INTRODUCTION Evidence-based technical assistance may be needed to implement recent federal policy to prevent childhood obesity through the schools. The Healthy Schools Program is the largest school-based obesity prevention program in the United States. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the role of the program's training and technical assistance and to explore other contributing fact...

INTRODUCTION The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has administered the Prevention Research Centers Program since 1986. We quantified the number and reach of training programs across all centers, determined whether the centers' outcomes varied by characteristics of the academic institution, and explored potential benefits of training and technical assistance for academic researchers an...

The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies was established at Georgia State University with the objective of promoting excellence in the design, implementation, and evaluation of public policy. In addition to two academic departments (economics and public administration), the Andrew Young School houses seven leading research centers and policy programs, including the International Studies Progra...

The subject of “technical assistants” in inpatient care is currently being widely discussed in scientific and public circles. In many cases, though, it has become apparent that the umbrella term “assistive technologies”, also in the context of robotics, is very contrived. Against this background, the authors of this article reflect on the meaning of “assistance” in socio-technical systems, and ...

North East Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea fisheries are governed by the European Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). Despite the fact that both areas are managed under the same broad fishery management system, a large discrepancy in management performance occurs, with recent considerable improvement of stock status witnessed in the North East Atlantic and a rapidly deteriorating situation in the...

This project is the first stage of a larger program of research into hazard perception training for motorcycle riders. Future stages of the project will investigate what type of environment can be used to teach hazard perception and responding, for example a motorcycle simulator or a combination of off-road and simulator training. The first report (Haworth, Mulvihill & Symmons, 2005) reviews th...

Between 1985 and 1988, the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Chapter 1 Technical Assistance Center developed, refined, and disseminated a research-based process for improving local compensatory education programs. Known as the Chapter 1 Improvement Process (CHIP), the effort combined knowledge from five research areas into a year-long, cross-district interactive program improvement effo...

This paper reports the participation of team WBSG in the English entity-linking task at TAC KBP 2011. As first-timers in TAC, we used the opportunity to test the entity linking accuracy of our general-purpose entity and concept annotation system. Our system, DBpedia Spotlight, does not specialize on named entities of certain types. Its aim is to annotate any of the ≈3.5M entities and other conc...

The Project began consultations and planning with state and district officials in 2007 and helped GOJH to implement the SBA training programme in 2008 in a pilot initiative in Deoghar district. Based on the evidence of improved knowledge and practice of SBA skills and increasing institutional deliveries in Deoghar, GOJH decided to scale up the intervention in all 24 districts of the state in 20...