Using the example of trusses the paper demonstrates the strong influence of a scientific view on structures and structural concepts arising at the beginning of the 19 century in Western Europe. By then structures have been considered as assembled constructs arranged according to utilization and boundary conditions. In most cases, such structures were designed and built based on samples, which h...

The connection between poverty and lack of education seems entirely self-evident, yet real progress in overcoming the obstacles to education and economic affluence has eluded governments and social activists worldwide for decade. This document intends to interrogate how can further education and training enhance skills development initiatives in combating poverty in the South African situation....

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, a sample of nearly 3,924 students at 28 of the most selective college and universities in the United States, this paper tests hypotheses about religion, academic performance, and satisfaction at college. Two measures of religiosity— attending religious services every week or more and a 1 to 10 scale of observance of one’s religious t...

In part one of this practitioner packet, we reviewed how colleges seeking to reduce complexity in the student experience can gather information through multiple methods and from multiple groups of college stakeholders in order to identify areas that need improvement. In this part, we discuss how colleges can use the collected data to devise and implement solutions to identified problems. We use...

The purpose of this study is to explore the types of problem students that clinical teachers encounter in clinical settings. A questionnaire developed by the Association of American Medical Colleges that lists a variety of types of problem students was completed by 466 clinicians at the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSOM) and 98 Malaysian clinicians from Universiti Kebangsaan Ma...

The creation of The American Phytopathological Society (APS) in 1908 was a response to the developing professionalism in the biological and agricultural sciences in the United States between 1880 and 1920. During this period, a new generation of plant pathologists emerged in the United States Department of Agriculture, agricultural colleges, and state agricultural experiment stations with a met...

with the concluding sentence of the preface: "The field is indeed a most fascinating one, and I believe a course of this character must be given in all our colleges and universities if we are to be fair to our students." The reviewer believes that departments of mathematics, where they have competent instructors, should take the lead in organizing such courses. This book could well furnish a pa...

Rising college enrollment over the last quarter century has not been met with a proportional increase in college completion. Comparing the high school classes of 1972 and 1992, we show declines in college completion rates have been most pronounced for men who first enroll in less selective public universities and community colleges. We decompose the decline into the components due to changes in...

No doubt there are certain qualified men from the continent whose advice and treatment only few could seek. There are also side by side unqualified men in the true sense who profess to be dentists and many of them are really doing more harm than good. Tropical schools are being opened in India, and I think early opening up of dental colleges will remove the longfelt need. At least one, if not m...