Recent proposals for re-defining the roles Africa’s health workforce are a continuation of the discussions that have been held since colonial times. The proposals have centred on basing the continent’s healthcare delivery on non-physician clinicians (NPCs) who can be quickly trained and widely distributed to treat majority of the common diseases. Whilst seemingly logical, the success of these p...

We find significant style differences between articles written by economists for their professional journals and articles by the same economists in the Wall Street Journal. We find no evidence that style influences the professional success of economists, which suggests that the private rewards to improving the quality of writing are low. Indeed, each community of scholars has probably adopted a...

O knowledge is a critical source of competitive advantage for professional service firms. Learning from experience and sustaining past knowledge are critical to the success of such knowledge-driven firms. We use learning curve theory to evaluate learning and depreciation in professional services. Our results, based on seven years of project data collected from an architectural engineering (A/E)...

This paper describes training and professional development activities at a mid-sized IT consulting firm over the last roughly 15 years. These activities have successfully engaged many of the consultants and provided significant career bonuses and advantages for the company. We present the types of activities, their effectiveness and success, and the evolution of professional development efforts...

The purpose of this paper is to build a logistic regression model where the outcome is the logit of probability of student success in quantitative course and predictor variables are identified factors that contribute to success. The model is based on a random sample of students in professional studies at the University. The applied methodology with obtained results can serve to identify factors...

dream of Olympic glory, and for the few who achieve professional success there are notable financial rewards. It is perhaps unsurprising that there is a strong temptation to enhance performance pharmacologically in both professional and amateur sports, and growth hormone (GH) is well recognised as a drug of abuse. This is particularly the case among weightlifters, where it is typically used in ...

The purpose of this article is to reexamine the current use of what is to count as evaluation evidence to inform professional practice. The provision of evaluation evidence to inform decision making has long been an aspiration, albeit with varying degrees of success. However the need to reexamine the utility of this endeavour has arisen in the contemporary culture of evidence-based policy and p...