General Practice, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA. Justin J Beilby, MD, FRACGP, Professor, and Head of Department. Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, NSW. Nicholas J Glasgow, MD, FRACGP, FAChPM, Professor, and Director. Illawarra and Shoalhaven Medical Teaching Program, Wollongong, NSW. H John Fardy, DRCOG, FRACGP, Project Manager, ...

This article develops a quality notion that is complementary to the system notion. As a major consequence, it becomes clear why quality can be measured only to a certain extend based on the issues of validity and incompleteness. First, there is an inherent conflict between the applicability and validity of quality measures and second, quality considerations almost always refer to high-dimension...

The aim of this article is to discuss the place and role intercultural encounter (IE) in communication education, including foreign language teaching. Firstly, I present IE as a communicative event define it using terms developed by ethnographers speech (communication). Secondly, concepts contained Common European Framework Reference for Languages. Companion Volume with New Descriptors (CEFR 20...

The term vasculitis encompasses a number of distinct clinicopathologic disease entities, each of which is characterized pathologically by cellular inflammation and destruction of the blood vessel wall, and clinically by the types and locations of the affected vessels. While multiple classification schemes have been proposed to categorize and simplify the approach to these diseases, ultimately t...

This paper studies …rms’decisions to form partnerships to develop new projects and the reputation implications of such decisions. Speci…cally, we analyze how …rms’qualities, initial reputations and participation levels a¤ect the evolution of …rms’reputations and incentives to form partnerships. We consider both the case where participation levels are exogenous and that where they are endogenous...

This article discusses the primary qualities of a doctoral dissertation proposal and how those qualities relate to the qualities of a dissertation and to the nature of a research university. Typical parts of a proposal are discussed—problem, significance, literature review, theoretical perspective, questions, methods, and ethics—and reasons are given for the role that each part plays in the dev...