A Symposium on Lead Remediation Effectiveness, sponsored by the US Environmental Protection Agency, was held at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA from 22-25 May, 2000. International participants from various levels of government, educational institutions, industry, and community representatives presented papers and posters on themes that ranged from engineering practices through community participation...

Cloud computing is an emerging technology that access remote servers through Internet to maintain data and applications. It incorporates the advantages of grid and utility computing. Academia has not remained unaware of this trend, and several educational solutions(LMS) based on cloud technologies are already in place, especially for software as a service(SAAS) cloud. Education is a self-enligh...

Large amounts of scientific digital contents are nowadays held by scientific institutions which collect, produce and store information valuable for dissemination, work, study and research. In this context, the development of the web and of learning technologies has brought new opportunities for teachers and learners to retrieve and share pedagogical objects. This paper introduces the use of a s...

BACKGROUND The academy movement developed in the United States as an important approach to enhance the educational mission and facilitate the recognition and work of educators at medical schools and health science institutions. OBJECTIVES Academies initially formed at individual medical schools. Educators and leaders in The University of Texas System (the UT System, UTS) recognized the academ...

Technical educational institutions (TEIs) can use enterprise resource planning for an integrated, better and efficient system for management of all the information related to many users in these Institutions. Though ERP is used in many TEIs in India, but it has not been found to be completely successful. This paper aims at assessing the efficiency of implementing an ERP system from users’ persp...

With social network sites growing in popularity, many organisations have started to use this platform to market themselves. However, marketing on social network sites is different from traditional marketing. Its value lies in engaging members of the social network and generating shared cultural meaning of the advertised brand rather than promoting awareness of the brand to a large number of peo...

The proliferation of clinical ethics in health care institutions around the world has raised the question about the qualifications of those who serve on ethics committees and ethics consultation services. This paper discusses some of weaknesses associated with the most common educational responses to this concern and proposes a complementary approach. Since the majority of those involved in cli...