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Writers Talk Featuring Jay Douglas
No full textJay Douglas, author of Everything You Need to Write Great Essays, You Can Learn from Watching Movies, talks about how essays can be written like Hollywood cinema.The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/cstw12/WT_WCRS_08-27-11_JayDouglas.mp3Ohio State University. Center for the Study and Teaching of Writin
Douglas College Human Anatomy & Physiology I
No full textThis textbook is a project under development by our Biology faculty to ultimately provide students with all the factual information they need to succeed in the BIOL 1103 and BIOL 1109 courses at Douglas College in BC, Canada. The text focuses on directly addressing the Course Objectives defined for the 2 courses covering the most important concepts and aiming to minimize distracting students with more minor details.
The development choices for this textbook were made with the guidance of hundreds of faculty who are deeply involved in teaching this course. These choices led to innovations in art, terminology, career orientation, practical applications, and multimedia-based learning, all with a goal of increasing relevance to students. We strove to make the discipline meaningful and memorable to students, so that they can draw from it a working knowledge that will enrich their future studies.
Readers should be aware that the information herein is subject to change at any time as corrections, additions, or other important modifications are made. Only the most recent version will be considered to be complete and correct.
The material herein is drawn largely from the OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology textbook, also freely and perpetually available online at http://cnx.org/content/col11496/latest/. Chapter and section numbers have been left as they were in the version of the OpenStax A&P textbook from which they are drawn; some sections have been removed, and others have had some material added, to correspond with the curriculum used at Douglas College.publishe
A multilevel analysis of the effects of rurality and social deprivation on premature limiting long term illness
No full textSTUDY OBJECTIVE---To examine the geographical variation in self perceived morbidity in the south west of England, and assess the associations with rurality and social deprivation.DESIGN---A geographically based cross sectional study using 1991 census data on premature Limiting Long Term Illness (LLTI). The urban-rural and intra-rural variation in standardised premature LLTI ratios is described, and correlation and regression analyses explore how well this is explained by generic deprivation indices. Multilevel Poisson modelling investigates whether Customised Deprivation Profiles (CDPs) and area characteristics improve upon the generic indices.SETTING---Nine counties in the south west of EnglandPARTICIPANTS---The population of the south west enumerated in the 1991 census.MAIN RESULTS---Intra-rural variation is apparent, with higher rates of premature LLTI in remoter areas. Together with high rates in urban areas and lower rates in the semi-rural areas this indicates the existence of a U shaped relation with rurality. The generic deprivation indices have strong positive relations with premature LLTI in urban areas, but these are a lot weaker in semi-rural and rural locations. CDPs improve upon the generic indices, especially in the rural settings. A substantial reduction in unexplained variation in rural areas is seen after controlling for the level of local isolation, with higher isolation, at the wider geographical scale, being related to higher levels of LLTI.CONCLUSIONS---This study highlights the need to treat rural areas as heterogeneous, although this has not been the tendency in health research. Generic deprivation indices are unlikely to be a true reflection of levels of deprivation in rural environments. The importance of CDPs that are specific to the area type and health outcome is emphasised. The significance of physical isolation suggests that accessibility to public and health services may be an important issue, and requires further research
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