Today, there are many people who enjoy jogging in a regular basis. Many of them uses wearable devices to log their running time, route, etc. To improve running performance, it is important to assess running qualitatively as well. However, these devices do not assess quality of running, and do not teach users what to change and how to change in order to improve quality of running. The purpose of...

For pain in the perineum, cold compresses and analgesics may be used (NICE 2006). For urinary stress incontinence, the usual treatment is to teach and encourage pelvic floor exercises. For constipation and haemorrhoids, stool softeners may be needed. Making sure all milk is expressed is the first action with mastitis, and cold compresses may be used. If a bacterial infection is suspected, antib...

VOLUNTEERS 1­2 GOALS ­ Teach about thrust, or the air pushing back that causes the straw to move forward. ­ Relate it to how real rockets work by blasting off using thrust from rocket fuel. MATERIALS ­ Balloons (different shapes if possible) ­ Straws ­ Tape ­ Long piece of string (use the silky string that separates easily in the SWE closet) PLAN Explain activity and introduce instructions Test...

Software engineering is a rapidly changing discipline, and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. This pace of change brings both problems and opportunities to universities that teach software engineering. Engineers are no longer satis ed with one or two initial university education experiences, but by necessity are becoming lifetime learners, with frequent trips back to educational...

Many of these old adages can’t be traced back to their origins, but the reference to senior dogs and their learning capacity has a documented origin. The source of these well-worn words is an English gentleman named Fitzherbert who wrote a treatise on animal husbandry in 1523. In the cumbersome vernacular of the times, he said that “the dogge must lerne when he is a whelpe, or els it wyl not be...

September 2015 Abstract The canonical neoclassical model is insufficient to understand business cycle fluctuations in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). I reformulate the models proposed by Aguiar and Gopinath (2007) and Neumeyer and Perri (2005) in simple settings that can be used to do back-of-the-envelope analysis and teach business cycle macroeconomics for EMDEs at the underg...

BACKGROUND Physicians often do not provide adequate medication counseling. PURPOSE To develop and evaluate an educational program to improve physicians' assessment of adherence and their medication counseling skills, with attention to health literacy. METHODS We compared internal medicine residents' confidence and counseling behaviors, measured by self-report at baseline and one month after...

BACKGROUND Few medical teachers have received formal teaching education. Along with individual and organizational barriers to participation in teacher training programs, increasing numbers and altered distribution of physicians away from major teaching centers have increased the difficulty of attendance. Furthermore, it is not known if traditional faculty development formats are the optimal lea...

This paper examines computing academics’ conceptions of the Unix operating system, and the purpose of teaching Unix. Interview transcripts from nine academics were analysed phenomenographically. A small number of qualitatively different conceptions of Unix were identified, within two broad categories. The first broad category manifested a technical approach to Unix. Within this broad category, ...

Related Articles Laboratory Investigation of Noise-Canceling Headphones Utilizing “Mr. Blockhead” Phys. Teach. 51, 332 (2013) The use of dc glow discharges as undergraduate educational tools Am. J. Phys. 81, 663 (2013) Resistivity in Play-Doh: Time and Color Variations Phys. Teach. 51, 351 (2013) Corrected Launch Speed for a Projectile Motion Laboratory Phys. Teach. 51, 359 (2013) Improving the...