Insulin misperceptions are specific, widespread, incorrect beliefs about the purpose, utility, and limitations of insulin. This article, the first of a series, attempts to define and classify insulin misperceptions, while providing an overview of their sources. It lists the target audience in whom misperceptions must be addressed, and differentiates between insulin-naïve and insulin-experienced...

“How do you explain to an innocent citizen of the free world importance a credit default swap on double-A tranche subprime-backed collateralized debt obligation” (Lewis 222-3)? This question, asked by author Michael Lewis through eyes one his subjects – Ben Hockett appears have answer: with great difficulty. Lewis's book, The Big Short: Inside Doomsday Machine, lays out internal workings invest...

Abstract Purpose Many school-age children and adolescents who stutter experience the fear of public speaking. Treatment implications include need to address this problem. However, it is not always possible train repeatedly in front a real audience. The present study aimed assess relevance using virtual classroom clinical practice with stutter. Methods Ten (aged 9–17 years old) had speak three d...

Doctor Foster Kennedy is deeply sorry that he could not be here to address you on the subject of spinal cord paralyses following spinal anesthesia. This subject is very close to his mind and deep to his conscience. Only the most definite opinions of his physicians, who forbid him to make the journey, could persuade him against presenting such a serious problem to this fine audience, and especia...

This is an expository article the aim of which is to introduce interested students and researchers to the topic of tensor rank, in particular to the construction of explicit tensors of high rank. We try to keep the mathematical concepts and language used as simple as possible to address a broad audience. This article is thought to be an appetizer and does not provide by any means a complete cov...

My goal in this presentation is fairly modest. I want to share my experience of teaching a course from a global perspective and to raise some of its issues and challenges in classroom; and by doing so, I want to invite the audience to enter this dialogue. I will address the issues primarily in my discipline, history of Christianity; however, I believe that those specific issues are also relevan...

The audience for this toolkit is World Bank Task Managers and their counterparts in other organizations—those who, in response to requests, go to countries, assess the problems, design projects to address these problems, and implement or supervise these projects. Most World Bank staff are already overloaded with work and do not have the time to read material that is impractical or researchorien...

Current education literature is dominated by discussions of constructivism. This new name for a set of old ideas has major implications for how museums address learning. Constructivism is particularly appropriate as a basis for museum education if we consider the wide age range of museum visitors. How can we accommodate this diverse audience and facilitate their learning from our objects on the...