the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a selected motor program (as a motor experience) on manipulative skills in 4-6-year-old boys. 40 subjects were selected randomly using a personal information questionnaire. after the pretest, the ulrich's test of gross motor development (2000) including fundamental motor skills, locomotors skills, manipulative skills and controllin...

T raffic signal equipment and signaltimin.g improvements have been popular a~plications of oil overcharge funds in many states. Some of the states known to have provided restitution to those overcharged by petroleum companies include California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.’ When signal timings, signal hardware...

For an embryo transfer program to be effective, numerous factors need to be put in place to ensure success. Nutrition, estrous cycle control, donor and recipient management are all factors responsible for the success or failure in fertility for a given herd. Utilization of body condition score is a practical method to determine nutritional status of both recipients and donors. Prepartum nutriti...

This paper provides the rationale for, examples of, and the collection and general uses of currently available, potentially underutilized academic program assessment data. Academic program assessment is essential for program improvement and accreditation, but commonly used assessment methods may not fully meet these needs. General assessment references, pharmacy education literature, and prior ...

OBJECTIVE To determine early predictors of outcomes of adult patients with severe acute respiratory failure. METHOD 100 consecutive adult patients with severe acute respiratory failure were evaluated in this retrospective study. Data including comorbidities, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score, Acute Physiological Assessment and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score, PaO...

filtration may be costly, biofiltration can effectively and inexpensively reduce exhaust odors. Biofiltration costs for a 700-head farrow-to-wean swine facility are estimated at $0.25 per piglet, amortized over a 3-year life of the biofilter. Reductions of ammonia emission at that operation are approximately 74 percent, whereas reductions in both hydrogen sulfide and odor emissions are about 90...

It has been brought to our attention that there was a typographical error in our review article [1] published in February 2000. The last sentence of the abstract should read: " Two randomized studies found that, in difficult-to-wean patients, synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation (SIMV) is the most ineffective method of weaning. " Reference 1.

Education programs at all levels must be able to demonstrate successful program outcomes. Grades alone do not represent a comprehensive measurement methodology for assessing student learning outcomes at either the course or program level. The development and application of assessment rubrics provides an unequivocal measurement methodology to ensure a quality learning experience by providing a f...

EQUALIZATION REVISITED: ITS ROLE AND DESIGN BY ROBIN BOADWAY QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY Introduction Equalization is very much in the news these days. The program is the last vestige of the 1970s’ federal-provincial fiscal arrangements to remain more or less intact over the period of federal retrenchment. As such, it seems to be a sitting duck, a target for potshots from think tanks, pundits, ex-politi...