Abstract Most of Earth’s rain falls in the tropics, often highly seasonal monsoon rains, which are thought to be coupled inter-hemispheric migrations Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone response cycle insolation. Yet characterization tropical rainfall behaviour geologic past is poor. Here we combine new and existing hydroclimate records from six large-scale regions with fully independent model-base...

an electrocardiogram (ecg) leads physicians to diagnose many potentially life-threatening cardiac, metabolic, electrolyte, and toxicological conditions. this study was designed to evaluate the competency of emergency medicine residents (emrs) in comparison with cardiologists in the interpretation of ecg when an interpretation checklist is used. this clinical trial was done in the emergency ward...

BACKGROUND Treadmill training (with or without robotic assistance) has been reported to improve balance skills in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). However, its effectiveness on postural instability has been evaluated mainly in patients with mild to moderate PD (Hoehn & Yahr stage ≤3). Patients with more severe disease may benefit from robot-assisted gait training performed by the Gait-Tr...

Training or education? Berge writes: "Training has to do with the learners' acquiring knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are useful to them immediately to improve performance on the job. Education … is just-in-case and not just-in-time." (p.4). He also writes he "strongly believe that there must be a direct and clear link between training and the solving of a business problem." (p.4). As he ...

The main objective of this study is to understand the relationship between green management and environmental training in Brazilian companies, underscoring how this relationship takes place and its most important factors. For such, 9 case studies were conducted at large ISO 14001 certified companies, leaders in their market segments. Several interviews were conducted for each case, documents we...

the purpose of this case report was to evaluate the effectiveness of training of transfer techniques to a caregiver of a person who had suffered a stroke in decreasing musculoskeletal pain, depression and anxiety. this study adopted a single subject research design to evaluate the effectiveness of transfer-techniques training on musculoskeletal pain, depression, and anxiety in a 25-year-old fem...

the birth or presence of a child with hearing defect provides unique and different challenges for family. however, in this situation all family members are hurt and their functions are impaired, but the mother, due to the traditional role of caregiver for these children to have more responsibility, more psychosocial problems may be encountered. the assumption is that the problems associated wit...