The principle that supervising and managing animals affects farm animal welfare is widely recognised within the livestock industries. However,the manner in which the stockperson affects animal welfare, both directly and indirectly, is probably not fully appreciated. Together with the opportunity to perform their tasks well, stockpeople require a range of well-developed husbandry skills and know...

this brief discusses the policy implications of a research study commissioned by health workforce australia (hwa) within its health workforce innovation and reform work program. the project explored conceptually complex and operationally problematic concepts related to developing a whole-of-workforce competency-based education and training and competency-based career framework for the australia...

Introduction: Nursing students require highly specialized competencies to accurately determine patients' states and to predict and cope with problems that may occur during nursing care. This study explores the definition, domains, and levels of nursing students' competency. Methods: This study was a systematic review of nursing students’ competencies in E...

Enhancers are cis-acting DNA elements that play critical roles in distal regulation of gene expression. Identifying enhancers is an important step for understanding distinct gene expression programs that may reflect normal and pathogenic cellular conditions. Experimental identification of enhancers is constrained by the set of conditions used in the experiment. This requires multiple experiment...

Background/Study aim The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) recommends that trainees complete 150 endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) procedures before assessing competency. However, this recommendation is largely based on limited evidence and expert opinion. With new evidence suggesting that this historical threshold is underestimating training requirements, we evaluated the learni...

Reuse of software components can improve software quality and productivity significantly. This paper mainly concentrates on our approach to reuse assessment, which is a process of identifying and assessing the characteristics of a reusable component based on a set of well-defined reuse guidelines. This paper also proposes a scheme for measuring reuse potential. These techniques have been succes...

Competency in the use of ICT is enjoying renewed attention in the research and practice, but there may be a notable lack of a deeper theoretical view in this area of interest. This paper presents a grounded theory that revolves around three core elements namely: e-Competency Sets, e-Competency Acquisition, and Triggers. It is proposed that the practitioner possesses an eCompetency Set, consisti...

The objective of the present article was to encounter empirical evidence use that companies make empathetic competency and participative design for relationship development with their interest groups. Empirical comparison occurred by way a case study in Colombian family business group composed three companies. A mixed research applied, using questionnaire measure empathy, as an in-depth intervi...