Providing the population by safe and good quality food is one of the most important objectives of every country. Healthy childhood nutrition and diet will basically determine the health state of present children in their adult age, thus it can be stated, that it will influence the future economic and social performance of the society. As children spend most of their time in educational institut...

Monitoring is an essential component of wildlife management and conservation. However, the usefulness of monitoring data is often undermined by the lack of 1) coordination across organizations and regions, 2) meaningful management and conservation objectives, and 3) rigorous sampling designs. Although many improvements to avian monitoring have been discussed, the recommendations have been slow ...

BACKGROUND Health care decision makers often need to make decisions in limited timeframes and cannot await the completion of a full evidence review. Rapid reviews (RRs), utilizing streamlined systematic review methods, are increasingly being used to synthesize the evidence with a shorter turnaround time. Our primary objective was to describe the processes and methods used internationally to pro...

Objectives At the completion of this course, the reader should be able to: 1. Identify the anatomical structures and functions of the “eloquent” cerebral cortex. 2. Understand the need for careful planning and implementation of anesthetic care in a patient undergoing an awake craniotomy. 3. List and discuss the components of a regional scalp block and associated caveats. 4. Describe the potenti...

This study is based on a review of 40 on-line anatomy web resources compiled from sites selected from our own searches as well as sites reviewed and published by an external group (Voiglio et al., 1999, Surg. Radiol. Anat. 21:65-68; Frasca et al., 2000, Surg. Radiol. Anat. 22:107-110). The purpose of our survey was to propose criteria by which anatomy educators could judge the characteristics o...