Assessment feedback can have an emotional impact on students. This research contributes to the existing body of literature students’ reactions assessment through investigating negative responses summative experienced by first-year students at two UK universities. The majority learners interviewed indicated that their initial had a and demotivated them. For some these emotions were very serious ...

nowdays, democracy is become an universal value so that all intellectual tendencies should put it into their concerns. whether it accepts or not? the central value is caused a change in many political theories to democracy. it seems that one of most important these endeavors is concerned to practitioners of political philosophy that have attempted to revise negative attitudes of it. this articl...

BACKGROUND Uptake of NHS Health Checks remains below the national target. Better understanding of predictors of uptake can inform targeting and delivery. We explored invitation method and geographical proximity as predictors of uptake in deprived urban communities. METHODS This observational cohort study used data from all 4855 individuals invited for an NHS Health Check (September 2010-Febru...

brand plays an important role in contacting customers. even from the customer’s viewpoint, it is a symbol of product quality. measuring the brand equity in order to determine the brand position is of remarkable significance for companies, in particular iranian ones. the purpose of this article is to investigate the parameters that influence brand equity and provide a mathematical model for meas...

It is important to understand the full implications of introducing a new screening and treatment programme into the National Health Service. In this paper, we calculate, for mild hypertension, the cost of community-based screening and the cost of case-finding in general practice. We show that case-finding in general practice is both less expensive and more efficient. We calculate the cost of ru...

The challenge to provide a nation-wide integrated health service is central to UK government policy. The National Program for Information Technology was launched in 2002 to transform healthcare using information and communications technology. As the largest, non-military, non-scientific government funded IT program worldwide, it was planned over a decade with an estimated total cost expected to...