Many practicing physical therapists participate in the most crucial phase of a student's education by serving as Clinical Instructors. The purposes of this study were to identify the clinical teaching behaviors perceived as most effective and most hindering by students and CIs and to compare the response rates of students in bachelor's and master's degree programs. A published 58-item questionn...

TOSCA is a new OASIS standard to describe composite applications and their management. The structure of an application is described by a topology, whereas management plans describe the application’s management functionalities, e. g., provisioning or migration. Winery is a tool offering an HTML5-based environment for graph-based modeling of application topologies and defining reusable component ...

BACKGROUND Policy initiatives and an increasing amount of the literature within higher education both call for students to become more involved in creating their own learning. However, there is a lack of studies in undergraduate nursing education that actively involve students in developing such learning material with descriptions of the students' roles in these interactive processes. METHOD ...

Student assistance (SA) professionals regularly encounter youth involved in a variety of highrisk behaviors — substance experimentation, high-risk sexual activity, sensation-seeking, intentional self-injury and acts of aggression toward property and people. Particularly striking to many long-tenured SA professionals is the growing co-occurrence of these behaviors and the lowering of the age at ...

This paper investigates the causal effects of the increase in tuition fees and the Great Recession on the risk of students dropping out of HE. For students from high unemployment areas the effect of the recession was positive for males and females. The tuition fee reform counteracted the recession effect for males, whereas for females the reform effect reinforced the recession effect. For stude...

One of the roots of the recent global financial crisis has been seen in the design of subprime mortgage contract leading to high sensitivity of such type of loans to house price changes. The market of subprime loans, especially in the last years preceding the crisis, has been highly financed by securitization. The paper investigates how borrowers with subprime characteristics influence the tran...

Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the...

Understanding post adoption behavior has emerged as an important issue in IS research. Organizations have invested in a plethora of information systems (IS) and enriching the usage of these systems can provide organizations with immense benefits. Prior research has examined factors that lead to continued usage of IS, which is critical. But comprehending usage behavior in the context of effectiv...

We show that since 1994, branching deregulations in the U.S have signi…cantly a¤ected the supply of mortgage credit, and ultimately house prices. With deregulation, the number and volume of originated mortgage loans increase, while denial rates fall. But the deregulation has no e¤ect on a placebo sample, formed of Independent Mortgage Companies that should not be a¤ected by the regulatory chang...

It has been argued that the rise of professions in society has been on the increase for over a century, to the extent that they are seen as integral to post-industrial society. Yet, within information systems minimal research has considered users as professionals. Instead, professions and professionalism as units of analysis have usually been intertwined with discussions of IT workers and syste...