Team members: Thomas H. Gallagher, Co-Investigator Andrew White, Co-Investigator Meliha Yetisgen, PhD, Co-Investigator Amelia Chappelle, Research Manager Ben Dunlap, Research Staff Assistant 9/30/14-9/15/15 Jennifer Zech, Research Staff Assistant 9/16/15-9/29/16 Andrew Markiel, Computing Engineer Kevin Lybarger, graduate student (contractor) David Alonso, resident (volunteer) Ross Lordon, gradu...

To quantify the risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) following school contact with a student with smear positive respiratory TB in a population with a high background rate of tuberculosis, a retrospective cohort study was conducted. This study included all students and staff (n=1,065) at an inner city secondary school in Birmingham, United Kingdom (UK). Being in the same school year as the inde...

One of the key elements in modern approaches to providing professional development and support for teachers involves using objective data about student performance to help guide and focus these efforts. In fact, one of the core principles contained in the National Staff Development Council’s Standards for Staff Development (National Staff Development Council, 2001) requires the use of student d...

either social or psychological problems. Initially, a supportive identified member of that office screens the problem. The matter can then be referred to the Associate Dean or the year coordinator and discussed at the Student Welfare Committee meeting. Appropriate documentation is kept. Secondly, students may be reported to the Associate Dean by other concerned students or staff, usually when t...

BACKGROUND Despite the widespread introduction of active learning strategies to engage students across modern medical curricula, student attendance and attendance monitoring remain a challenging issue for medical educators. In addition, there is little published evidence available to medical educators regarding the use of attendance monitoring systems. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ...

Resource allocation techniques have recently appeared as a widely recognized feature in LTE networks. Most of existing approaches in resource allocation focus on maximizing network’s utility functions. The great potential of utility function in improving resource allocation and enhancing fairness and mean opinion score (MOS) indexes has attracted large efforts over the last few years. In this p...

–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Reported benefits of research-informed teaching include enhanced student engagement and graduates that are better prepared for employment in an uncertain world. However, there are a number of academic risks that can have both positive and negative impacts on staff and students when implementing research-informed teaching. Mitigating s...