The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 provided valuable lessons for protecting health workers during an influenza pandemic or other public health crisis. In its final report, the SARS Commission concluded that a key lesson in worker safety was the precautionary principle. It stated that reasonable actions to reduce risk should not await scientific certainty. As recomm...

In this lesson, students will learn methods for spawning bivalve mollusks (e.g. clams or oysters) using thermal induction. Students will acquire skills in using an ocular micrometer to measure the diameter of bivalve eggs and the length of bivalve larvae. The following lesson plan will have students monitoring the density of larvae in their culture system and understanding production protocols ...

This study focuses on how higher education institutions, or HEIs, may respond to future strategic risks of an unprecedented magnitude. As the business world grapples with impact pandemic corporate strategies, so are HEIs. The management tends be viewed as ‘managing risk strategically’ and thus, they often overlooked despite being found far more consequential than other traditional risks. Theref...

Introduction Burnout, depression, and suicidality among residents of all specialties have become a critical focus of attention for the medical education community. Methods As part of the 2017 Resident Wellness Consensus Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada, resident participants from 31 programs collaborated in the Educator Toolkit workgroup. Over a seven-month period leading up to the summit, this wo...

Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) is essential to career development for teachers. Teachers can develop their own PCK by research-based activities such as action research and lesson study, with a particular emphasis on the employment of classroom practice, information technology, and collaborative learning. However, in recent studies, most of the models for enhancing teachers’ PCK focus on in...

background and purpose: in education, planning is necessary and inevitable. this study was conducted to identify knowledge and attitude of faculty members of kerman university of medical science about lesson planning. methods: in this cross- sectional study the sample was all of the faculty members of kerman medical university (320 persons). data collected by a researcher-made questionnaire whi...

(Appears as a regular paper in the proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), IEEE Computer Society, Washington D.C, Nov. 2002, pp. 199-208.) SAT-based planners have been characterized as disjunctive planners that maintain a compact representation of search space of action sequences. Several ideas from refinement planners (conjunctive planners) h...

When teaching mathematical problem-solving is mentioned, the name of Pólya György inevitably comes to mind. Many lessons are planned using Pólya's steps and helping questions, teachers often rely on his heuristics even if their application happens unconsciously. In this article, we would like examine how two phases, Making a plan Looking back, can be realized in secondary school mathematics les...