evaluation of urmia medical university faculty member views about research obstacles r salem safy ,ma bn ashraf rezaei ,?bsc r sadatian , msc z moshirie , msc n sheikhy , a baniadam , msc received: 7april, 2009 accepted: 27 july, 2009 abstract background & aims: identifying research obstacles, assessment of faculty members’ ability in research skills and faculty members’ satisfaction of researc...

Veterinary Professional Life (VPL) is a whole-of-course stream of interventions recently introduced to the Murdoch University veterinary curriculum, intended to raise the profile of, and student outcomes in, professional skills and attributes important to success in veterinary practice. These include not only veterinary-specific professional attributes (e.g. ethics, business, diagnostic skills)...

Are you one of a growing number of medical educators uncomfortable using the term “noncognitive” to describe a cluster of behavioural characteristics, personal attributes and interpersonal skills used for admissions? We are. Do you believe that ethical reasoning, situational judgments, complex communication skills, critical thinking, and even empathy and respect for all people are learned skill...

OBJECTIVE To test whether higher levels of general competence are linked to more frequent use of refusal assertiveness that is in turn related to less subsequent smoking among inner city adolescents. METHODS Longitudinal study conducted during three year middle school or junior high school period. A sample of 1459 students attending 22 middle (ages 11-14 years) and junior high (ages 12-15 yea...

This paper examines the role of interviewers’ experience, attitudes, personality traits and inter-personal skills in determining survey co-operation. We take the perspective that these characteristics influence interviewers’ behaviour and hence influence the doorstep interaction between interviewer and sample member. Previous studies of the association between doorstep behaviour and co-operatio...

BACKGROUND Children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) demonstrate neurobehavioral impairments that affect function and participation. Adaptive behavior deficits have been documented; however, specific functional profiles are less well described. PURPOSE This study compared caregiver-reported adaptive and maladaptive behaviors between a clinic-referred sample of 25 five- through eig...

This paper addresses whether students can e-learn teamworking skills when most are logged on to the Internet without direct personal interactions. We give examples of how the Open University achieves this and argue both that teamwork skills can be learned through electronic interactions and that robotics can be a particularly effective focus for that experience.

This study examined self-perceived strengths among 116 people who were homeless. Those who had experienced a longer period of current homelessness tended to report fewer personal strengths (r = -0.23). Nonetheless, in spite of their marginalized position in society, the vast majority of participants (114 out of 116) perceived personal strengths. A prior diagnosis with mental illness was not ass...

Employment specialists play a pivotal role in assisting youth and adults with disabilities find and retain jobs. This requires a unique combination of skills, competencies and personal attributes. While the fields of career counseling, vocational rehabilitation and special education transition have documented the ideal skills sets needed to achieve desired outcomes, the authors characterize the...

The purpose of this essay is to investigate the privacy concerns of Chinese, and to develop relevant protective measures. The groups are divided into two parts by gender and six parts by ages to analyze the different gender and different age groups of privacy concerns. The significance of this study is protecting personal data property. The data of personal information after finishing processin...