Taijiquan is quintessence of Chinese traditional martial arts culture, is a treasure in Chinese culture, having developed in China for several hundred years, and is a kind of sports events that can build one’s body and be beneficial to vital energy as well as prolong life. As quintessence of China’s martial arts, Taijiquan development status in China still has large room to develop. The paper m...

Title of Document: SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT THROUGH THE REMOVAL OF PROJECTLEVEL KNOWLEDGE FLOW OBSTACLES: THE PERCEPTIONS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERS. Susan Marie Mitchell, Ph.D., 2012 Directed By: Dr. Carolyn B. Seaman, Information Systems Department Uncontrollable costs, schedule overruns, and poor end product quality continue to plague the software engineering field. Innovations formulated wit...

since any kind of training aims at educating professionals, this research tries to merge theoretical and practical bases of translation training and remove any obstacles in different educational programs existing in the fields of translation studies. translation training is not confined to language teaching, although mastering both source and target languages will make the translators more succ...

To increase the understanding of difficulties in promoting healthy habits to parents, we explore barriers in health-care provision. The aim of this study is to describe nurses' perceived barriers when discussing with parents regarding healthy food habits, physical activity and their child's body weight. A mixed method approach was chosen. Nurses (n = 76) working at 29 different Child Health Car...

background the need for competence training and development in health management and leadership workforces has been emphasised. however, evidence of the outcomes and impact of such training and development has not been systematically assessed. the aim of this review is to synthesise the available evidence of the outcomes and impact of training and development in relation to the competence of he...

evaluation of urmia medical university faculty member views about research obstacles r salem safy ,ma bn ashraf rezaei ,?bsc r sadatian , msc z moshirie , msc n sheikhy , a baniadam , msc received: 7april, 2009 accepted: 27 july, 2009 abstract background & aims: identifying research obstacles, assessment of faculty members’ ability in research skills and faculty members’ satisfaction of researc...

Coursebooks are normally written to contain information, instruction, exposure, and activities that learn- ers at a particular level need to enhance their communicative competence in the target language. Howev- er, many global course books make attempts to include content, topics, and texts that do not disadvantage any learner around the world. That is why global course books normally do ...

In this paper, we examine barriers to the integration of refugee doctors and nurses in Canada and the United Kingdom. Key obstacles impeding the integration of internationally trained health professionals are well documented, but less attention has been paid to the integration of refugee health professionals, particularly in Canada. Based on documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews w...