The river dolphin or bufeo (Inia boliviensis) is an endemic cetacean of the upper Madeira River basin inBolivia; nevertheless there are few biological studies on this species. This report presents the first record ofthe diet of an individual juvenile bufeo within its distribution. In two rivers of the upper Madeira river basin inBolivia during the rising water season, a newborn and ...

BACKGROUND We assessed the level of knowledge, attitudes, and practices of recent graduates of clinical health sciences who started their one-year internship in Uganda. METHODOLOGY This was a cross-sectional survey responded to by 209 (response rate of 70%) new interns who started their internships in August 2011 in different Ugandan hospitals. Validated self-administered questionnaires with ...

BACKGROUND Human resources management in health often encounters problems related to workforce geographical distribution. The aim of this study was to investigate the internship workplace preferences of final-year medical students and the reasons associated with their choices. METHOD A total of 204 out of 240 final-year medical students at Zagreb University Medical School, Croatia, were surve...

Context: The recruitment of sufficient health workers in rural and remote areas has been a constant challenge in many countries for decades. This article describes how medical internship (18 months of mandatory practical training, including 6 months in primary care, after graduation but before granted full license as a doctor) is used in Norway as one method of recruiting young doctors. Finnmar...

1 Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, Integrated Teaching and Learning Program and Laboratory, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, 522 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0522, [email protected]. 2 Derek Reamon, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, 427 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0427, Dere...

Distributed algorithms are known for being tedious to design and assess. Since they are based on the interaction of several independent components, they are hard to envision for the sequential human brains. Deadlocks, race conditions and resource starvation are unfortunately common problems of distributed computing. Model checking is one of the most successful techniques to assess that a distri...