OBJECTIVE To determine the status of gardens in California schools. DESIGN A self-administered Internet and mailed survey was sent to all California principals (N = 9805). PARTICIPANTS 4194 California school principals. VARIABLES MEASURED School garden practices, attitudes associated with the use of gardens in schools, and perceptions of barriers to having and using school gardens in acad...

OBJECTIVE To compare the prevalence of acute sinusitis (AS) and chronic sinusitis (CS) diagnosed by primary care and emergency medicine physicians in our academic institution to national data. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional pilot study of institutional census data and a population-based national sample. The setting was primary care and emergency departments at an academic healthcare institution...

OBJECTIVES To summarize and then assess with a pilot study the use of published best practice recommendations for priority setting during management of multiple healthcare research projects, in a resource-constrained environment. METHODS Medical, economic, business, and operations literature was reviewed to summarize and develop a survey to assess best practices for managing multiple projects...

Hedges, as tools to express tentativeness and doubt, have been studied in plenty of research papers in the Iranian EFL research setting. However, their use in a learner corpus, portraying Iranian learner English, is in need of more research attention. With this end in view, this study aimed at investigating how Iranian EFL learners who have majored in English-related fields in Iran deployed hed...

Historically, the IS community found little difficulty in producing rigorous research, but its relevance for the practitioner community is frequently questioned. While agreeing with the need for a sharper focus for IS research, this paper suggests that past problems with relevance can be avoided by engaging the academic and practitioner communities in setting a research agenda using an “open so...

OBJECTIVE To describe the rationale, origins, and goals of a newly created academic division of general psychiatry within a university setting. METHOD Literature review, observation, and description. RESULTS Within 2 years of its inception, the General Psychiatry Division of the University of Toronto has begun to realize some of its goals and further elucidate specific objectives. CONCLUS...

In this project, 119 undergraduates responded to a questionnaire tapping three psychological constructs implicated in Garrison's model of self-directed learning: self-management, self-monitoring, and motivation. Mediation analyses showed that these psychological constructs are interrelated and that motivation mediates the relationship between self-management and self-monitoring. Path modeling a...

political legitimacy is one of the fundamental notions in contemporary political theorizing. to explain this notion, a set of views, influenced by weber, put emphasis on the role of political beliefs of the citizens. yet, recent academic enterprises refer to the political agents, focusing on their actions. this article studies iranians’ socio-economic conditions in 1990’s, and reveals the setti...

The TF-NETCAST task force was active from March 2003 to March 2004, and during this time the members worked on various aspects of streaming media related to the ultimate goal of setting up common services and infrastructures to enable netcasting of high quality content to the academic community in Europe. We report on a survey of the use of streaming media in the academic community in Europe, a...

Academic general pediatric divisions can function as effective primary care providers in a managed care environment. Residents training in these programs are expected to be better equipped to enter a work environment that is increasingly structured in a managed care format. Positive and negative consequences of managed care in an academic setting are discussed. Recommendations for successful im...