A Abstract. Objective and Participants: A sample of 231 students attending a private liberal arts university in central Alberta, Canada, completed a 5-day time diary and a 71-item questionnaire assessing the influence of personal, cognitive, and attitudinal factors on success. Methods: The authors used 3 success measures: cumulative grade point average (GPA), Personal Success—each participant’s...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that were associated with cabinet appointment in the Howard Government 1996 – 2007. Broadly, the factors that are cited as important in cabinet appointment in general fall into two categories: the representational and the personal. The representational factors are those that are associated related to an individual’s role as a “representative”....

190 J Pak Med Assoc Madam, Communication and Interpersonal Skills (CIPS) comprise an integral component of medical professionalism.1-4 Effective CIPS augment quality health care delivery, patient satisfaction, outcomes and physician's confidence.1-3,5 Quite understandably, regulatory bodies such as Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (USA), General Medical Council (UK) and Coll...

Potentialities of skills in design are intriguing. Skills open up new perceptions of the world, transform human understanding and engagement with the world itself. Our explorations suggest that leveraging existing designer's skills and training for new skills might remarkably contribute in designing for richness of meaning. We developed several skills-based techniques and validated them through...