The wheelwright said, “I, your servant, observe from my own work. In making a wheel, if I go slowly, it is easy but not a solid [fit]; if I go quickly, it is toilsome and [the parts] do not go together.1 Neither too slow nor too fast, I get it with my hands and respond with my mind, but my mouth cannot speak [of it]; there is a skill I maintain in this: I cannot teach it to my son, and my son c...

The Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes took place at the turn of the eighteenth century The quarrel, or Battle of the Books, as it was referred to in England, was fought on two fronts. First was an argument over philosophical knowledge and the natural sciences: did the ancients know more than the moderns? The second debate involved literature and the arts: had the ancients perfected these are...

Reputation risk as one of the most important risks in any competitive industry and market should be considered before all the risks of the enterprise which also affects other risks. This research aims to review and manage reputation risk in the framework of enterprise risk management. Considering the importance of the subject and lack of available studies in this field, the innovation of presen...

Historically, adventure-based research and models have inadequately described the role of the instructor in the process of student learning of transferable outcomes. The purpose of this case study was to investigate the influence of instructors from the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) on learning perceived to be transferable. Qualitative data indicated students perceive instructors to...

A total of 483 hips treated by primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) were investigated to evaluate the surgical skill of the performing surgeon. Surgical trainees operated on 259 hips and instructors on 224 hips. The average age of the patients at the time of THA in the trainee and instructor group was 61.9 and 60.8 years old, respectively. The average follow-up duration was 5.1 years. The opera...