In a grounded theory study examining the process of precepting an unsafe student, it was found that preceptors assigned passing grades to students who in fact should not have passed. Although preceptors perceived their role as gatekeepers for the profession, by not assigning failing grades to students who should not have passed a course, essentially they were abdicating their responsibility. In...

These sorts of questions, despite their many embedded definitional, philosophical and pragmatic problems, are commanding urgent attention in educational discourses and research policies now circulating in the UK and Europe, Canada and the US, Australia and other parts of the world. This attention has been translated into powerful material exercises that shape what is considered to be worthwhile...

Today’s companies face increased pressure regarding compliance to legal obligations. Regulations for the financial sector such as Basel II and III, Solvency II, or the Sarbanes-Oxley-Act explicitly demand various requirements. Many of those requirements address the governance and management of information assets, such as data. Companies need to report and track their information architecture, a...

According to the accountability principle a person’s fair allocation takes into account the input-relevant variables she can influence, like effort, but not the variables she cannot influence, like a randomly assigned exogenous factor. This study is based on a real effort-task experiment, where the exogenous influence is twofold: it comes either as a production factor or as a bonus. We confirm ...

We study packet transport on scale-free networks with N nodes. At each time step, pN packets are created in the system and sent to randomly selected targets. We first review previous results on the jamming transition occurring at the critical point pc and models to enhance the transport efficiency. Next, we introduce a priority-based protocol and study the packet transport based on it. We consi...

BACKGROUND In countries such as Cyprus the financial crisis and the recession have severely affected the funding and priority setting of the health care system. There is evidence highlighting the importance of population' preferences in designing priorities for health care settings. Although public preferences have been thorough analysed in many countries, there is a research gap in terms of si...

There has been the impression amongst many observers that discussion of a grant application has little practical impact on the final priority scores. Rather the final score is largely dictated by the range of preliminary scores given by the assigned reviewers. The implication is that the preliminary and final scores are the same and the discussion has little impact. The purpose of this examinat...

BACKGROUND In Sweden three key criteria are used for priority setting: severity of the health condition; patient benefit; and cost-effectiveness. They are derived from the ethical principles established by the Swedish parliament 1997 but have been used only to a limited extent in primary care. The aim of this study was to describe and analyse: 1) GPs', nurses', and patients' prioritising in rou...

CONTEXT An association with excellence should be reserved for educational institutions which verify that their actions make a difference to people's well-being. The graduates they produce should not only possess all of the competencies desirable to improve the health of citizens and society, but should also use them in their professional practice. Four principles enunciated by the World Health ...

Energy consumption becomes a primary concern in a Wireless Sensor Network. In this paper, we study the tradeoff between energy saving and data gathering latency in mobile data gathering by exploring a local data aggregation and the moving length of the SensorCar .It has different layer frameworks for mobile data collection in wireless sensor networks, which includes the load balanced clustering...