Objectives Traditionally, teaching is part of a clinician's job. Some practitioners recognize the teaching activity as rewarding. This study explored the ways clinical practitioners experience their journey from clinicians to medical teachers, analyzing their prior experiences of teaching and learning, conceptions of good teaching and learning, perceptions of learning environments, and finally,...

A student’s view of higher education is often talked about as ‘transformative’ and as a ‘journey’ or ‘pathway’. The student experience of university is time-bound, covering a clearly specified duration. From a learner’s perspective the Higher Education (HE) journey begins at induction and ends at graduation. Through discrete and highly personal steps students move from one state, fresher, to an...

Some species of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) suborder are great agricultural importance, mainly as pests, and their control is often necessary. The use Bacillus thuringiensis, an entomopathogenic bacterium normally extracted from soil used in biological control, alternative to chemical these insects. Mortality tests must be carried out order select determine a viable toxic strain, but currently ...

The neural mechanisms that integrate new episodes with established memories are unknown. When rats explore an environment, CA1 cells fire in place fields that indicate locations. In goal-directed spatial memory tasks, some place fields differentiate behavioral histories ("journey-dependent" place fields) while others do not ("journey-independent" place fields). To investigate how these signals ...

Werner Sichel Public Lecture on the Economics of Risk, presented at Western Michigan University on November 7, 2001 and co-sponsored by the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. I would like to thank Ted Groves, Donald Meyer and Joel Sobel for helpful comments. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9870894. All opinions and error...

Acomparison of China and India is both exciting and challenging, and should ideally lead to a serious consideration of various policy implications. In this context, our conference today marks the beginning of a long journey. In my remarks, I will try to compare the banking sectors in China and India, largely focusing on structure and robustness as well as the effectiveness of the banking superv...

We investigate the Treasury bill (T-bill) market for volatility effects, and especially any volatility introduced by the T-bill auction process. We use daily T-bill yields for on-therun 13-, 26-, and 52-week T-bills from January 1983 through December 2000. We find that T-bill volatility is not constant across a run, hence is not consistent with the Treasury's auction process intent of a stable ...

When I first started doing research in the area of college and university teaching about 35 years ago, it was like being a voice in the wilderness. But I discovered two other voices in the same wilderness doing the same type of research, namely Chris Knapper and Bill McKeachie. I have benefited greatly from my contacts with both of them over the years, and I have also been lucky enough to have ...

Scripting custom content for computer role-playing games requires the designer to tell a story by writing small fragments of computer code distributed among the characters, props, and locations of the game world. The main challenge of these games is to create believable motivations and behaviors for the dozens or even hundreds of characters and rooms with which the player may interact. We prese...