scholarly journals Public Bikesharing and Modal Shift Behavior: A Comparative Study of Early Bikesharing Systems in North America

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Shaheen ◽  
Elliot Martin ◽  
Adam Cohen
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Modal Shift ◽  
Shift Behavior

A comparative study of community medicine and public health curriculum at medical schools in Iran and North America

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-19
Author(s):  
Tahereh Changiz ◽  
Mahasti Alizadeh
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
North America ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
General Medicine ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Medicine ◽  
Center Staff ◽  
Health Curriculum ◽  
Spiral Curriculum

Background: Community medicine and public health are the core subjects in medical education. One of the main competencies of general physicians in the national curriculum is having knowledge and skills in health promotion and disease prevention in the health system. Any curriculum revision in community medicine departments needs to incorporate the evidence and use pioneer countries’ experiences in this issue. This study aims to compare community medicine and public health courses in medical schools between Iran and selected universities in North America. Methods: The elements of a community medicine curriculum for medical students were compared in a descriptive-comparative study using the Bereday model. These elements included objectives and competencies, educational strategies, teaching and learning methods, assessment, and educational fields in a community medicine curriculum in Iran and in selected universities in North America. A literature search was conducted in CINAHL, SCOPUS, MEDLINE, Web of Science, EBSCO, and on university websites. Results: Essential aspects of community-based strategies among community medicine and public health curriculum of general medicine in universities in Canada and the United States included a longitudinal approach, training in urban and rural primary care centers, teaching by family physicians and health center staff, a spiral curriculum, focus on social determinants of health, taking of social and cultural histories and social prescriptions, learning teamwork, and using LIC (Longitudinal Integrated Curriculum). Conclusion: The objective of community medicine and public health curriculum in selected North American universities was to prepare general practitioners who work in Level 2 and 3 hospitals and to improve their skills to provide high-quality services to the community. Some of the successful points in the selected universities that could be replicated in Iranian faculties of medicine included using integration strategy, a spiral curriculum, and an LIC approach.

Art in the digital age: a comparative study of the adoption of electronic visual resources in the UK, Ireland and North America

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Victoria Brown ◽  
Catherine Worrall
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
North America ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Uk

Love it or loathe it, digital is here to stay. This article explores the enormous effect that digital visual media and the ubiquity of the internet have had on the supply and delivery of images at higher education institutions, on both sides of the Atlantic. It observes the levels at which regulated digital visual resources have been adopted and looks at the problems inherent in rapidly evolving technology and the demands of the ‘millennials’ and ‘digital natives’. It also examines the barriers preventing a more fluid adoption of legal, good quality resources and the role that image specialists bring to the mix.

A comparative study of Pyrola minor × Pyrola asarifolia (Ericaceae) and its parental species in North America

1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 1054-1061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erich Haber
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Pollen Fertility ◽  
Parental Species ◽  
Aleutian Islands ◽  
Intermediate Form ◽  
Flower Number ◽  
Quantitative Characters ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Blade Width

This study is the first documented account of the occurrence of the hybrid Pyrola minor × Pyrola asarifolia in North America. Seventeen localities have been verified with 15 of these occurring in the Cordillera from Colorado to the Aleutian Islands. In the east, one locality has been found in Ontario and one in Quebec. The hybrid is intermediate in morphology in 10 of 12 quantitative characters analyzed. Eight character means were significantly distinct for all three taxa (flower number, lengths of bracts, sepals, petals, anthers, petioles, styles and blade width). The hybrid differs from the parents in having campanulate flowers with distinctly exserted styles and anthers of intermediate form that are frequently malformed and have relatively large pores. Pollen fertility is low as judged by the high incidence of collapsed tetrads.

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