Enterovirus 71 (EV71) infection remains a public health problem at a global level, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. The infection normally manifests as hand-foot-mouth disease; however, it is capable of developing into potentially fatal neurological complications. There is currently no approved vaccine or antiviral substance available for the prevention or treatment of EV71 infection. T...

An online survey of institutional repository (IR) managers identified copyright clearance trends in staffing and workflows. The majority of respondents followed a mediated deposit model, and reported that library personnel, instead of authors, engaged in copyright clearance activities for IRs. The most common “information gaps” pertained to the breadth of information in copyright directories li...

Responses from UHCC Strategic Planning Council Spring 2009 Responses ascending value within characteristics The Community College Inventory provides descriptions of eleven characteristics that are strongly focused on student success -that is student persistence, learning and attainment. Related to each characteristic is a set of indicators that more fully describe observable institutional pract...

OBJECTIVES To describe expectations of, and perceived motivators and barriers to, in-hospital exercise of hospitalized older adults. DESIGN Qualitative study using the framework theory. SETTING Public hospital general medical wards. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-eight English- or Spanish-speaking inpatients aged 65 to 103. MEASUREMENTS Semistructured interviews were conducted at the bedside. Ques...

Enterovirus 71 (EV71) is a growing public health concern, especially in Asia. A surge of EV71 cases in 2008 prompted authorities in China to go on national alert. While there is currently no treatment for EV71 infections, vaccines are under development. We developed a computer simulation model to determine the potential economic value of an EV71 vaccine for children (<5 years old) in China. Our...

OBJECTIVES To describe and examine the factors that most facilitate and impede the provision of healthy foods in a complex institutional food system. STUDY DESIGN Comparative case study of three institutional food settings in New York City. METHODS Document review and interviews with relevant city government staff. RESULTS Factors that facilitate and impede the provision of healthy food v...

purpose: to provide a model for measuring the services quality from the views of student as the main customer in e-learning institutions with regard to the special features of this university and e-learning approach. methods: in this study, after reviewing the literature on service quality in different areas, 42 main factors affecting the quality of e-universities service has been extracted and...

this paper describes one university’s approach to improving the quality of teaching and learning at the institutional level, based on the premise of improving the design of curriculum rather than focusing on the skills of teachers as such. the paper describes the process by which university-wide principles of curriculum design were defined and agreed, as well as the parallel campaigns needed to...