Architects appointed – the first step!

Criteria for the selection of architects by first-time clients

Purpose: The purpose of the research is to answer two questions: Which factors do individual clients consider when selecting an architect for the first time? How does the importance attached to these factors vary with the procurement method? Design approach: These questions are answered in a questionnaire survey of commissioned architects for recent clients of architects who have residential pr...

[First step: the clinical question].

En el año 2003 se inauguró en la Revista Médica de Chile una Sección titulada “Medicina Basada en Evidencia” (MBE). En concordancia con el ciclo de la MBE, uno de los primeros artículos publicados en dicha Sección se centró en la formulación de una pregunta clínica adecuada. Desde entonces hasta ahora, ha habido un desarrollo importante en el ámbito de la MBE, siendo oportuno actualizar los con...

Are Appointed Judges Strategic Too?

The conventional wisdom among many legal scholars is that judicial independence can best be achieved with an appointive judiciary; judicial elections turn judges into politicians, threatening judicial autonomy. Yet the original supporters of judicial elections successfully eliminated the appointive systems of many states by arguing that judges who owed their jobs to politicians could never be t...

Newly Appointed Consultants

τέχνη: A First Step

A new approach to the design of the computing curriculum for a Bachelor of Arts degree is described. The approach relies extensively on problem-based instruction and computer graphics. The novelty arises from the magnitude and origin of the problems to be integrated into the curriculum and the breadth of the impact across the curriculum. Results from a trial course, the first experiment with th...