North American physicians emerge from their medical training with a wide array of professional beliefs and values. Many are thoughtful and introspective. Many are devoted to patients' welfare. Some bring to their work a broad view of social responsibility. Nonetheless, the authors contend that North American medical education favors an explicit commitment to traditional values of doctoring-empa...

Many people believe that language teaching is a neutral practice. However, this belief is not without its own opponents. To many scholars, teaching languages cannot be devoid of teaching cultural values of the target language, which tacitly aims at denigrating cultural values of the community of the learners who are learning it. The ultimate purpose of such cultural oppression, according to the...

Drawing on research areas such as estimation, innumeracy, attitude, scientific conceptual change, social cognition, and judgment and decision making, we offer results from a paradigm we call Numerically-Driven Inferencing (Ranney, Cheng, Nelson, & Garcia de Osuna, 2001). NDI includes observing the effects of presenting critical, germane, and credible base rates that are relevant to social polic...

Qualitative research methods were used to explore the factors that informed general and adapted physical education teachers' coteaching practices within an inclusive high school physical education program. Two physical education teachers and one adapted physical education teacher were observed over a 16-week period. Interviews, field notes, and documents were collected and a constant comparativ...

OBJECTIVE To understand belief in a specific scientific claim by studying the pattern of citations among papers stating it. DESIGN A complete citation network was constructed from all PubMed indexed English literature papers addressing the belief that beta amyloid, a protein accumulated in the brain in Alzheimer's disease, is produced by and injures skeletal muscle of patients with inclusion ...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing knowledge sharing among the personnel of agricultural extension and education organization in the iranian ministry of jihad-e agriculture. a survey method was employed for the study, and 110 personnel randomly selected as a sample out of 140 who were busy working in the organization. data was collected through a questionn...

This paper presents a novel model of interaction patterns between individual agents in dynamic social networks. A simulation was developed implementing the directed diffusion protocol to propagate beliefs through a social network. Belief propagation through a social network is modeled as packet propagation through a wireless sensor network using the directed diffusion protocol. This data propag...