vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Dr. Andrew Butler and Dr. Stephen DeWeerth for their support and guidance during this project. I would especially like to thank Jeonghee Kim, for her ongoing mentorship and advice. I would also like to thank David Wu, Nick Housley, Veronica Young, and Motus Nova for use of the Hand Mentor Pro device, their expertise on the topic of stroke rehabilitation...

improvement process described above, and by offering practical support and advice, providing, for example, skills in “Teaching-on-the-run” or “How to give constructive feedback”. In South Australia, the MEOs as a group offer a wide range of skills, including expertise in education, counselling, management, project development and research. They are a resource that can be called on across campus...

Introduction The Pharmacodynamic/ pharmacokinetic Technologies Advisory Committee (PTAC) of Cancer Research UK has the objective of increasing the extent of mechanistic and hypothesis testing in early phase clinical trials. PTAC reviews all applications submitted to the New Agents Committee (NAC) and with expertise in PET, MRI and MRS as well as many of the other currently emerging technologies...

the expertise order is of interlocutory orders that an arbitrator would make during the arbitral proceeding, when the subject is being technical. the legislator has dealt with this subject only in article 476 of the civil procedure law. this article only provides the possibility of appointing an expert by the arbitral tribunal. it does not provide further details such as the possibility of appo...

OBJECTIVES To study and report the attitudes of patients and general practitioners (GPs) concerning the obligation of doctors to act for the good of their patients, and to provide a practical account of beneficence in general practice. DESIGN Semi-structured interviews administered to GPs and patients. SETTING AND SAMPLE Participants randomly recruited from an age and gender stratified list...

the most common reason for women ceasing breast-feeding were lack of support and appropriate advice. to explore the advice about breast-feeding given by community midwives and compare and contrast their advice in swansea (uk) and shahrekord (iran). data collected through semi-structured interview with a sample of 12 community midwives, 6 from each country. purposive sample was selected as capab...

All too often, valuable knowledge is lost from organisations when experts leave — both the experts and their expertise represent valuable assets (Huber, 1999). When older experts leave the workforce, they take with them significant experience and critical knowledge essential to the smooth management of organisations (Hylko, 2005). Employers, however, are often unaware of who possesses expertise...

This paper examines the conditions of trustworthy science advice mechanisms, in which scientists have a mandated role to inform public policymaking. Based on literature epistemic trust and science, we argue that possession relevant expertise, justified moral political considerations, as well proper institutional design are for advice. In order assess these further, explore case temporary adviso...

1 Describing science/policy boundaries The tasks science-based experts perform for policy are many. In the traditional set of instrumental tasks, experts provide factual information to policy makers, assess future policy outcomes, or determine effects of past policies. However, the practice of policy expertise is much more varied. Experts may criticise policy makers’ problem definitions, redefi...

FAO has as its mandate the raising of levels of nutrition and standards of living and ensuring humanity's freedom from hunger by promoting sustainable agricultural development and alleviating poverty. FAO is dedicated to promoting agriculture, nutrition, forestry, fisheries and rural development to achieve the World Food Summit goal of eradicating hunger. FAO provides advice and assistance to o...