Kuzbass mining managers have certain requirements for professional skills of future engineers. Along with theoretical and practical knowledge, they expect university graduates to possess professionally important personal qualities that allow engineers work in potentially dangerous environment bear responsibility themselves their team. Dual training is a form social partnership between an educat...

BACKGROUND Over two-thirds of UK medical schools are augmenting their selection procedures for medical students by using the United Kingdom Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT), which employs tests of cognitive and non-cognitive personal qualities, but clear evidence of the tests' predictive validity is lacking. This study explores whether academic performance and professional behaviours that are imp...

Personal and equipment assistance are often used to reduce disability in daily tasks. This paper predicts assistance use, type of assistance, and efficacy (improvement with assistance) for disabilities in personal care and household management tasks. Three types of assistance are studied: Personal Only, Equipment Only, Both. Efficacy is measured by comparing unassisted and assisted degrees-of-d...

The article presents the problem of forming social activity Primary school children, structural components children: system needs and aspirations; public personal motives; value orientations attitudes; self esteem socially valuable qualities personality. Developed content, forms methods gradual formation with age-appropriate рrimary training teachers primary education by supporting children in ...

Recent studies have confirmed the importance of understanding the cognition of users and information systems (IS) professionals. These works agree that organizational cognition is far too critical to be ignored as it can impact on IS outcomes. While cognition has been considered in a variety of IS contexts, no specific methodology has dominated. A theory and method suitable to the study of cogn...

True random number generators can significantly contribute to the development of high security cryptographic schemes, such as those required for use in military applications. This article presents some the results of an innovative method for the generation of truly random number sequences, based on environmental noise measurements. The statistical properties of different noise types have been s...

To determine whether admission interviews could differentiate applicants on their personal qualities (such as integrity, empathy and commitment) 456 applicants from two medical schools were tested on the Defining Issues Test (DIT), which measures the amount of principled or post-conventional moral reasoning. No difference was found between the DIT scores of the accepted and the rejected applica...