasing role in undergraduate biology curricula, we find that instruction often addresses development ...

Purpose: The managers' professional development is one of the effective factors in improving the position of organizations in comparison with other organizations. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of providing a model of educational managers' professional development in the banking industry. Methodology: This research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implem...

Developmental biology is deeply embedded in the social issues of our times. Such topics as cloning, stems cells, reproductive technologies, sex selection, environmental hormone mimics and gene therapy all converge on developmental biology. It is therefore critical that developmental biologists learn about the possible social consequences of their work and of the possible molding of their discip...

OBJECTIVES To develop best practice guidance for the use of retention strategies in randomized clinical trials (RCTs). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Consensus development workshops conducted at two UK Clinical Trials Units. Sixty-six statisticians, clinicians, RCT coordinators, research scientists, research assistants, and data managers associated with RCTs participated. The consensus development ...

Entrepreneurship and Economic Organization Because entrepreneurs in many ways personify market forces, one might expect them to be the central figures in economics. Similarly, because most entrepreneurial ventures somehow involve a firm, entrepreneurship would seem to be a core element of the economics of organization (represented, for example, by Milgrom and Roberts). However, entrepreneurship...