Workplace-Based Assessment (WBA) plays a pivotal role in present-day competency-based medical curricula. Validity in WBA mainly depends on how stakeholders (e.g. clinical supervisors and learners) use the assessments-rather than on the intrinsic qualities of instruments and methods. Current research on assessment in clinical contexts seems to imply that variable behaviours during performance as...

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of implementation Quality Management System (ISO 9001:2000) in gas processing plants of National Iranian Gas Company using balanced scorecard approach. More specifically, we chose the balanced scorecard framework to examine five well-known gas processing plants in National Iranian Gas Company from four different perspectives in order...

The contribution illustrates in what way research and development processes can benefit from the integration of diversity perspectives by showing several examples from computer science and other closely related disciplines. Building on this a possible contribution of diversity perspectives for computer science will be presented. Especially in applied computer science, which is supposed to suppo...

In this paper three perspectives are presented on defining the general notion of technical artifacts in formal ontologies. These perspectives share two intuitions: that technical artifacts are objects that exist by human intervention; and that technical artifacts are to be contrasted to natural entities. Yet the perspectives are different in the way they spell out these intuitions: the relevant...

A traditional approach in agricultural and veterinary research is focussing on the biological perspective where large cattle-databases are used to analyse the dairy herd. This approach has yielded valuable insights. However, recent research indicates that this knowledge-base can be further increased by examining agricultural and veterinary challenges from other perspectives. In this paper we su...

a bstract background: spiritual care should be considered an important part of holistic and multidisciplinary care and it has not been given much importance so far. we should begin with student nurses, who will soon be clinicians, to fi nd out about potentiality of the nursing profession to put spiritual care into practice. little has been known about spiritual well-being, spirituality, and spi...

Adaptation to climate change is being addressed in many domains. This means that there are multiple perspectives on adaptation; often with differing visions resulting in disconnected responses and outcomes. Combining singular perspectives into coherent, combined perspectives that include multiple needs and visions can help to deepen the understanding of various aspects of adaptation and provide...

Confirmation is a useful concept for assessing the impact of the premise on the conclusion of a rule induced from data. Interpretation of probabilistic relationships between premise and conclusion of a rule led to four mathematical formulations of confirmation, called perspectives. The logical equivalence of these perspectives and the resulting general definition of confirmation underline the k...

Abstract. Perspective-Based Reading (PBR) is a scenario-based inspection technique for quality assurance of requirements documents where several reviewers read a document from different perspectives (e.g. user, designer, tester). The reading is made according to a special scenario, specific for each perspective, where each perspective is expected to find different defects and a combination of s...

Many different actors have hopes and aspirations for the future of organic agriculture. They have different perspectives on organic agriculture with different understandings of what it is and what makes it move. Each perspective entails a certain understanding of organic agriculture featuring certain concepts and values and a particular logic or rationality. It is important to acknowledge this ...