Purpose – Successful visionary educational leaders promote a shared vision with great commitment and manage to connect other organizational members to it. In spite of this, the source of their personal commitment to the organizational vision has not yet been the subject of extended study. This study aims to correct this by investigating leaders' personal ethos; the personal experiences and valu...

Almost 2 years after Woo Suk Hwang and colleagues published groundbreaking work on the creation of human embryonic stem-cell lines, an investigation committee from Seoul National University, South Korea, announced that much of the research had been fabricated. Human embryos had not been cloned and stem-cell lines had not been derived from patient-specific somatic cells. Science retracted the tw...

Despite the fact it has been recognised since Aristotle that ethos and credibility play a critical role in many types of communication, these facts are rarely studied in linguistically oriented AI which has enjoyed such success in processing complex features as sentiment, opinion, and most recently arguments. This paper shows how a text analysis pipeline of structural and statistical approaches...

PURPOSE Interventions to improve school ethos can reduce substance use but "upstream" causal pathways relating to implementation and school-level changes are uncertain. We use qualitative and quantitative data from a pilot trial to build hypotheses regarding these. METHODS The Healthy School Ethos intervention involved two schools being provided with facilitation, training, and funding to pla...

This article examines a number of Robin Hood novels written for children in the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods. The finds that ideology public school ethos, or “games ethic,” is diffused throughout novels: “New” Imperialism schools late 1800s became increasingly militaristic imperialist, this imperialist reflected texts.

Almost 2 years after Woo Suk Hwang and colleagues published groundbreaking work on the creation of human embryonic stem-cell lines, an investigation committee from Seoul National University, South Korea, announced that much of the research had been fabricated. Human embryos had not been cloned and stem-cell lines had not been derived from patient-specific somatic cells. Science retracted the tw...

Abstract Arguably, one of the defining traits an expert is certainty knowledge. So, what happens when experts in a critical situation public simultaneously must recognize uncertainty about knowledge and argue for specific policies actions? This has been challenge many national health during COVID-19 crisis. We examine such argumentative strategies by asking: are used attempting to secure bolste...

Aim: Validated instruments exist measuring parts of personal health, ill-health and lifestyle, but there are few, if any, instruments “grasping the big picture” of wellness and ethos. Accordingly the aim was to develop and establish the psychometric properties of a 74-item Ethos towards Wellness Questionnaire (EtWeQ) with regards to content and construct validity, as well as homogeneity and sta...

A Health promoting schools (HPS) approach aims to make schools a healthy place through a holistic approach that promotes a supportive 'school ethos' and emphasizes improvements in physical, social, and emotional well-being and educational outcomes. A HPS initiative in rural Nova Scotia (Canada) provided an opportunity for a population-level natural experiment. This study investigated student we...