March 2001 PACE, Vol. 24 Introduction Industry employed allied professionals (IEAPs) have traditionally played an important role providing technical assistance to physicians and their clinically employed allied professionals (CEAPs) during pacemaker/ICD implantation, programming, troubleshooting, and follow-up. The IEAPs include directly employed or contracted manufacturer representatives, fiel...

Social-psychological research on gendered persistence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields is dominated by two explanations: women leave because they perceive their future family plans to be at odds with the demands of STEM careers, and women’s low self-assessment of their skills in the intellectual tasks of STEM, net of their performance, leads to their attrition. ...

Recent developments in public health policy have high-lighted the central role of the clinical work force in the success of policy implementation, and thus the need for effective human resource policies. Given the high level of professionalism in health services, a number of special issues arise, including the organizational structures that best support professional work. Experiences from globa...

Robots in industry During the last two decades, robots have gone from exotic to commonplace in the manufacturing industries. As companies strive to gain competitive advantage, mechanization of repetitive tasks has been a primary means of increasing productivity and reducing cost. The impact of robotization is now affecting the world economy [1]. While not the first to develop robotics, Japan ha...

OBJECTIVES The research was aimed at searching for diversified models of female teachers' functioning that could be determined by their individual traits, psychological variables, and professional adaptation factors. MATERIAL AND METHODS Three hundred eleven female teachers aged from 26 to 60 were examined. The following tools were used in the research: The Hope Scale, NEO-FFI Inventory, IPSA...

Federal health privacy regulations, commonly known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations, came into effect in April 2003. Many clinicians and institutions have relied on consultants and risk managers to tell them how to implement these regulations. Much of the controversy and confusion over the HIPAA regulations concern so-called incidental disclosures. ...

The training of future health professionals should be aimed at the acquisition of knowledge, attitudes, and practices that will enable them to promote health, prevent diseases, and address the most prevalent conditions in their country. The Brazilian National Curriculum Guidelines for healthcare courses, published in late 2001, recommend that " the most common health care needs be at the core o...