USF creates national patient safety center to study fall-related injuries, medication errors
...ngs about patient falls and medication errors into educational programs and clinical practices and technologies that will make the health care system safer, Dr. Wolfson said. It will build on the success of the Patient Safety Center of Inquiry, established at James A. Haley VA Hospital in 1999 and directed by A......king to build new strength involves developing new educational programs in bioinformatics, an emerging field that focuses on the use of computing to help manage and analyze the massive amount of datanow being generated in the biosciences. A committee chaired by Douglas Kankel, professor of molecular, cellular an...High school teacher explores South Pole
...be ableto follow her field activities and complete educational activities related to the team'sAntarctic research via the World Wide Web. "I heard about TEA at a teachers' convention, when I attended a presentation by ateacher who had participated in the program last year," Cleckley said. "I had tosubmit an ext......atients reach their glycaemic goals. TIME2COMBINE educational meetings are currently being held across the UK for all levels of healthcareprofessional. Practical tools and services to enable healthcare providers and patients to manage the disease effectively will shortly become available....Conservation International and Starbucks announce new coffee sourcing guidelines
...oosting producer incomes, expanding employment and educational opportunities, and enhancing local infrastructure and public services. Vendors will be expected to provide reliable documentation regarding prices paid to their suppliers. Starbucks is excited about the opportunity to work with producers and export...Researchers say gene discoveries could translate to health benefits, but consent should be updated
... for informed consent documents and a supplemental educational brochure to accompany those documents. Their new paper explains why the language is necessary and to expose their ideas for further public discussion and development. Much of the information, written as plainly as possible, was designed to spell out ...Keck grant launches Gulf Coast Consortia
...ibing and understanding biological phenomena." The educational component will include an expansion of the Keck Ce...Science Center.Under the auspices of the GCC, this educational component will involve 90 faculty from six institutions, who will train more than 100 students in th...The ecological consequences of 'promiscuous' boating
...lts of this study permit the development of better educational policies that can focus more precisely on the mechanisms of highest risk, i.e., entangled macrophytes. The results of this study are applicable to the dispersal of other aquatic species, including the past, present and future invaders of North Ameri...Fogarty International Center announces new research training program in genetics
... middle-income countries. The program will provide educational opportunities at the Ph.D. and Masters level and will contribute to the capacity of developing country scientists and institutions to conduct human genetics research that is relevant to the health needs of developing countries. Scientists and health...Record in research dollars: UH receives $12.3 million in November
...ols help Spanish-speaking children achieve optimal educational outcomes and the important roles that language plays in these outcomes. Francis received $2 million in November from the U.S. Department of Education for a portion of the multi-year, multi-phase study, which will include working closely with childre...2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting - Media Advisory 1
...blic information officers of scientific societies, educational institutions, and government agencies: must present a business card. Note: Representatives of publishing houses, for-profit corporations, and the business side of news media must pre-register through the AGU web site or register at the main regist...Bhutan signs conservation agreement at Field Museum Jan. 22
...the countrys biodiversity museum as a research and educational center. This will include offering educational programs for the citizens of Bhutan and developing materials for eco-tourists, who provide a large p...Media Advisory 2 - 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting: press conferences scheduled
...blic information officers of scientific societies, educational institutions, and government agencies: must present a business card. Note: Representatives of publishing houses, for-profit corporations, and the business side of news media must pre-register through the AGU web site or register at the main registra...New high-tech center aids medicine, energy, environmental research
...lars designated for projects in new computational, educational facility HOUSTON, Feb. 19, 2002 A new computation, visualization and educational facility unveiled today at the University of Houston will connect UH researchers with scientists wor...Researchers will study cell growth, differentiation
...ineering and School of Medicine, is a research and educational initiative whose mission is to understand the dynamic information systems in cells. CSI includes industry and academic participants in collaborative research studies, focused on integrating genomic and functional information, powerful bioinformatics ...Purdue to help NASA create life-supporting ecosystem in space
...le for its potential social impacts gained through educational outreach and developing partnerships with minority...hich includes food crops. Ten percent will provide educational outreach. The center's associate directors, Purdue civil engineering professors James Alleman and Ka...Unique national park for orchids to be declared in Africa
...conservation projects around the globe, pioneering educational programs, and the nations largest system of urban zoos, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo, the organization brings a unique set of assets to the work of protecting wild ecosystems. Central to this effort is inspiring people to get involved in safeguardi...URI oceanographer to assess impact of climate change on ocean ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles
...Rothstein and a team of 15 scientists from several educational institutions and government laboratories are launching the Partnership for Advancing Interdisciplinary Global Modeling (PARADIGM). The initial award will fund the first five years of this ten-year program. The PARADIGM scientists are committed to......re different for each category of website, such as educational websites (.edu). However, the general rule is that the faster the number of sites in a category grows, the more extreme the distribution is (with fewer popular sites and more unpopular sites). Journal article: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v65/e0...