BACKGROUND Remote assistance for burns by medical experts can support nurses and general physicians in emergency care with diagnostic and management advice. Previous studies indicate a high diagnostic accuracy based on images viewed on a computer screen, but whether image-based analysis by experts using handheld devices is accurate remains to be determined. METHOD A review of patient data fro...

THIS little book by Professor Rendle Short sets out to give an account of the structure and functions of the human body for the non-medical reader, and to present the student of physiology with accurate and up-to-date facts from a somewhat unusual angle. There is no doubt that the author succeeds in both these objects, and he gives a most interesting and instructive set of chapters ranging in s...

The Beef Information Nucleus is a series of large, well structured progeny test programs undertaken by Breed Societies with cofunding assistance from Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA). Young bulls of high genetic merit are joined by either AI or natural mating to a commercial cow base to produce progeny which are managed commercially as one cohort and measured for a range of economically traits....

OBJECTIVE to present the cultural adaptation of the questionnaire Costs of caring for children with cancer, offering a valid and reliable tool to assess the economic repercussions of childhood cancer for Brazilian families. METHOD it is a methodological research with a cross-sectional design. The methodological framework to validate the questionnaire was a combined process that included seven...

Given that educators increasingly have to integrate social and moral education within the general curriculum, this paper considers ways in which the visual arts may or may not be a useful resource for challenging the stereotypical preconceptions about gender and sexual identity held by many people in a post-industrial, intercultural society. Focusing on Tate Britain’s inaugural exhibition for t...