The purpose of this literature review is to identify and address major themes in the distance education literature, particularly as they relate to interactive television (ITV) and student satisfaction. Major themes include satisfaction based on site-type, previous research biases, faculty-student interaction, characteristics of satisfied learners, qualitative differences in satisfaction, satisf...

Objective: Self-control and grit have become two of the most important variables that explain success in different aspects of people's daily life (Duckworth and Gross, 2014). Self-control promotes delayed gratification and directly influences thoughts, emotions, and impulses. On the other hand, grit enhances the achievement of goals through perseverance even before extreme external circumstance...

introduction. considering rights of patients and presence of a need for a standard clinical skills learning setting in recent 3 decades, it seems necessary to encourage decision – makers of medical education to establish clinical skills laboratory, in order to minimize unnecessary practices and possible injuries and reduce stress over students. cls in tums was established in 2001. in planning p...

CONTEXT There is attrition of women across professorial ranks in academic pathology. Women are underrepresented as leaders; 15.4% of academic pathology departments are chaired by women, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). OBJECTIVE To identify areas for targeted interventions that can advance academic and leadership development of women faculty by examining (1) s...

We study special systems with infinitely many degrees of freedom with regard to dynamical evolution and fulfillment of constraint conditions. Attention is focused on establishing a meaningful functional framework, and for that purpose, coherent states and reproducing kernel techniques are heavily exploited. Several examples are given.

Uncertainties exist at every stage of the architectural process, from project inception to construction supervision, but it is usually during the pre-design phase that decisions must be made with the least amount of solid information. The focus of this thesis is an examination of methods for dealing with the complex and uncertain decision situations encountered in the pre-design phase. Both tra...

While both business press and scholarly research largely portray entrepreneurship within well-established companies as inherently good, empirical evidence for positive performance implications based on rigorous research is scarce. This paper empirically assesses whether and for whom entrepreneurial activity creates value in a large traditional firm. In contrast to previous research I adopt a le...

The purpose of this study was to examine empowerment, job satisfaction levels, and relationships among 139 associate degree nursing educators.The Conditions of Work Effectiveness II, Psychological Empowerment Scale, and Job Diagnostic Survey were used. Findings indicated that the majority of educators were satisfied with their jobs as nursing faculty and felt empowered in their workplaces. Psyc...

Maximizing satisfaction in how people are grouped is problem in which, once a certain number of people are reached, it is not possible to examine all possible solutions. A number of heuristics were explored to approximate maximum satisfaction for different size teams for social and academic situations. These approximations produce sets of teams for which the predicted satisfaction is much impro...