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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Health Literacy focuses on bringing together leaders from the federal government, foundations, health plans, associations, and private companies to address challenges facing health literacy practice and research and to identify approaches to promote health literacy in both the public and private sectors. The roundtable serves to educate the public, press, and policy makers regarding the issues of health literacy, sponsoring workshops to discuss approaches to resolve health literacy challenges. It also builds partnerships to move the field of health literacy forward by translating research findings into practical strategies for implementation. The...
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Mathematics and democracy: the case for quantitative literacy.
The book compiles all important researches on the versatile and wide subject of engineering and management using Fuzzy Inference System (FIS). The book talks about the theoretical approaches of FIS, deals with the functions of FIS in management related issues, FIS utilization in varied power system engineering issues and focuses on the FIS application to system making and restraining issues. Lastly, it portrays FIS applications to civil engineering problems.
Shamos argues that a meaningful scientific literacy cannot be achieved in the first place, and the attempt is a misuse of human resources on a grand scale. He is skeptical about forecasts of "critical shortfalls in scientific manpower" and about the motives behind crash programs to get more young people into the science pipeline.
This book presents a collection of papers written by educators and researchers. The topics include the analysis of social science textbooks, the teacher image in newspapers, the relationship between self-efficacy and cognitive level and the role of organizational silence on the loneliness of academics in work life.