We evaluated an intergenerational program bringing together older people and adolescents to examine assumptions underlying intergenerational programming and determine if either generation changed its attitudes toward the other. Program components allowed older people and adolescents to act as either intergenerational helpers or recipients of help. The amount of intergenerational contact ...

The partnership program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine pairs less experienced students with more experienced students to work together during the last four years of a six-year curriculum. The present study has explored how the partnership program is supposed to work, whether in reality it ...

"There can be little doubt that major changes have taken place in recent years in the nature and organisation of skilled manpower moves. This short article sets out to investigate the ways in which these trends in high level manpower moves might be analysed. It arises from the discussions of ...

A new approach to short-term psychotherapy, based on psychoanalytic theory is presented as 'Therapy of limited time and objectives'. Personal experience, psychoanalytic knowledge and flexibility for accepting technical modifications allows for familiarity with concepts such as 'available setting', 'operational time' and 'adequate therapeutic time', which together with supervision and deep ...

General practitioners tend to regard psychologists as an alternative resource for patients. This paper describes an approach to clinical psychology in general practice in which a team of psychologists works with a general practitioner on a consultancy basis. In this way the psychologists and general practitioner work together, with the ...

Ten people met for the first time as trainees after lunch on Thursday, 4 February, 1988 at an hotel near Ipswich. They were to live and work together until teatime on Saturday. Twelve trainers joined them from late afternoon on Friday, staying on after the trainees left, until lunchtime on ...

The study investigated the relationship between the occurrence and intensity of nailbiting in a Turkish student population and the association with questionnaire measures of oral aggression, trait anxiety and intropunitive and extrapunitive hostility. The results indicated that the most consistent trait associated with nailbiting was oral aggression. Taken together with ...

A BASIC computer program is described for analysing individual repertory grids. The analysis results in a rearranged version of the grid, with similar constructs and similar elements grouped together. Element and construct similarities are assessed using single-link hierarchical cluster analysis. The program works with rating, ranked or dichotomous grids and ...

This study reports the development of a "worst ever episode" version of the Goldberg and Hillier (1979) GHQ-28. The scale was designed to provide a short self-report instrument for use with the general population that could be used to identify past episodes of psychopathology likely to be of clinical significance. ...

State Crippled Children's (CC) programs are known for their diversity in organization and varying coverage of diagnostic categories. Relatively little information is available concerning the programmatic priorities of CC agencies. To identify the activities central to the mission of State CC agencies, a survey was undertaken. Results from the survey ...

The Swedish Microgravity Sounding Rocket program MASER is presented. Especially the MASER 1 payload is depicted, but also an outlook for the future possibilities within the Short Duration Flight Opportunities is given. Furthermore the coordination and relation with the German TEXUS program is touched upon. With the two TEXUS and ...

In many operational settings, briefings take place at the beginning of a work period. Often, such briefings are made without much forethought and training. This article outlines some of the problems that are likely to be encountered in such situations and provides seven recommendations that should improve the memorability and ...

As Part V of the Journal's series on Bioengineering Education in the U.S., this paper describes college-level programs in the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Each program is concerned with the broad areas of science and engineering that work together to ...

Children who are slow to develop a normal phonological system often experience difficulty in learning to read. This fact is repeatedly referred to in the literature. This article attempts to look at factors which are common to the development both of phonology and reading ability. The literature relating sound synthesis ...

Dr. McCarthy has written several outstanding papers on the identification, ultrastructure, and treatment of this very common condition. In this article, he has placed together the most important therapeutic approaches used in today's podiatric offices and clinics in a clear and easy to read manner. Also, in typical McCarthy style, ...

The problems of free flap monitoring using the Periflux PF108D laser Doppler flowmeter (PLDF) are discussed, as are the indices of flap perfusion that the laser Doppler flowmeter can provide. The use of a microcomputer linked to a laser Doppler flowmeter by a suitable interface and using an appropriate monitoring ...

After five years, the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, out of generosity or vain-glory, has come to believe that its health policy interventions are a moveable feast. In what follows, the nation's premier interviewer extracts from three HMPRG stalwarts the history and the style of work which, up to ...

The farthest of the galaxies that can be seen through the large ground-based telescopes of modern astronomy, such as those on La Palma in the Canary Islands, are so far away that they appear as they did close to the time of the origin of the universe, perhaps some 10 ...

In settlement of alleged violations of federal law prohibiting unfair acts and practices and unfair methods of competition, this Consent Order requires an Ann Arbor, Michigan credit union, among other things, to cease failing to disclose, when rejecting a credit application or increasing the cost of credit, that the action ...

The psychological aspects of patient care have been taught at the Staffordshire School of Radiography for two years. Experiential learning techniques have been employed, alongside more traditional learning methods. The reasons for the use of these techniques are outlined in this article, together with details of the content and timing ...

Use of programmed movements seems to depend on comprehension of the required behavior of which the movements are part. Once this understanding becomes evident by correct behavior, smooth movement take-offs and landings are programmed together. Monkeys were trained to perform a step-tracking task that required accurate self-paced elbow movements of ...

The ageing game is a teaching method for up to 30 students (in all medical and paramedical disciplines) which allows maximum student involvement. It consists essentially of 90 individual cards, each of which bears a statement relevant to ageing or the practice of medicine in old age. The statements may ...

Isotope-containing rod-shaped bacteria approximate a line-segment source for purposes of autoradiography. This is because the width is small and bacteria are usually cylindrically symmetric. For this reason published work has only classified the silver grains longitudinally, independent of the transverse position. While the theoretical integral distribution from a variety of ...

In this windup of his series on team development (TD), Francis X. Mahoney, personnel development advisor for Exxon Company, U.S.A., sums up TD's advantages, shows how it can be used to meet organizational objectives, and indicates other ways of applying TD methods. Mahoney maintains that TD is truly "organization development ...

Student views of objectives and learning, during 4 weeks spent in general practice in the fifth year, are compared to those of the GPs to whom they were attached. Relationships between these views are discussed, together with their implications, for the wider contributions made by general practitioners to the undergraduate ...

Once again medical schools are actively putting together training programs in occupational medicine. Government funding is making it possible to add to the curriculum some interesting programs which introduce medical students to occupational medicine. The key to lasting success of any such undergraduate program lies in the cooperation of local ...

A suite of programs has been implemented to facilitate the storage and retrieval of references to published works in a typical scientific research establishment. The retrieval process is governed by searches for specified combinations of keywords, author names, individual references, and lengths of time that references have been held on ...

Methods for preparation of three dimensional information for isoline mapping are described based on Fourier, Chebyshev, and cubic interpolation from regularly spaced arrays of spatial data. Most current biomedical mapping is in electrocardiography, but other areas of application are likely. The procedures described can be used to make high quality ...

A Fortran computer program STEV (stereo evaluation) is described. The principles of the stereo techniques together with the calculation method of the stereo coordinates are given briefly. The determination of the rectangular coordinates from mean stereo coordinates is described. Radiation doses in anatomical points, during intracavitary and interstitial radiation therapy, ...

The level of competency in the diagnosis and treatment of common and emergency disorders needed by nonophthalmologists is assessed and then translated into explicit objectives that specify the levels of mastery to be learned. Effective and efficient methods and materials to achieve those objectives are developed; these, together with more ...

Parole outcome was measured 1 year after release of 397 narcotic addicts processed by an experimental program in which both institution and parole services were administered together. Conparison of outcome of this group to the outcome of 361 traditionally processed addicts revealed a positive effect on parole outcome of violators ...

From the array of sterilization procedures that are safe, simple and effective, the service provider must select procedures that fit his or her logistical criteria, which include the cost and maintenance of equipment, availability of supplies, and training of the requisite personnel. In this paper, these criteria are discussed for ...

Stimulated by Freud's comments on the unique perspectives offered by "building up dreams by synthesis," the authors applied this idea to the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute's introductory course on the psychology of dreaming. Each student was assigned the task of purposefully and consciously synthesizing a dream, utilizing certain assigned information ...

In this study revision procedures for examinations were investigated by questionnaire in a group of students undertaking a new pre-clinical course. The results revealed that students' own notes were by far the most preferred source of revision material and that lectures were the main source of these notes. Evidence of ...

The satisfactory organization of an educational exercise is dependent on the organizer having a precise understanding of the needs of his students, their present level of knowledge and understanding, the motives which govern their will to learn, and on the organizer's ability to draw together people with intellectual resources capable ...

A mobile crane survey was pursued for two years in conjunction with the Construction Industry Training Board. Information was collected on mobile cranes of the wheel and track type. Operational tasks were studied together with interactions which affect the optimum performance of the system in relation to the site organisation ...

The problem described in this article is essentially one of visibility in a steelworks. During work on a development project at Ebbw Vale, a problem was encountered in the siting of work stations in order to give the operatives a good view of the machine they controlled. After reviewing possible ...

One of the main in-flight problems being fulfilled by astronauts is the preparation for and realization of egress into open space for the purpose of different kinds of extravehicular activity, such as, the performance of scientific experiments, repairing and dismantling operations etc. The astronaut's activity outside the space vehicle is ...

Various requirements in the writing of a building program are discussed, by which the various parts of the library can function together. The interrelationship of functions, services, users, and materials should be carefully studied and diagrammed. The various groups involved in the library should be consulted for suggestions, and present ...

This paper describes the procedures and practices adopted for the cooperative cataloging program between NLM, Countway, and the Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse. Catalogers were trained by NLM, and the two libraries communicated data and queries by means of TWX and, later, IBM terminals. A description is given of how books ...

The Minnesota Zoo is situated on 500 acres in Dakota County and houses around 2,300 animals, with 105 animals representing 15 species on the United States Endangered Species Act list. The Zoo's mission is to engage people's interest in the living earth around them and to this end they provide ...

This article is a report on a 3-day workshop for adults with a learning disability. The group work described formed part of the annual Self-Advocacy Skills Workshop held at the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire. This year's workshop took place on 7-10 January 1996. It is suggested that user-oriented events ...

Most specialist training posts are filled after short-listing and interview by an ad hoc group representing various interests who never work together as a team. They are rarely required to predict the outcome and receive no feedback on their success. Structuring and planning the interview, training the interviewers, limiting their ...

While much has been written about the value of clinical supervision and theoretical models of how it should take place, few accounts exist of how it works in practice. This paper illustrates how supervision was implemented within a directorate in one trust. Both pitfalls and successes of the project are ...