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The demand for well-educated and skilled healthcare providers has never been greater. As a result, enrollment is expanding in academic settings that prepare advanced practice nurses for primary care and acute care roles. The growth in programs has led to a corresponding increased demand for clinical mentors and preceptors. The preceptors and sites must meet standards established by the academic...

Genomics research presents technical, computational, and analytical challenges that are well recognized. Less recognized are the complex sociological, psychological, cultural, and political challenges that arise when genomics research takes place within a large, decentralized academic institution. In this paper, we describe a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)—MaPSeq—that was conceptualized an...

This study examined the relationship between academic integration and self-efficacy with regard to institution types and students’ majors among IM (Information Management) and CS (Computer Science) students. A Taiwanese National survey database was used to achieve the research objective. MANOVA was used to analyze the interaction effects between academic integration and self-efficacy. The indep...

As a service organization, for an academic institution, knowledge sharing is a critical process that needed to be done and developed always in order to achieve sustainable advantage, emphasizing its role as center of excellence. The research objection was to explore the relationship between the three constructs: Knowledge Sharing, Absorptive Capacity and Channel Richness. The conceptual and str...

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This paper looks at the background and history of plagiarism and self plagiarism, reviews aspects of academic self plagiarism from the academic, the institution and publisher’s point of view and provides a handy check-list of the current definitions and requirements.

Placement in prestigious research institutions for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) PhD recipients is generally considered to be optimal. Yet some doctoral recipients are not interested in intensive research careers and instead seek alternative careers, outside but also within academe (for example teaching positions in Liberal Arts Schools). Recent attention to non-acade...