BACKGROUND Due to the increasing prevalence of obesity among children, Shuttle Run Test (SRT) has been used as primary outcome for assessment of both physical performance and responses to different physical training programs. Thus, this study aimed to compare the performance on SRT between obese and non-obese children and the reproducibility of two SRTs carried out on different days. METHODS ...

Journal clubs have been traditionally incorporated into academic training programs to enhance competency in the interpretation of literature. We designed a structured journal club (JC) to improve skills in the interpretation of literature; however, we were not aware of how learners (interns, residents, clinical pharmacists, etc.) would perceive it. We aimed to assess the perception of learners ...

PURPOSE The primary goal of this 3 year grant-funded pilot project was to determine if a specialized training program could increase the number of dental hygienists in New York state who routinely address tobacco use with their patients. METHODS A training program based on the 2000 Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, was developed to educate licensed and register...

ROGRAMS designed for preparing people for living in another culture are usually referred to as “Cross-Cultural or Intercultural Orientation Programs.” It seems that the early practitioners and researchers viewed preparing people for international assignment as a process in which one needed to be oriented to the differences in social interactions between the two cultures. It is no surprise that ...

This paper describes our efforts towards cross-domain acoustic training for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) systems. We used weighted multi-style training by pooling insufficient telephony landline and cellular data with down sampled wide band clean data to develop better hybrid acoustic models. We explored the effects on decision tree size to accuracy by approximately 10...

Background:The need for continuity in medical education with the advent of COVID -19, has been highlighted light current global pandemic situation. As risks posed by -19 must be balanced against to care patients and protect health workers, cross-training various professions is now more important than ever. In response line practice, Ministry National Security, King Abdul-Aziz Medical City-Jedda...