In the ranking of most popular study subjects among students, embryology is often near the bottom. In exams, the (admittedly) rare questions on the field can allow the student to shine by knowing only a limited number of facts, and, on a normal day in the clinic, symptoms and malformations stemming from this developmental period are hardly uncommon so it is indeed worthwhile looking into the de...

These reflections aim to increase awareness of the contradictions inherent in the definition of sport and its relation to health and education. Taking the doping issue as a point of departure, we seek to open a general debate regarding the impact of the sports performance industry on public health. Illegal doping practices lead to the health insecurity of many professional and aspiring athletes...

tephen Van Evera’s book revises half of a Žfteen-year-old dissertation that must be among the most cited in history. This volume is a major entry in academic security studies, and for some time it will stand beside only a few other modern works on causes of war that aspiring international relations theorists are expected to digest. Given that political science syllabi seldom assign works more t...

When a young Dr Tom Laughlin of Moncton, NB, was aspiring to be a physician, there were fewer than 1000 entries in the Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties. According to Health Canada, there are now more than 22 000 pharmaceutical products, 42 000 natural health products, and 50 000 medical devices on the market.1 Along with surgery, surely the advances in drug treatments for so many h...

Proper evaluation of the user experience of recommender systems requires conducting user experiments. This chapter is a guideline for students and researchers aspiring to conduct user experiments with their recommender systems. It first covers the theory of user-centric evaluation of recommender systems, and gives an overview of recommender system aspects to evaluate. It then provides a detaile...

Applied sport psychologists tend to begin their consulting relationships with national teams having formalized skills, and often, limited contextual and sport- specific understanding. The present report overviews the first four years of a long-term consulting relationship one practitioner developed with the Canadian National Boxing Team. From the vantage of an applied sport psychology consultan...

Clinician Educators (CE) have numerous responsibilities in different professional domains, including clinical, education, research, and administration. Many CEs face tensions trying to manage these often competing professional responsibilities and achieve "work-work balance." Rich discussions of techniques for work-work balance amongst CEs at a medical education conference inspired the authors ...

This is a crucial period for aspiring dental surgeons. There are serious dearth in job opportunities for the economically weaker sections. We appeal to all respected teachers for even better training and education of all undergraduates and post graduates. Better education leads to better researchers. Conservative Dentistry being the bread and butter for all general practitioners and specialist ...

A primary mission of institutions of higher learning is the generation and dissemination of knowledge. The low acceptance rates at the leading research journals in marketing, typically in the single digits to low teens, suggests the need to increase the quality of the research manuscripts produced. This article presents a set of guidelines for researchers aspiring to do scholarly research in ma...

The professional Electronic Leadership Portfolio (ELP) is an effective method for the promotion of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the educational arena, both as a model for aspiring leaders and as a model for the necessary development of skills in teachers. Furthermore, the ELP provides a framework for future measurement of leadership skills and development as well as providi...