INTRODUCTION Few studies have examined how peer coaching is an effective educational and development technique in contexts outside the classroom. This research focused on peer coaching as a platform to study the process of professional development for physicians. The purpose was to identify perceived benefits coaches received from a coaching encounter and how this relates to their own process o...

People select one another in professional relationships for a variety of reasons. We hypothesize that individuals match to their associates along a set of prominent dimensions, and in so doing, expose themselves to many unanticipated social influences. To examine the inter-generational transmission of traits in the context of scientific mentorship, we collect a novel dataset tracking the traini...

Reform of introductory science courses seeks to increase student retention and learning, yet faculty members are often unaware of modern teaching practices and/or not motivated to change their practices. Brownell and Tanner (2012) outlined another potential barrier: scientific professional identities are defined primarily by research and not by teaching. We think this is also an issue for gradu...

P systems with symport/antiport rules of a minimal size (only one object passes in any direction in a communication step) were recently proven to be computationally universal. The proof from [2] uses systems with nine membranes. In this paper we improve this results, by showing that six membranes suffice. The optimality of this result remains open (we believe that the number of membranes can be...