A profession serves a public purpose. Consequently, an outline of the history of the actuarial profession must follow the public purposes served by actuaries in applying their basic science. The formation in London in 1762 of the Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships as a mutual company, initiated a process that created a public purpose for actuaries. A mutual insurance co...

BACKGROUND The chiropractic profession has succeeded to remain in existence for over 110 years despite the fact that many other professions which had their start at around the same time as chiropractic have disappeared. Despite chiropractic's longevity, the profession has not succeeded in establishing cultural authority and respect within mainstream society, and its market share is dwindling. I...

Using the Job Demands-Resources Model of Burnout as an organizing framework, this study examines multiple models of the antecedents of emotional exhaustion with the profession among IS workers via a new structural equation modeling software, WarpPLS. Data were analyzed from 293 IS professionals representing various industries across the United States. This study provides empirical evidence rega...

Yet, when I began to set my thoughts in order, the concept of surgery and what it takes to be a surgeon proved to be elusive. Each word or definition suggested more words and more description. It began to look as if there was just too much material to describe this entity, almost “too many notes.”1 The topic would not reduce itself. I became engrossed with finding a way to adequately describe s...

Dentistry is a profession in transition. Important economic, demographic and political forces are colliding to reshape the practice environment for America’s dentists. To better understand the potential changes on the horizon, the American Dental Association (ADA) recently carried out a comprehensive, future-oriented analysis of the dental care sector as part of the 2015-2020 strategic plan dev...

as an interdisciplinary profession, conservation of historic places has a vast connection with other branches of knowledge such as engineering, art and social science. the education of this profession, for the same reason, is a complicated and multidimensional issue. the rich and numerous cultural and historical heritage of iran indicate the significance of establishing appropriate standards an...