1 Maxine S. Cohen, Nova Southeastern University, School of Computer and Information Sciences, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, [email protected] 2 Timothy J. Ellis, Nova Southeastern University, School of Computer and Information Sciences, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314, [email protected] Abstract  There are numerous challenges inherent in teaching technology classes. These challenges are further exacerbated...

Author Richard Wurtman, MD Cecil H Green Distinguished Professor Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Disclosures: Consultant/Advisory Boards: Danone Medical Foods (Alzheimer's disease); Centre Int'l Research Servier (pain, personalized medicine). Patent Holder: Back Bay Scientific (medical uses of nutrients (inventor, patents held by MIT)). Section E...

This newsletter was jointly developed and subject to editorial review by Jefferson School of Population Health and Lilly USA, LLC, and is supported through funding by Lilly USA, LLC. The content and viewpoints expressed are those of the individual authors, and are not necessarily those of Lilly USA, LLC or the Jefferson School of Population Health. Last summer marked the 6-year anniversary of o...

Affi liations: From the Asthma and Allergy Research Group, Medical Research Institute, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee. Financial/nonfi nancial disclosures: The author has reported to CHEST the following confl icts of interest: Dr Lipworth has received unrestricted grants from Chiesi Ltd and Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries, Ltd; has acted as consultant to Cipla Limit...

This paper presents a qualitative analysis of an innovative project that brought together two school boards, principals, teachers, an Aboriginal Education and Research Centre, the respective Aboriginal communities and a team of researchers in the Province of Ontario in Canada. The data are the result of seven community forums held across the coterminous Catholic (separate) and public school dis...

Democratically elected school boards in the United States play a crucial role governance because they enable community voice educational practices and programs. Research on locally controlled finds can be undemocratic unproductive. However, little research has been conducted rural or small towns, where local control persists through formal informal means. This qualitative case study examines tw...

For too long, research on retrospective voting has fixated on how economic trends impact incumbents’ electoral prospects in national and state elections. Hundreds of thousands of elections in the United States occur at the local level and have little to do with unemployment or inflation rates. This paper focuses on the most prevalent: school boards. Specifically, it examines whether voters hold...

XIAOQUAN (MICHAEL) ZHANG is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management in the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He holds a PhD in Management from MIT Sloan School of Management, an MSc in Management, a BE in Computer Science and a BA in English from Tsinghua University. His research interests are ...