PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to investigate the pursuit of achievement goals in medical students and to assess the relationship between achievement goals, learning strategy, and motivation. METHODS Two hundred seventy freshman and sophomore premedical students and sophomore medical school students participated in this study, which used the Achievement Goals Scale and the Self-Regulate...

Compensation is a feature of Business Process Modelling which allows error correction based on non-atomic rollback. Several variant strategies exist for compensation in a similar way that many patterns exist for workflow. Existing formalisations model compensation and workflow in an ad-hoc fashion, mainly due to their high-level nature. In this paper we propose a low-level approach using Timed ...

Active movements are important in the rehabilitation training for patients with neurological motor disorders, while weight of upper limb impedes movements due to muscles weakness. The objective of this study is to develop a position-varying gravity compensation strategy for a cable-based rehabilitation robot. The control strategy can estimate real-time gravity torque according to position feedb...

BACKGROUND Many academic medical centres have introduced strategies to assess the productivity of faculty as part of compensation schemes. We conducted a systematic review of the effects of such strategies on faculty productivity. METHODS We searched the MEDLINE, Healthstar, Embase and PsycInfo databases from their date of inception up to October 2011. We included studies that assessed academ...

Previous studies have shown that when a recipient suffers from financial harm, allocators can use repair strategies that address financial or relational interests to promote relationship repair. Research to date, however, has neglected to study the effects of financial and relational strategies on relationship preservation simultaneously. In the present contribution, we examine this question. B...

offshore employees (expatriates) working abroad are an important part of any organisational workforce, working and competing globally. the specific requirements of expatriates are quite different as compared to the local workforce of that particular company. these requirements range from base salary to the educational needs of their families, children, and spouses. the employers especially work...

This paper presents the design of a new error compensation model for providing QoS support on a wireless network. The compensation model uses different compensation strategies for the different priority classes in conjunction with a Multiclass Priority Fair Queuing (MPFQ) algorithm. Criteria for fair error compensation and a classification of error compensation models are established in order t...