Falling student academic performance, in particular increasing undergraduate finance student fail rates necessitated the implementation of a new ethos of student learning. The approach adopted in this case study comprised a compulsory attendance requirement, specific study incentives and improved student access to academic staff. Students were required to attend 70% of lectures and tutorials. F...

1. Einführung „PND – Keine Fragen!?“ – Es ist wichtig, dass es diese Tagung gibt! Die modernen Biotechnologien, zu denen die PND gehört, bedürfen einer kritischen gesellschaftlichen Begleitung. Es muss immer wieder geprüft werden, ob und wie weit diese Entwicklungen tatsächlich dem Menschen und seiner Entfaltung dienen, oder diese – offen oder sublim unterminieren. Um diese Frage geht es letztl...

The aim of this study is to establish structured clusters and well-defined ontological entities (nodes) describing ethical values as both ideal and opportunity for ethical manner as perceived by thecaregiver.In this study, we use Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs) to analyse ethical values (ethos) and ethical manners in daily work with older people. Material is based on questionnaire data collecte...

This paper looks at healing performances as ethnographic expressions of local knowledge and culture embedded within the Malay psyche and gemeinschaft. As society develops and progresses, these healing performances are caught within conflicting trajectories which become compounded by the contestations of tradition, religious concerns, locality and modernity. As exemplifications of the Malay etho...