Educational professionalism is the focal point of the Scottish Standard for Chartered Teacher (CT). Published by the Scottish Government in 2002 and revised in 2009, the Chartered Teacher Standard sets forth specific national objectives for advanced teacher accomplishment beyond initial teacher certification (known in Scotland as the Standard for Full Registration), and guarantees professional ...

System (EOSDIS). Because the Committee intends to undertake extensive oversight of EOSDIS, you asked that we examine several key aspects of NASA'S system development approach, including the extent to which EOSDIS (1) will use prototyping to reduce system development costs and risks, and (2) may require technologies that are beyond the current state of the art. The report identifies weaknesses i...

This paper studies how career concerns affect an agent’s choice between a risky and a safe project when the risky project’s return depends on its quality and the

BACKGROUND It has been estimated that every year more than quarter a million health care workers exposed to HIV risky conditions in health care settings, more so in developing countries, with high incidence of HIV/AIDS and unsafe practices. Particularly, Sub-Saharan African countries share at least half of these occupational exposures to HIV risky conditions among health care workers. The aim o...

Information on risky sexual behaviour has significant policy implications in designing and implementing family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention programs. The main objective of this study was to explore the factors that determine risky sexual behaviour and the possible risk to HIV infection among the youth in Kenya. The study population consisted of 2132 sexually-active women ages (15-24) covere...

Alcohol may be used and misused for different reasons, i.e., to enhance positive affect and to cope with negative affect. These to pathways are thought to depend on two distinct and relatively stable neurobiological systems: the behavioral activation (BAS; i.e., fun seeking, drive, reward responsiveness) and behavioral inhibition (BIS) systems. This study investigates the associations of BAS an...

With the growth in use of social media, various security and privacy concerns are burgeoning. Motivated by the phenomenon of OSN use and the potentially risky behaviors it involves, the present study has two main objectives: (1) to understand the effect of individuals’ perceived risk on OSN use and risky OSN behaviors; and (2) to understand the role of social influence on OSN use and risky OSN ...

BACKGROUND Binge drinking is prevalent during adolescence and may have effects on the adult brain and behavior. The present study investigated whether adolescent intermittent ethanol exposure alters adult risky choice and prefrontal dopaminergic and forebrain cholinergic neuronal marker levels in male Wistar rats. METHODS Adolescent (postnatal day 28-53) rats were administered 5 g/kg of 25% (...

BACKGROUND Emerging findings have shown that high parental monitoring of adolescents' sexual and reproductive health (SRH) communications between parents and adolescents and good parenting styles prevent adolescents from engaging in risky sexual practices. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the associations of parental monitoring, parent-adolescent SRH communications, and parentin...