PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to report the distribution of procedures provided to Virginia Medicaid children by 3 types of dental providers in rural and urban areas. METHODS Medicaid claims filed for dental patients less than 21 years old were obtained and analyzed for fiscal years 1994-1995. Dental providers were categorized according to their practice type: (1) general practice (GP...

objectives: this study compared the effects of individual and group training on general health and stress of parents of children with autism spectrum disorders. methods: a sample of 75 parents of children referring to autistic children foundation (including 50 parents in two experimental groups and 25 parents in control group) was taken into account. sample parents were selected through accessi...

A system was developed for teaching non-Japanese learners pronunciation of Japanese lexical accents. The system first identifies word accent types in a learner's utterance using F0 change between two adjacent morae as the feature parameter. As for the representative F0 value for a mora, we defined one with a good match to the perceived pitch. The system notices the user if his/her pronunciation...

In this study, 3-year-olds matched on vocabulary score were taught three new shape terms by one of three types of linguistic contrast: corrective, semantic, or referential. A 5-week training paradigm implemented four training sessions and four assessment sessions. Corrective contrast ("This is concave, it is not square," where square is the child's label for the target) produced more learning t...

Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as one of the important and effective tools for education and training. Most VR-based training systems are situation-based, where the trainees are trained for discrete decision-making in special situations presented by the VR environments. In contrast, this paper discusses the application of VR to a different class of training, for learning motions, often requir...

M D t urgical training programs provide the structure for young hysicians to become thoughtful, responsible, and aware ttending surgeons; aware not only of the latest operative echniques and equipment, but also of the profound socital responsibility that comes with surgical training. For any years, opportunities have existed for general surgery esidents to participate in medical volunteer work ...