We report the findings at follow-up in 67 consecutive children with central nervous system tumors treated over a 5-year-period at a single institution. The diagnoses were supratentorial astrocytoma ...(n = 12), cerebellar astrocytoma (n = 10), ependymoma (n = 9), medulloblastoma (n = 9), brain stem glioma (n = 6), optic pathway glioma (n = 5), and others (n = 16). The survival rates were 83% for supratentorial astrocytomas at a median of 46.5 months, 90% for cerebellar astrocytomas and 55% for ependymomas at 40 months, respectively, 55% for medulloblastomas at 22 months, 33% for brain stem gliomas at 23 months, and 80% for optic pathway gliomas at 49 months. With regard to neurological sequelae, 13 patients were treated for epilepsy, 13 patients had mild to moderate neurological deficits, and 4 patients were severely disabled. Seventeen of 37 tested patients performed below average on formal neuropsychometric testing, one-fourth attended special education courses, and at least one-fourth suffered from behavioral and adjustment problems.
The well-known fact of suicides of psychiatric inpatients during psychiatric hospital treatment is discussed according to national and international suicide data. In our Baden-Württemberg (Germany) ...Psychiatric Inpatient Suicide Study an increase in suicide and suicide rates from 1970 to 1993 can be shown with an mostly impressive increase in the 1970s and a plateau formation in the 1980s and constant figures in the 1990s. The group of 585 suicides (59% men, 41% women) is composed of: 26% primarily depressives, 53% schizophrenics (ICD-9); where the following features were notable presuicidal syndrome with depressive mood (68%). insight into illness (63%). feelings of suffering (64%), failure (57%), hopelessness (54%) and helplessness (54%).
Welcome to Makerland Chua, Mel; Dziallas, Sebastian; Ellis, Heidi J.C. ...
Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education,
02/2012
Conference Proceeding
Participating in free and open source (FOSS) software communities provides students with authentic learning while supplying instructors with a wide variety of educational opportunities including ...coding, testing, documentation, professionalism and more. However, instructors may be unfamiliar with how FOSS communities work and therefore may be reluctant to involve students in such communities. This workshop is a subset of material used in Red Hat's Professors' Open Source Summer Experience (http://communityleadershipteam.org/posse) workshop, now in its third year of successfully providing a ramp to FOSS projects for instructors. These instructors have demonstrated success in involving their students in FOSS communities where students have contributed code, interface design, and more. Intended audience: Computing educators at the college or high school level interested in involving students in open source software projects in any capacity (testing, coding, documentation, design, project management, observational shadowing of a large-scale project, etc). The workshop may also be of interest to pre-high school computing educators and members of the open source community. No experience with open source communities or contribution is necessary.
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