The Personal Software Process, PSP, was developed at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute as a personal version of the Capability Maturity Model. The intention of the PSP is to educate individual software engineers in the processes they follow in completing a programming task with a view to improving the quality of future work. At each level of the PSP more and more usefu...

in recent decades, empowerment as delegation of power to someone has been used a mechanism to increase personal and work life quality of women. higher education and occupation are effective instruments for empowering women but the role of culture can't be denied in this relation. social norms can directly or indirectly limit women's empowerment. in this article the role of higher educ...

Using data from developing countries, this paper examines the links between ICT diffusion and per capita income, trade and financial indicators, education, and freedom indicators. Internet hosts, Internet users, personal computers and mobile phones represent indicators of ICT. The Gompertz model of technology diffusion is used to study ICT dissemination. The results show that income and governm...

Internet is being used increasingly as a resource for accessing healthrelated information because of its several advantages. Therefore, Internet tailoring becomes quite preferable in health education and personal health management recently. Today, there are many web based health programs designed for individuals. Among these studies nutrition and weight management is popular because, obesity ha...

Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US lab...

An important discussion at colleges is centered on determining more effective models for teaching undergraduates. As personalized genomics has become more common, we hypothesized it could be a valuable tool to make science education more hands on, personal, and engaging for college undergraduates. We hypothesized that providing students with personal genome testing kits would enhance the learni...

Family medicine is part of the process by which medicine adjusts itself to the changing needs of society. Family physicians have in common the fact that they obtain fulfillment from personal relations more than from the technical aspects of medicine. Their commitment is to a group of people more than to a body of knowledge. Their experience gives them a distinctive perspective of illness that i...

There has been recent interest in determining whether neighborhood characteristics are related to the cardiovascular health of residents. However, there are no data regarding the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) and prevalence of subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the elderly. We related personal SES (education, income, and occupation type) and neighborhood ...

1 and History 1 Conclusion 8 2. PATIENT'S PERSPECTIVE 11 Robert Raffa and Kathleen J. Martin Abstract 11 Conclusion 1211 Conclusion 12 3. ONCOLOGY NURSE'S PERSPECTIVE 13 Jamie S. Myers Abstract 13 Introduction: personal Reflections of an Oncology Nurse 13 Chemotherapy-Related Cognitive Impairment: The Oncology Nurse Perspective 14 Oncology Nursing Research 14 Oncology Nursing Education 17 Concl...

The purpose of this exploratory research is to document the level of personal assistance support provided to students with severe physical disabilities by disability support services in higher education institutions across the United States. A national survey was conducted of members of the Association of Higher Education And Disability (AHEAD) via an online survey. Of the 326 respondents with ...