Evaluation of students is an integral part of teaching and instruction. Evaluations take on added dimensions when students are enrolled in healthcare training programs, such as nurse anesthesia. Not only must students master a body of knowledge, but they also must be able to integrate, process, and apply this knowledge appropriately in a clinical setting on a human patient. Thus, societal and l...

INTRODUCTION schistosomiasis is kept under epidemiolotical surveillance in some areas of Brazil. OBJECTIVE to evaluate the epidemiological situation of schistosomiasis in the city of Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais, Brazil, through epidemiological indicators. METHODS a descriptive study was conducted by using the System of Information and Notification of Grievances (SINAN) that contains the ...

One normally thinks that we stick together with others like us, and that we exclude others whose difference provokes antipathy towards them. I will argue that antipathy is more rooted in sameness than in difference. Consciously, we exclude others who are different, but unconsciously, we hate sameness, and avoid it by creating delusional differences. Hatred drives the projection of these delusio...

BACKGROUND Utilizing a psychosocial stress approach, we report psychosocial stressors that Latina/o immigrant day laborers in Baltimore report as workplace hazards and the contextual factors that shape these stressors. METHODS Through a community-academic partnership, we conducted focus groups (n = 18) and key informant interviews (n = 9) using instruments developed between academics and the ...

Assigning tasks to employees is a difficult task. Errors committed in such assignments can have far-reaching consequences, such as reduced efficiency due to absenteeism, lack of job satisfaction, formal grievances, and generally deteriorating labor relations. This paper approaches the problem from a spatial point of view. First, the employees and the relevant tasks are mapped in a skill space. ...

This article examines the experiences of homeless workers within the day-laborer industry in Cleveland, Ohio and the multiple challenges they encounter in attempting to gain full-time employment. To provide a context for this study, we discuss the specific historical background of the day-labor industry in the city. We present the grievances day laborers raise within the categories of hours and...

Many cross-national surveys examine the extent to which citizens of new democracies believe that democracy is always preferable to any other form of government. There is little evidence, however, regarding how such attitudes affect citizen behavior. This article examines the case of Bolivia, asking whether and how Bolivians’ attitudes toward democracy affect participation, including contacts wi...

Into this long-running dispute as to whether psychiatrists should testify as experts in forensic matters, the AAPL Committee on Ethics warmly welcomes our esteemed colleague, Alan A. Stone. He has raised "serious questions about the basic legitimacy of forensic psychiatry.,,2 At the initial presentation of his paper (the lead article in this Bulletin), he touched a "sensitive nerve" as evidence...

Father Hesburgh opened his second day back on campus yesterday by ho ld ing a three hour meeting w ith student leaders in w h ich he attem pted to get some idea o f the issues that they are concerned w ith th is year. O ut o f the m eeting came the fact tha t he fe lt tha t he was on a “ year to yea r" basis w ith the Board o f Trustees and tha t he w ou ld step dow n as U n ivers ity President...