There was a deep depression in the early 1990s in Finland, during which the number of jobs in Finnish industry decreased. By improving productivity, we can increase the price competitiveness of Finnish products and create the necessary conditions for increasing our standard of living. Although productivity improvement is important, it does not always succeed. A "rm may have a real intention to ...

The aim of this study was to identify global health ethical issues that health professional trainees may encounter during electives or placements in resource-limited countries. We conducted a qualitative study involving focus groups and an interview at the University of California San Francisco. Participants were multi-professional from the Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy and had expe...

One of the prerequisites for sustainable development is knowledge, in order to inform coping with sustainability threats and to support innovative sustainability pathways. Transferring knowledge is therefore a fundamental challenge for sustainability, in a context where external knowledge must be integrated with local knowledge in order to promote user-driven action. But effective local co-prod...

This article presents case studies detailing the learning trajectories of two physical education (cooperating) teachers as they strive to establish and maintain their identity as competent and confident supervisors to pre-service teachers on school placement. The cooperating teachers who participated in the study share their experiences in attempting to construct a professional identity within ...

This paper examines the obstacles of marriage and analyzes the tendency towards marriage in Hamedan Province. This paper uses survey data required a sample of 400 young individuals by using a multistage cluster sampling and stratified random sampling. The main obstacles of marriage in this study in terms of priority, were cultural obstacles with an average rank (4.94), social obstacles with an ...

BACKGROUND Many internal and external obstacles, must be overcome when establishing a new medical school, or when radically revising an existing medical curriculum. AIMS Twenty-five years after the Flinders University curriculum was introduced as the first graduate-entry medical programme (GEMP) in Australia, we aim at describing how it has been adopted and adapted by several other schools, i...

The McDonnell Norms Group Advances in clinical investigation, data analysis, rapid dissemination, and rigorous evaluation of the findings led to the accumulation of medical " evidence. " This evidence now forms the basis of thousands of guidelines developed and promulgated by professional societies, safety and outcomes organizations, provider institutions , and regulators. With rare exception, ...

This paper reports the findings of a study that examines the evolving relationships between the state’s entrepreneurial role and market factors such as business support services, business training and professional development, technological and information support services and SMEs’ development in Vietnam. This study uses an institutional approach to study how the entrepreneurial state influenc...

One of the major obstacles in the process of national development, is the disruption in regional balance construct. As has been noted in some studies the existence of regional inequity leads to domination of some regions to surrounding regions and causing political and economic challenges in developing countries. And given that transportation is one of the components of region, undoubtedly equi...