Governments are required to take proper measures promote the use of electric and hybrid vehicles and, more generally, push people towards sweeter modalities including walking biking. To reach such tight challenging goals, local institutions should be deeply involved, universities among them. The promotion sustainable mobility practices commuter students must considered indeed an effective contr...

Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a commonly occurring, yet historically poorly understood, mental health concern among post-secondary students. The present study sought to identify the current knowledge needs of university stakeholders inform training efforts around effective NSSI response and student support on campuses. Participants were 1,762 students, staff, student-staff (77% female) from...

1Department of Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Centers, Ein Kerem and 2Department of Medicine, Mount Scopus Campuses, Jerusalem, Israel. Eldad Ben-Chetrit, MD Suhail Aamar, MD Please address correspondence to: Eldad Ben-Chetrit, MD FMF Clinic, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, POB 12000, Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] Received on August 4, 2009. Clin Exp ...

Virtual learning has opened new vistas in meta-information handling. Large collections of portfolios and e-books, large communities of e-people and processes over widespread virtual campuses impose a new management strategy. The most appropriate solution for a global university is to use a grid architecture based on distributed warehouses in order to use its distributed processing power. This p...

Given the prevalence and risk associated with indoor tanning among college students, university campuses constitute a prime target for skin cancer prevention. This report identifies the successes and challenges faced in promoting a campus-wide tan-free policy through the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention (NCSCP) Indoor Tan-Free Skin Smart Campus Initiative. Beginning in February 2016, ...

The segregation of waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in the generating source, its characterization (quali-quantitative) and identification of origin, besides being integral parts of classification reports, are crucial steps to the success of its integrated management. The aim of this paper was to count WEEE generation at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil...