Carnegie Mellon researcher wins prestigious career award for NSF
...ademy. "Hopefully, our work will motivate more underrepresented minority students to think about earning Ph.Ds in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics," Higgs said....INTERMACS group reveals recent successes to international transplant community
...the potential benefit of this registry, we hope to motivate the international transplant community to assist with the development of a comprehensive international database in order to facilitate the availability of newer, more effective devices to patients with end-stage heart failure around the word." contin...Decorated professor adds Farfel Award to his long list of honors
...s rewarding. If they, in turn, go on to teach and motivate other students, I feel I also am teaching their students, indirectly." In a letter of support, one of his former students wrote Hussain "truly believes that teaching is not so much a matter of passing knowledge through narration or demonstration ...Help for pediatricians in treating behavioral health problems only partially successful
...c changes including use of financial incentives to motivate primary care pediatricians to identify, treat and refer behavioral patients, increased access to mental health providers for consultations, practice guidelines and use of technology for continuing education may change practice patterns. ...New Orleans levee report finished by panel including University of Texas at Austin engineer
... public forum about all these challenges will help motivate the people involved in making tough decisions about the future of New Orleans to start doing so. In August 2006, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the ASCE External Review Panel each published lists of steps to take to protect New Orleans, and s...Extra pay does not improve hospital performance
...ossibility of receiving higher reimbursements will motivate hospitals to improve the quality of their care. A study recently conducted by Premier, Inc., a group that represents hospitals participating in a large Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pilot project of pay for performance, found that p...Lower mortality rates associated with hospitals that rank highest on quality of care indicators
...the studys senior author. This program should also motivate hospitals to improve the care they provide to their patients.......ing type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease dont motivate children, but factors such as bullying do, she said. It gives a kid language to be able to talk about what it would mean to them to be able to make lifestyle changes, she said, adding that Janickes research helps advance researchers understanding ...