Working and Training Conditions of Gynecology Residents in North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany

RSV and HMPV seroprevalence in Tuscany (Italy) and North‐Rhine Westfalia (Germany) in the winter season 2009/2010

North-Rhine Westfalia (Germany) in the winter season 2009/2010 Maria G. Cusi, Chiara Terrosi, Michael Kleines, Oliver Schildgen Department of Biotechnologies, Microbiology Section, University of Siena, Siena, Italy. Division of Virology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria. Institute for Pathology, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Klinikum der Privaten Universität Witten ⁄Herdecke...

Routine abortion training matters for obstetrics and gynecology residents

Background: We set out to compare resident perspective regarding self-rated ability to perform abortion procedures, abortion attitudes and satisfaction with training at programs with routine and optional abortion training. Methods: We distributed surveys and conducted 1-h focus groups for 62 residents at six New York City OB/GYN programs; three offer routine abortion training. We compared resid...

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Transparency systems: do businesses in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) regret the cancellation of the Smiley scheme?

Our paper explores how participants of voluntary transparency systems react to the cancellation of such programmes. We concern ourselves with participants of the voluntary transparency scheme known as the “North Rhine-Westphalia Smiley”. The Smiley system, which awarded the compliant behavior of businesses that joined it, was established in 2007 but cancelled in 2013 due to lack of participants...

Energy in North Rhine-Westphalia