Abstract The (re)connection of contemporary society with traditional knowledge and its expression, crafts, is a contradictory endeavor in itself. On one hand, crafts are socially perceived as burden, useless part social life, the best case, an exotic remanence past, good only for hobbyists. other UNESCO WIPO stated, knowledge, and, by extension, (or should be) essential humankind’s history, pre...

The aim here is to emphasise the topological and geometric structure that the Ziegler spectrum carries and to illustrate how this structure may be used in the analysis of particular examples. There is not space here for me to give a survey of what is known about the Ziegler spectrum so there are a number of topics that I will just mention in order to give some indication of what lies beyond wha...

conclusions the levels of knowledge and skill among iranian physicians on major topics of sports and exercise medicine are low to medium. gps and interns are the first line of patient management so our findings suggest adding some sports medicine related topics into curriculum of medical doctors. materials and methods a cross-sectional study was performed in 2009 to determine the knowledge rega...

* Work supported by US Department of Energy Abstract Experience using hardware knobs as an operator interface for controlling equipment has varied considerably at different facilities. Reactions have ranged from “indispensable” at some facilities, to “virtually useless” at others. In this paper, we will attempt to outline some basic principles for successful knob implementation. These principle...

Learning facts without first considering what they could be can lead to hindsight bias. How might this impact (a) memory and (b) understanding of novel topics? Foresight participants read about five psychology studies, including mean performance of one group; then they estimated the mean performance of another group and stated causes for the difference; finally, they received the second group’s...

PURPOSE Minimal inclusion of women's health topics in dental and dental hygiene curricula may not prepare dental health care workers to provide comprehensive health care to females. The purposes of these surveys in 2001 and 2007 were to investigate United States dental hygiene school curricula regarding inclusion of women's health topics in differing degree programs (associate/certificate, bacc...

Empiricism is no longer a tenable position in the philosophy of science. As a result, it is worth examining what it was that made empiricism such an attractive position for so long and if anything valuable can be salvaged from that tradition. The debates about empiricism usually contrasted knowledge obtained from observation and experiment on the one hand with knowledge obtained from theories o...

Thank you for your letter enquiring about the pros and cons of vocational training for general practice. While you have most of your preregistration year ahead of you, it is not too soon to start to think about your future plans. You are quite right in thinking that, at present, you will be perfectly entitled to seek entry into general practice as soon as you are fully registered. While there a...