Dr Guarneri: We chose the name because an Academy is the large umbrella for the work we'll do. So, it is more than a name change—it is broadening our purpose and mission. Let me explain. The AIHM will bring together the global integra-tive holistic care community of providers—from advanced practice nurses to MDs to DOs to DCs to NDs to traditional Eastern medicine practitioners. A clini-cian wh...

To implant sustainable development goals, land-use planners need holistic indicators. An accessibility index appears particularly important but its evaluation focuses still highly on the economic dimension. Geographical Information Systems and Multicriteria Analysis allow us to promote a holistic definition of accessibility. GIS is used to describe the territory in terms of the transport networ...

Across Canada, remote and rural First Nations (Indigenous communities) are responsible for delivering services to community members. They use broadband networks for many kinds of service delivery including health, training and education, government and administration, language and culture, lands and resources, justice and policing and others (O’Donnell, Milliken, Chong, Walmark, 2010). Since th...

Bariatric patients often encounter challenging physical environments and sometimes encounter negative attitudes from health professionals when seeking care. Most facilities have the basic equipment needed to care for these patients. Using ceiling lifts or limb slings to facilitate repositioning or transfer has benefits for patients and staff. Environment, equipment, education, and resources are...

Face gender recognition in developmental prosopagnosia: Evidence for holistic processing and use of configural information Joseph DeGutis a b , Garga Chatterjee b , Rogelio J. Mercado a b & Ken Nakayama b a Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, VA Boston Healthcare System, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA b Vision Sciences Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, M...

The Open University is a distance-based higher education institution. Most of our students are in employment and study from home, contacting their tutor and fellow students via e-mail and discussion forums. In this paper, we describe our undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the software systems area, how we teach them at a distance, and our focus on shifting our students’ minds into a refl...

This overview of neurosurgery in India during the last six decades gives a holistic perspective of the phenomenal advances made. Neurosurgical education, the change in clinical spectrum of diseases and their presentation, evolution of various subspecialties and societies, the state of research, the issues peculiar to India, including the urban-rural health divide, the increasing role of informa...

Globally, large-scale national initiatives are being implemented towards promoting the level and quality of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) use in school education. However, despite these efforts, the current level of ICT uptake from schools remains low. A wide range of factors have been identified as barriers, including lack of teachers’ ICT Competences and lack of ICT infrast...

1 Michael Usrey, University of Colorado, Lockheed-Martin Engineering Management Program, CB 433, Boulder, CO 80309 [email protected] Abstract  The economic future of the United States depends upon our continued leadership in the development of high technology products and services. Development of such products requires a robust engineering workforce. Unfortunately, current economic, m...