for the purpose of investigating the effects of motivational, cognitive, intellectural and personality factors on the learning abiltiy and educational function of students, the scl-90-r and educational status questionnaire were administered to 1102 students of science, engineering, fine arts, and letters and humanition faculties of tehran university.findings indicated a significant difference b...

Princeton Review for July 1879, entitled The Organ of Mind. Both title and arguments are substantially the same as Dr. Bastian's; they both assert that the intellectual and moral faculties can be located in the brain, whilst the facts which they adduce are insufficient even to determine the seats of motion and sensation. Is it, then, fair to the public that crude and dangerous theories, calcula...

Work in machine ethics has thus far been focused on giving autonomous agents the ability to select morally-correct behaviors given well-formed moral problems. While this is a necessary component to enable an agent to comport to standards of moral behavior, it is not sufficient. In this paper, we present a simple task-domain to illustrate this point. We show that even in simple domains, the pote...

Objective: After adoption of the National Competency-based Learning Objectives Catalogue in Medicine [Nationaler Kompetenzbasierter Lernzielkatalog Medizin, NKLM], the German medical faculties are asked to test the learning obejctives recorded in it and evaluate them critically. The faculties require curricular transparency for competence-oriented transition of present curricula, which is best ...

BACKGROUND In 2009, palliative medicine became an integrated and compulsory part of undergraduate training in Germany by legislation. After a transitional period, all medical faculties were required to provide adequate teaching with an according examination and certification procedure. In parallel, we conducted bi-annual surveys on all medical faculties in Germany to examine for potential discr...