OBJECTIVE We used the Indian Health Service (IHS) Diabetes Care and Outcomes Audit to assess the effectiveness of clinical nutrition education in reducing HbA(1c) levels and to test the relative effectiveness of clinical nutrition education when it was delivered by a registered dietitian (RD) compared with an educator from another discipline (non-RD). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We examined c...

after around a hundred years of being without any record of occurrence of paracobitis rhadinaea, a species of nemacheiline loach, in sistan basin, southeast of iran, the year 2012 was the turning point of wild life in this area. twenty-five specimens were caught from chahnimeh reservoir, a water body adjacent to the hamoun wetland in sistan basin. morphometric and meristic characteristics were ...

The book ‘Developing expertise through experience’consists of twenty chapters written by language educators. Alan Maley has edited the book. The writers of the chapters have written their stories and experiences about learning English and being an Educator with regard to the notion of ‘sense of plausibility’ defined by Prabhu. Prabhu explains that plausibility in pedagogy is teachers’ intuition...

BACKGROUND Health professionals with the level of competency necessary to provide high-quality patient education are central to meeting patients' needs. However, research on how competencies in patient education should be developed and health professionals trained in them, is lacking. The aim of this study was to investigate the characteristics of an expert educator according to health professi...

In a recent article [1], the authors describe the process of issuing ‘well baby certificates’ to 1668 babies whose mothers opted for puerperal sterilization within a week of delivery. It is mentioned that 210 of these babies weighed less than 2.5 kg, out of which 17 weighed less than 2 kg (16 small for gestational age and one preterm). We have some concerns regarding the observations of the aut...

the purpose of this paper is to design entrepreneurship model of agricultural extension in the context of agricultural sustainable development. in fact the purpose of this paper is to identify the prerequisite (the influential factors of entrepreneurship), process (development of entrepreneurial program in organization); context (extension perspective in the context of agricultural sustainable ...