Christian Rupp has been appointed Federal Executive Secretary of EGovernment in May of 2003. At that point of time a new E-Government Platform was introduced. He reports on the current developments of E-Democracy in Austria. A new-networked economy and a knowledge-based information society have emerged in our midst. The way people live, learn, work and relate to each other is being unalterably ...

Evidence • Largest cohort study: 402 260 people in the United States, aged 50 to 71 years, followed for 14 years.1 -Increased coffee consumption was associated with increased mortality, but results were confounded by smoking, inactivity, alcohol consumption, and poor diet. -After adjusting for confounders, coffee drinkers (compared with nondrinkers) had a significant (P < .001) decrease in over...

Software games are very popular among children and adolescents and thus they have often been used in educational software research projects to increase motivation of students. However, before educational software games are designed to be targeted to real classroom students there are many questions to be answered concerning the scope of motivation and attractiveness of these games. This paper in...

Background: Social responsiveness of the curriculum is aimed at directing all medical education activities to the training of physicians able to meet the health needs of the target community. Since medical education has moved towards a community-centered and community-based approach, significant attention has been paid to the concept of social responsiveness of medical education. Therefore, the...

Purpose: The aim of the research is to diagnose level awareness human resources in organization, sample, contents strategic thinking, and indicate extent which researched organization possesses thinking invests it work realistically. Theoretical framework: theoretical framework represented by highlighting problem developing hypotheses that are temporary solutions problem. In order obtain result...

Background and Objectives: A career anchors consists of jobs that a person holds in order to achieve a professional goal. Career anchors development management results in job satisfaction, professional commitment, and higher effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to determine different dimensions of career anchors among in the personnel of vice-chancellor offices of Shiraz University of M...