The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic has raised numerous ethical issues. Above all, it has served to highlight the fact that individual liberty always exists in a precarious balance with public interest. The invasion of privacy, loss of confidentiality, and coercive approaches proposed for testing and disclosure of infected individuals threaten to turn this into and undergro...

One of the issues for the Personal Learning Environment is the integration of personal tools with institution-centric information and services such as timetable information, and the coordination of cohort-specific group activities. One potential solution is the use of widgets – small, single-function applications that can be used in different applications, including personal technologies. One o...

In the last days of 1982, the corporate-funded business education nonprofit Junior Achievement (JA) began distributing 121 donated personal computers—Xerox 820s, Hewlett Packard HP-86s, and IBM personal computers—to classrooms in 25 cities across the United States. The donated machines were part of JA’s new high school course, Applied Economics. The course curriculum had been designed with the ...

Objectives: Clinical education in medical sciences is essential, because of its important role in the education of specialist skills. Physiotherapy specialization is among the main branches of medical sciences, which requires high academic and professional skills. One of the most important and effective methods to assess the quality of clinical education in physiotherapy is to review it from a ...

Zoonotic disease poses an important threat to human public health and should therefore be taken seriously. A number of zoonoses also cause severe disease and loss of production in food producing animals. Many veterinarians are less aware of the importance of zoonoses than is desirable and medical clinicians who encounter zoonoses in human patients may either fail to recognise them or concentrat...

PURPOSE Students of health education are often offended by the transitions and challenges they face while encountering diverse people, ideas and academic workloads. They may be offended because of reasons not only related to their societal background but also to their basic competence in managing transitions. In the Asian scenario, students enter the first year of professional education in thei...

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This material is also provided to the Supervisor of Marking, to give some guidance about the nature and scope of the responses the committee expected students would produce. How sample answers are used at marking centres varies. Sample answers may be used extensively and even modified at the marking centre OR they may be considered only briefly at the beginning of marking. In a few cases, the s...