Objective: The relative stroke risk is increased in patients with diabetes. Awareness and knowledge of the risk factors and symptoms of stroke are essential for prevention and immediate effective treatment of stroke. The aim of the study was to determine baseline knowledge about the warning symptoms and risk factors of stroke in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Materials and Methods: This...

Those who have thought and written about management often refer to management "know-how." By this they apparently mean the ability of the manager to understand what is going on in his environment. It is the chief concern of the management scientist to translate these vague stipulations about management knowledge into precise and verifiable assertions about how decisions are made an~ how decisio...

Our nation’s infrastructure for generating, transmitting, and distributing electricity – “The Grid” – is a relic based in many respects on century-old technology. It consists of expensive, centralized generation via large plants, and a massive transmission and distribution system. It strives to deliver high-quality power to all subscribers simultaneously – no matter what their demand – and must...

As a nation built largely on knowledge – and facing unparalleled twenty-first century challenges – we require our citizens to constantly acquire new skills quickly, to engage in new learning approaches enthusiastically, and to form new learning communities that work well together. Yet most of our classrooms still look like nineteenth and early twentieth century schoolhouses: learning materials ...