Background: This project aims to bridge the gap between clinical data being collected at a local hospital be used for research. Methods: 1.5T high-resolution anatomical MRI scans were from ten participants who already undergoing clinical, imaging, and neurological assessment as part of their standard-of-care. Additional statistical models examine relationship grey matter (using voxel-based morp...

Five case studies are presented of hospitals which have become involved in developing community-oriented programs for elderly persons. The reasons behind the new hospital interest in the elderly are complex, ranging from idealistic to self-interested reasons. Major actors involved in initiating interest in hospitals varies greatly from hospital to hospital. Advantages and disadvantages of hospi...

US public schools are failing and something must be done. So begins the tale of woe told by US school reformers, and if you should continue to listen, you will soon hear the familiar high points of this well-worn story. First, the purpose of US schools is, for the most part, to further critical national economic goals. Second, failures to achieve these goals are substantially caused by t h e n ...

BACKGROUND A number of studies have indicated that students lose idealistic motivations over the course of medical education, with some identifying the initiation of this decline as occurring as early as the second year of the traditional US curricula. This study builds on prior work testing the hypothesis that a decline in medical student idealism is detectable in the first two years of medica...

Kanji dictionaries, which need to present a large number of complex characters in an order that makes them accessible by users, traditionally use several indexing techniques that are particularly suited to the printed medium. Electronic dictionary technology provides the opportunity of both introducing new indexing techniques that are not feasible with printed dictionaries, and also allowing a ...