R Foster
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 889 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R Foster |
| PRENOMES | R |
| SOBRENOME | Foster |
| ASSINATURA | FOSTER R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Regeneration House Inc., Toronto, Ontario |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 158 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Eric Hobsbawm
P2-332 Selecting priority health risk factors for researching preventive interventions
Introduction To maximise health gain with constrained health sector resources, it is necessary to identify the highest priority risk factor areas for studying preventive interventions. We aimed to develop a process for prioritising such risk factors for further research, in the New Zealand setting. Methods Using WHO data for high-income countries in the Western Pacific Region, the burden of disease in disability-adjusted life years associated wit…
Coca-Globalization
This book explores globalization through a historical and anthropological study of how familiar soft drinks such as Coke and Pepsi became valued as more than mere commodities. Foster discusses the tra
On teaching AI and expert systems courses
The experiences of faculty members from departments of engineering, mathematics, and computer science throughout the United States and Puerto Rico who came together for three weeks to discuss effective ways to teach artificial intelligence to undergraduates are outlined. The paper describes the rationale for the development of three main topic areas: artificial intelligence, expert systems, and symbolic and logic programming, and it includes syll…
Supportive Housing
The current debate about how to provide housing for persons with persistent psychiatric disabilities should be informed by empirical information from a variety of sources. Data from a study of 17 residents discharged from Regeneration House Inc., illustrates the value of consumer perceptions in the evaluation of supportive housing. Extensive exploration of the positive and negative aspects of living in a group home from the perspective of experie…
Practice of breast self examination
Premorbid breast self examination seems to have a modest effect on the extent of disease at diagnosis. The still widespread use of radical surgery suggests that a careful reanalysis of priorities among possible public interventions is needed before launching massive educational campaigns targeted exclusively at consumers
Making National Cultures in The Global Ecumene
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior
Making National Cultures in The Global Ecumene
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Eric Hobsbawm
A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior
Practice of breast self examination
Premorbid breast self examination seems to have a modest effect on the extent of disease at diagnosis. The still widespread use of radical surgery suggests that a careful reanalysis of priorities among possible public interventions is needed before launching massive educational campaigns targeted exclusively at consumers
Making National Cultures in The Global Ecumene
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Supportive Housing
The current debate about how to provide housing for persons with persistent psychiatric disabilities should be informed by empirical information from a variety of sources. Data from a study of 17 residents discharged from Regeneration House Inc., illustrates the value of consumer perceptions in the evaluation of supportive housing. Extensive exploration of the positive and negative aspects of living in a group home from the perspective of experie…
On teaching AI and expert systems courses
The experiences of faculty members from departments of engineering, mathematics, and computer science throughout the United States and Puerto Rico who came together for three weeks to discuss effective ways to teach artificial intelligence to undergraduates are outlined. The paper describes the rationale for the development of three main topic areas: artificial intelligence, expert systems, and symbolic and logic programming, and it includes syll…
Coca-Globalization
This book explores globalization through a historical and anthropological study of how familiar soft drinks such as Coke and Pepsi became valued as more than mere commodities. Foster discusses the tra
P2-332 Selecting priority health risk factors for researching preventive interventions
Introduction To maximise health gain with constrained health sector resources, it is necessary to identify the highest priority risk factor areas for studying preventive interventions. We aimed to develop a process for prioritising such risk factors for further research, in the New Zealand setting. Methods Using WHO data for high-income countries in the Western Pacific Region, the burden of disease in disability-adjusted life years associated wit…
Eric Hobsbawm
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