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The present paper examines the attitudes of young physicians, medical students as well as social worker students in Romania towards euthanasia. After establishing the concept of euthanasia, the author continues by describing the situation of euthanasia in Romania. They shall present the present legislation (the new Criminal Code introduced in February 2014) and, in light of the results of a stu...

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Professor Michael Kosorok (MK in the subsequent discussion) on a fine review of the current state of semiparametric methods and inference. MK has dealt with a number of different areas in the article; from publication facts and figures in connection with impact to the scientific utility of semiparametric modeling, theoretical issues of curre...

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This study sought to find out team-work competencies needed by business education graduate employees to function effectively in business organizations. The study was a survey and carried out using 150 business executives as respondents. A 14 item questionnaire was used to gather data. Mean scores and standard deviation were used for data analysis. The study revealed amongst others that business...

Leading voices in the biological sciences have called for a transformation in graduate education leading to the PhD degree. One area commonly singled out for growth and innovation is cross-training in computational science. In 1998, the University of Tennessee (UT) founded an intercollegiate graduate program called the UT-ORNL Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology in partnership with...

Although expectations for graduate students’ writing abilities are high, their actual writing skills are often subpar (Cuthbert & Spark, 2008; Singleton-Jackson, Lumsden, & Newson, 2009), even though academic writing is considered integral to graduate education and necessary for career preparedness (e.g., Mullen, 2006; Stevens, 2005). Today’s scholars in any field must be prepared to communicat...

This Distributed Graduate Seminar (DGS) aims to synthesize current ecological information on the role that biodiversity in agricultural landscapes (agrobiodiversity) plays in providing ecosystem services. In recent years numerous studies aimed at examining the importance of agroecosystems to the conservation of biodiversity have been published. These studies focus on identifying the types of ag...

Teachers in a range of disciplines are interested in engaging their students in authentic activities that reflect the experiences of real-world practitioners. Adopting this approach requires the design and implementation of learning environments that incorporate and support such activities. This paper describes two real-life cases developed as support materials for learners undertaking a major ...

Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation • 44 East 64th Street, New York, NY 10065 • 212 486-2424 1 ontinuing education (CE) of health professionals is essential to the health of all Americans.With accelerating advances in health information and technology, physicians, nurses and other health professionals must maintain and improve their knowledge and skills throughout their careers in order to provide safe...