Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are responsible for maintaining a sufficient pool of self-renewing cells that can continuously differentiate into lineage-specific hematopoietic cells throughout the lifetime of an individual (1). The choice to self-renew or differentiate is most likely achieved through coordination of extrinsic and intrinsic cell fate signals that drive symmetrical or asymmetric...

This is the second book in 'Health, Functioning and Technology' series. The focus of this on teaching, learning assessment rehabilitation education within African context. primary contributors to are authors from occupational therapy, physiotherapy speech-language therapy South Africa. discuss local contextual drivers for renewing professions curricula that support graduates becoming competent,...

Urbanization is one of the great challenges of our time and unchecked haphazard urbanization is a serious threat both to the environment and social and economic balance. In order to meet global sustainability targets, rapid urban growth must be channelled into environmentally friendly, sustainable and liveable urban environments. Thus, this special issue focuses on sustainable urban design whic...

In renewal processes, fuzziness and randomness often coexist intrinsically. Based on the random fuzzy theory, a delayed renewal process with random fuzzy interarrival times is proposed in this paper. Relations between the renewal number and interarrival times in such a process are investigated, and useful theorems such as the elementary renewal theorem, Blackwell renewal theorem and Smith key r...

There is increasing attention to the importance of Enterprise Systems (ES) and Information Systems (IS) for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The same attention must be addressed in IS graduate curriculum. Studies reveal that despite healthy demand from the industry for IS management expertise, most IS graduates are ill-equipped to meet the challenges of modern organizations. The majority of...

During a time of budget challenges, the Washington, D.C. government has needed to increase appropriations to the public safety and justice title while reducing appropriations to other municipal services. The need to increase policing costs by $1 million to $469.7 million in fiscal year 2012 diverges from the city’s efforts to improve underserved neighborhoods through urban renewal. Although the...

2. Government has undertaken its own urban renewal projects for many years. The Hong Kong Housing Society (HS) started its Urban Improvement Scheme in 1974. In 1988, the Land Development Corporation (LDC) was established to speed up the process of urban renewal. The Housing Authority (HA) has also played an important role in urban renewal, in particular by redevelopment of its own estates and a...

Despite the rapid expansion of interest in competency-based assessment, few descriptions of assessment systems specifically designed for a competency-based curriculum have been reported. The purpose of this article is to describe the design of a portfolio approach to a comprehensive, competency-based assessment system that is fully integrated with the curriculum to foster an educational environ...