The propagation of teen drug use cessation programs internationally are increased in recent decade. Use of evidence-based teen drug use prevention program might help more decrease the prevalence of drug use among teens. Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) is a communitywide strategic planning tool Facilitated by public health leadership to help communities prioritize ...

Vocational education refers to the training of specific skills or trades. It is often done part time or in personal time over a lengthy period (months to years). As such, it requires persistence, self motivation and self regulatory skills including goal setting, planning and time management. A growing body of evidence suggests that these self-regulating skills are a key determinant in learning ...

This article demonstrates that careful planning and management can help to ensure effective learning for pre-registration students during theory and practical skills teaching. It highlights two lesson plans with intended learning outcomes, one for a didactic teaching session and the other for a psychomotor clinical skills session. The article identifies a variety of teaching and learning strate...

In recent years, humanoid soccer robots improved considerably. Elementary soccer skills, such as bipedal walking, visual perception, and collision avoidance have matured enough to provide for dynamic and exciting soccer games. While the elementary skills still remain hot research topics, it is time to move forward and address higher level skills, such as motion planning and team play. In this w...

This study evaluated the utility of generic teamwork skills training for enhancing the effectiveness of action teams. Results from 65 four-person action teams working on an interdependent command and control simulator revealed that generic teamwork skills training had a significant and positive impact on both cognitive and skill-based outcomes. Trained team members evidenced higher levels of de...

This paper gives a brief overview of the Animate Agent Project at the University of Chicago, describing skills, RAPs, and a recently added spatial planning module. The RAP system takes in symbolic goals and refines them into sequences of continuous skills that move the robot in real-time. The RAP system uses the spatial module as an assistant when spatial problems arise during goal refinement. ...

introduction: management is a specialized science and most of the health managers are not familiar with scientific management methods and direct their organization on the basis of their own experiences and assumptions, it is necessary to devise comprehensive educational programs according to the results of needs assessment in order to promote the quality of health care services. materials and m...

introduction. considering rights of patients and presence of a need for a standard clinical skills learning setting in recent 3 decades, it seems necessary to encourage decision – makers of medical education to establish clinical skills laboratory, in order to minimize unnecessary practices and possible injuries and reduce stress over students. cls in tums was established in 2001. in planning p...

52 British Journal of General Practice, January 2014 InTroduCTIon A family planning post offers a unique and valuable opportunity to build confidence, knowledge, and skills that are essential during a career in general practice. Doctors may be expected to answer complicated queries about contraceptives and this can be challenging if experience of family planning is limited. Unfortunately gainin...

A simple framework is developed for representing plans, goals and resources of agents in order to model cooperative planning behavior. Plans are represented as acyclic networks of skills that, given adequate initial resources, can realize special resources (goals). Given the storage costs of resources, application costs of skills, and values of goals we can reason about the profits of a plan fo...