This is the second book in 'Health, Functioning and Technology' series. The focus of this on teaching, learning assessment rehabilitation education within African context. primary contributors to are authors from occupational therapy, physiotherapy speech-language therapy South Africa. discuss local contextual drivers for renewing professions curricula that support graduates becoming competent,...

objectives: speech and language development is one of the main aspects of evolution in humans and is one of the most complex brain functions such that it is referred to as one of the highest cortical functions such as thinking, reading and writing. speech and language disorders are considered as a major public health problem because they cause many secondary complications in the childhood and a...

This is the second book in 'Health, Functioning and Technology' series. The focus of this on teaching, learning assessment rehabilitation education within African context. primary contributors to are authors from occupational therapy, physiotherapy speech-language therapy South Africa. discuss local contextual drivers for renewing professions curricula that support graduates becoming competent,...

I found your editorial entitled “Research and publishing in rehabili tation medicine” (1) very informative and interesting. However, I would like to suggest that, in addition to the recommendations made, emphasis should also be placed on the importance of the health economics perspective for this area of research. I make this suggestion on the basis of the findings from a review of the health e...

Currently, the Chinese government leads urban renewal via a top-down management style with the government playing the role of decision-maker. The decision-making opinions held by groups of stakeholders are divided, which creates many social problems, project technical issues and even civil disorder. This paper uses factor analysis to extract the key variables for decision-making on urban renewa...

this study was aimed to assess the causes of the structural decline in the renewal rate of apristine oak forest close to rome (central italy) by analyzing long-term measurements of the water budget in open and fenced areas. despite dry climate conditions in the area, long-term soil moisture measurements at 100 cm soil depth indicated that an enough large amount of water is available to oaks dur...