The author shares her personal journey of meeting, pushing through, and overcoming boundaries in many guises: as an outdoors wilderness enthusiast, engineer, a park administrator, and, now, photographer mixed-media artist. She asks: "I wonder if we can blur protected areas re-imagine parks PAs? Can PAs be vague enough to ignite creativity imagination? How might these re-imagined achieve protect...

In Australia since the 1970s there has been an invitation to parents to participate as partners with teachers in their children’s schooling. This invitation, explicitly expressed in the Karmel Report in 1973, has been repeated in many forms throughout the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, leading parents to believe that they are entitled to a say in how their children are schooled. Emanating from...

Background: Breaking bad news is an unpleasant task for physicians, especially for patients with cancer. In this regard, the SPIKES protocol, which is prevalent in several countries, has not been discussed in Iran. Objectives: This study evaluated how the SPIKES protocol was followed by physicians.  Materials & Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at Guilan academic ...

This study sought to prove whether there is an inclination in students’ ability before and after video-editing treatments.This was carried out under the umbrella of quasi-experimental as it involved one group pretes-posttest design. There were 13 students chosen through procedure total sampling. They given a pretest make 3 videos—3 minutes duration each—in topic Describing People, Inviting Acce...