INTRODUCTION Recently, an important literature data has reported that medical students experience stress more than students in other disciplines. In contrast, there is a significant shortage of the stress impact on the academic performance. The primary purpose of our study was to determine the prevalence of stress among Casablanca Medical students and to investigate if there is an association b...

This article is a contribution to the study of strategic competence in interpreting. After a brief overview of the main contributions dealing with the concept of strategies and problems in interpreting, the article presents a pilot study which analyses the interpreting problems encountered by two groups of students at two different stages of training and the strategies they apply. It details an...

Internet and IT have re-shaped the strategy logic of contemporary organizations. The new logic emphasizes business opportunity leveraging through constantly evolving entrepreneurial actions. The required business capabilities underlying such strategic logic, including organizational agility and IT competence, have also to be built and co-evolved. Based on Sambamurthy et al. [1] conceptual frame...

This study is based on the resource-based view and social network theory to examine what is the most important factor to affect the sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) of firms in LED industry. We list 31 items of SCAs according to Aaker (1989) for LED industry elites to rank top ten as our measure variables. Then, extract two patterns of SCAs from these ten items and label them the interna...

Unravelling the complex process of acquiring Translator Competence (TC) is a considerable challenge. Whilst TC has been considered fundamental to translator training, research, and training have often limited theoretical reflections, without including empirical input. In this proposal, we will try fill gap in studies that performed date on analysis its acquisition real teaching practice. We off...

This article describes the concept of strategic competence, its essence and types. Information is provided on educational, fundamental, communicative, metacognitive, cognitive, social strategies in teaching foreign languages.

This research addresses the problem of what to consider as competence in research and development (R&D) and how does it change in contractual projects. Two cases are investigated, so called fault diagnosis systems and code generation methods and tools. They involve the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) as a supplier and several companies as customers. Projects established by these part...

Based on the interactional translation model, this paper discusses role of translator’s competence in success for business. Via complex analysis translations advertising texts as discourse acts that are pragmatically oriented and relatively uniform their aims, authors establish an extralingual criterion measuring quality – ability to satisfy same cognitive/communicative needs exert influence so...