INTRODUCTION Primary care residencies are expected to provide training in cultural competence. However, we have insufficient information about the perceptions of stakeholders actually involved in healthcare (i.e. residents, faculty and patients) regarding commonly encountered cross-cultural barriers and the skills required to overcome them. METHOD This study used a total of 10 focus groups to...

This article discusses the implications for competition, innovation and learning of different forms of inter-firm linkage, ways to govern them, different "generic systems" of innovation, and government policy. It employs a transformed theory of transactions that can deal with innovation and learning, and brings in trust next to opportunism. For learning and innovation it takes the resource/comp...

Although entrepreneurship at the university level has constantly been evolving, little research done on what competencies should be developed in education (EE) and how EE relates to core of entrepreneurship—the entrepreneurial process competence. This article seeks develop empirically measure competence context EE. A self-assessment questionnaire based ‘generic’ model, improved with section com...

the significance of research article (ra) abstract as a key academic genre has recently motivated analysts to focus on this neglected area. considering a summary function for abstracts, most genre researchers have adopted the conventionally proposed introduction- method- results- discussion (or conclusion) (imrd) model for analysis. however, the problems reported, especially for results and dis...

This volume in the prestigious Linguistic Insights book series (Peter Lang) fills an acknowledged lacuna studies considering tourism research article from a gender perspective. Indeed, attention paid to (RA) has been, if anything, fragmentary, since, as noted Lin and Evans (2012), no attempt been made fully outline generic structure of RA tourism. is precisely one focuses interest this monograp...

studies in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance of metaphors for language teaching. metaphoric competence, as an important aspect of intelligence, can contribute to the learning of languages. most textbooks in esl/efl avoid the issue of figurative language and concentrate only on the denotative aspects of language. this article reports a study conducted at the islamic azad univ...

As knowledge of English becomes a priority for the development Armed Forces Ukraine, modern military specialist is faced with number requirements, one which formation professionally oriented intercultural competence. Thus, cadet, who has certain conceptual and terminological apparatus in his/her specialization, opportunity to test own skills, provide self-analysis level both subject competences...