This paper addresses the ways in which teachers whole-class discussions invite students to elaborate their previous turn. Our conversation analytic study uncovers that teachers’ invitations are prompted by elicited as well spontaneous student turns of both subjective and factual nature. While giving space expand on turn, most nevertheless steer towards a specific type response, namely an accoun...

Health impact assessment (HIA)--a combination of methods to examine formally the potential health effects of a proposed policy, program, or project--has received considerable interest over the past decade internationally as a practical mechanism for collaborating with other sectors to address the environmental determinants of health and to achieve more effectively the goals of population health...

This paper proposes a global and complete decision support tool able to help decision makers in the reengineering of a surgical suite. Under increasing economic pressure and subject to rapid evolutions of technology and surgical protocols, hospitals have to consider radical organisational changes to ensure continuous efficiency. Recent findings in enterprise modelling highlight the importance o...

Widespread concern about the obesity epidemic has put research on physical activity into a public policy spotlight. Congress, state legislatures, and city councils are all considering measures designed to help create environments that reduce the risk of obesity. While the majority of these actions to date have centered on nutritional issues, many measures to encourage physical activity are also...

Introduction: Breast milk for infants, is the vital importance. So that is essential in the infant immune levels against the risk of acute respiratory infections, diarrhea, and supply minerals and vitamins, and also Emotional relationship between mother and child is stronger. And the infant will lead to the development of IQ. Considering that breast milk volume is directly related to the freque...

Background: Breast milk is an ideal source of nutrition for growth and development of infants and has unique physiologic and emotional impacts on the health of mothers and infants. However, a few numbers of infants get exclusive breast milk and therefore, it is necessary to identify barriers to breastfeeding. The purpose of the present qualitative research was to explore challenges and barriers...

Criminologists lament that their voices are seldom heard in the rooms of policy. Although all interest groups suffer similar distress, we criminologists do have a point. Much criminal justice policy is what some of my colleagues call “quackery” (Latessa, Cullen, and Gendreau, 2002); it is devoid of not only evidence but also of logic. Some approaches to crime and justice receive little policy s...