This paper describes the development and first results of a brief self-management course for patients recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. The intervention incorporates elements from proactive coping and self-regulation theory in a five-step plan to help newly diagnosed patients formulate and carry out intentions with regard to their self-management. The theoretical framework and course pro...

The Chinese National Quality Course Plan is a large-scale project by the Ministry of Education, which has led to the production of more than 12 000 courses from some 700 universities since 2003. This paper describes in detail the purpose of the project and how it is organized at all levels, including how individual courses get selected at university level, provincial level and national level. T...

A well-designed and constructed course plan or curriculum is an integral part of the foundation of effective STEM instruction. This paper presents a framework for outcome-based course design that can be translated into a semantic web-based tool which guides STEM educators through the complex task of curriculum design, ensures tight alignment between various components of a course (i.e., learnin...

In the spring of 2004, a semester-long course for undergraduates was organized as part of CMU’s student-taught StuCo (student college) curriculum. The course covered material ranging from a historical background on Inferno’s development, the Limbo programming language and related systems such as Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP), to the implementations of the Inferno emulator and native ...

As contribution to a requirements specification for a federated university course model, a collection of desirable characteristics along several distinct criteria or ‘facets’ is proposed. Two historical University of Oslo courses, “Information Design” and “Socio-Semantic Web and Knowledge Federation” are described that in part implemented those characteristics, which were intended to be predece...

This case report discusses the preanesthesia plan, actual anesthesia administration, and the postanesthesia course involving a gravid achondroplastic dwarf. The need for discussion of all anesthesia options when planning the anesthesia care associated with uncommon disorders and pregnancy is illustrated.

after the victory of constitution revolution, the context became ready for creating new institutions. one of the main elements of these institutions was making people familiar with their social and political rights. thus establishment of parliament and political and social institutions in iran clarified the necessity of political and economic independence. as one of the major concerns of parlia...

One of the problems that must be solved during coalition operations is the planning problem: finding a course of actions for the operation. Knowledge-based planning is a technique that can be used to address this problem. However, traditional planning has focussed on the finding of a plan that achieves a given goal or accomplishes a given task. During a coalition operation such a plan may need ...