BACKGROUND A competitive Carrick Institute Competitive Grant (CG7-523) was obtained to explore what skills were taught and what assessment of practice approaches were used in nursing programmes in Australia. The intention was twofold; firstly to identify what skills were being taught which would contribute to the development of an assessment of practice toolkit for eligibility to practice progr...

We tested the assumptions of Attentional Control Theory (ACT) by examining the impact of anxiety on anticipation using a dynamic, time-constrained task. Moreover, we examined the involvement of high- and low-level cognitive processes in anticipation and how their importance may interact with anxiety. Skilled and less-skilled tennis players anticipated the shots of opponents under low- and high-...

The aim of the present study was to conduct within-gymnast analyses of biological movement variability in impact forces, elbow joint kinematics and kinetics of expert gymnasts in the execution of the round-off with different hand positions. Six international level female gymnasts performed 10 trials of the round-off from a hurdle step to a back-handspring using two hand potions: parallel and T-...

Medical curriculum revisions all over the world in the last 20 years have increased the number of teaching hours in communication skills. This article describes a concrete communication skills teaching programme focused on general practice. Since the spring of 1992, more than 2,000 physicians from Denmark, Sweden and Finland have attended courses within this programme in Kalymnos, Greece. The t...

Development of cognitive architecture where the agents at different levels exhibit different levels of thinking. The paper primarily focus on building the skill tree at the learning layer of the architecture. These include the discovery of one’s own body, including its structure and dynamics. Also the acquisition of associated cognitive skills such as self and non-self-distinction. This can be ...

OBJECTIVES We investigate whether age profiles of Tsimane forager-horticulturalists' reported skill development are consistent with predictions derived from life history theory about the timing of productivity and reproduction. Previous studies of forager skill development have often focused on a few abilities (e.g. hunting), and neglected the broad range of skills and services typical of forag...

objective: the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of life skills training on decreasing social phobia (sp) disorder in students with hearing impairment. methods: the sample included 30 male students, age range from 8 to 18 years with hearing impairment recruited from exceptional schools. their age and iq were matched. they were randomly assigned into experimental and contr...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to develop a scale to measure life skills and to assess the levels of life skills in adolescents of a secondary school at Kathmandu. METHODOLOGY A descriptive, cross sectional survey of adolescents from class VIII, IX, and X of a public co-educational secondary school of Kathmandu was done with the help of self-administered questionnaires prepared in ...

objectives:  this  study  aimed  to  examine  the  effectiveness  of  life  skills  training  on  quality  of  life  in mothers of children with down syndrome.  methods:  this  research  was  done  as  a  semi-experimental  with  pre-post  test  and  with  control  group. statistical population included all children with down syndrome, age from 2 months to 8 years, and their mothers who referre...