131 Thoughts at the beginning of the term The mission I was assigned, that of leading the biggest and the oldest school of medicine in Romania, is an honorable task, but, in the same time, it is very difficult. First, because we are going through a complex period, in which a change is requested and, most importantly is needed, but the reforms are, very often, misunderstood or inapplicable...

Database System Design is a required course is nearly all undergraduate Computer Science and Information Systems curricula. We reflect upon a critical re-examination of our teaching of such a course in Database Design, invoking the tiers of learning espoused by Bloom, and propose some recommendations in light of desired levels of thinking skills and the availability of recently developed softwa...

BACKGROUND Equity of access to healthcare remains a major challenge with families continuing to face financial and non-financial barriers to services. Lack of education has been shown to be a key risk factor for 'catastrophic' health expenditure (CHE), in many countries including India. Consequently, ways to address the education divide need to be explored. We aimed to assess whether the innova...

The core of empowering a community to become more resilient is rooted in disaster risk reduction and its education imparted using various educational tools, mainly through awareness and training programs. Conveying the available knowledge resources to the community by transforming it in a way that matches the local context in order to build a “culture of safety” is the hardest matter to be deal...

The article aims to be a reflective paper on the interconnected concepts of training, development and innovation and the potential they have in dealing with change in organizations. We call change both the process through which something becomes different and the result of that process. Change management is the expression used to define the complex of activities, functions, and tools (such as t...

Higher education institutions in Europe have been recently faced with a rapidly changing external framework for developing new study programmes and their curricula. The main contribution of our paper is to provide a better insight into the skills and competences of business school graduates needed at the labour market, as seen by employers, graduates of business schools, and academics. The pape...

BACKGROUND Previous studies on domestic violence in Indonesia have focused primarily on women's experiences and little research has been undertaken to understand men's views on domestic violence or their involvement in the prevention of domestic violence. This study aimed to explore men's views on masculinity and the use of violence within marriage, in order to gain knowledge on how to involve ...

Developing technologies, such as computational design and digital fabrication, are transforming the design and construction of contemporary architecture. Today, architecture schools are tasked with introducing digital technologies as they are changing, creating an opportunity to develop innovative curricula and democratize access to these skills. However, the understanding of how to teach digit...

The article traces the transformations of Folkloristics and Ethnology as university disciplines in Bergen, Norway, since the 1960s. The changes in basic assumptions and fields of interest are seen in the context of the development of the educational system, especially the social role of the social sciences and the humanities at large. INTRODUCTION The humanistic disciplines concerned with the s...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of educational materials in improving the attitudes of parents of young children about the judicious use of antibiotics. METHODS We conducted a randomized controlled trial by recruiting parents of children who were younger than 24 months and being seen for any reason in primary care pediatric offices. At the time of enrollment, study parents indicated ...