Digital Commons Network^™

Extension Organization Of The Future: Linking Emotional Intelligence And Core Competencies, Deliece Ayers, Barbara Stone

Journal of Extension

Recruiting, hiring, and keeping desirable employees have been fundamental goals in institutions since before the Industrial Revolution. Traditionally, developing an exceptional workforce has been a hit-or-miss process. Recently, however, national and international organizations like Amoco, Dupont, Federal Express, and the Texas Agricultural Extension Service building a workforce for the 21st century. have developed competency models to lure and keep good workers. Part of competency models is the idea that high emotional intelligence is valuable. Emotional Intelligence and competencies are a natural fit, and they will, no doubt, become increasingly popular as organizations recognize their importance in building a workforce for …

Community Mapping Exercises Provide Enhanced Participant Interaction In Visioning Processes, Connie Bodeen, Mark Hilliker

Journal of Extension

The public sector has utilized a variety of techniques to plan for the future since the 1950s. As these techniques have evolved, so has the level of public participation. Community Visioning processes used today rely heavily on public input. Community Mapping exercises provide enhancements to the visioning process by providing a more interactive and tactile method for creating a future vision for a community. By working in small groups and creating "Big and Bold Ideas" on a large-format map, participants create a graphic image of the future of their community that provides a platform for implementation.

Specialty And Minor Crops Handbook: Reference For Agricultural Extension Professionals And Small-Scale Farmers, Gary Gao

Journal of Extension

The second edition of the "Specialty and Minor Crop Handbook" makes a great reference for agriculture and horticulture personnel and small-scale family farmers. This handbook was published in 1998. It is available in softcover for $35 per copy (U.S. funds), plus $5 shipping and handling, from the University of California. The specialty and minor crop section includes 63 crop sheets covering specialty vegetables, culinary herbs, salad greens, specialty fruits, and other interesting crops. The Specialty and Minor Crop Handbook is 186 pages long with 95 high quality color photos.

Taking R&E To The Next Level, Thomas W. Blaine, Stephen Hudkins, Charles R. Taylor

Journal of Extension

During the late 1980s, the business retention and expansion (R&E) program emerged as one of the most successful programs in Ohio State University Extension's Community Development area. As the economic recovery of the early 1990s turned into an economic expansion, business and civic leaders began to shift focus from general R&E efforts to issues related to labor force preparedness. A survey of businesses in Portage County undertaken four years after completion of an R&E program reveals that, while employers believe that local resources are available to help improve basic math and communication skills of employees, those skill levels are still …

Feedback In Distance Education: Broadening Electronic Communication Pathways

Journal of Extension

This article explores how one distance education program has maximized the use of electronic mail for exchanging information between professors and students in a distance education environment. The article discusses issues that face distance educators when using electronic mail for exchanging course materials and offers possible solutions for effective student homework submission and professor feedback. The authors recommend a practical system for exchanging written student-professor communication using the Adobe PDF computer file format which provides a cost-effective solution to many course process problems inherent in distance education settings.

A Psychological Investigation Into The Literary Case Study Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson, Umma Khan

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Forming Strategic Alliances: Issues In Conceptualisation, Nagasimha Balakrishna Kanagal

IIMB Management Review

The interactive and interdependent economy of the present day is rooted in exchanges or 'give and take' of varying complexity. The process of conceptualising, planning and executing exchanges to the benefit of all players involved is basic to marketing. Given the three generic forms of economic organisation - market, hybrid and hierarchy, organisational expansions in high technology markets in recent times have witnessed the emergence of hybrid strategic alliances as an alternative to markets and hierarchies. Strategic alliances enable functional integration in inter-firm relationships involving tangible and intangible exchanges. Rapid technological innovations and technological complexity, and forces such as uncertainty, …

Castor Canadensis Winter 1999, Jed Smith Society

Castor Canadensis - Jedediah Smith Society

No abstract provided.

Stellar Angular Diameters Of Late-Type Giants And Supergiants Measured With The Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer, Tyler E. Nordgren, M. E. Germain, J. A. Benson, D. Mozurkewich, Jeffrey J. Sudol, N. M. Elias Ii, Arsen R. Hajian, N. M. White, D. J. Hutter, K. J. Johnston, F. S. Gauss, J. T. Armstrong, T. A. Pauls, L. J. Rickard

Physics & Engineering Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Editor's Notebook: The More Things Change, William C. Levin

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, December 1999

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Faculty Profile: Beverly Lovett

Bridgewater Review

Profile of Professor Beverly Lovett of the Social Work Department.

Swimming Against The Tide: Educational Late-Blooming In America, William C. Levin

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Flotsam And Jetsam - December 1999, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

Sport Diver Newsletters

Contents:

Housatonic Investigation..... p.22
Prehistoric Dugout Canoe..... p.26
Historic Ship Supply..... p.26
State House Project..... p.26
H.L. Hunley Update..... p.27
Le Prince Update..... p.27
Pimlico Shipwreck..... p.28
Student Intern..... p.28

Whalesong 1999-12-01 (V.21 No.4), N/A N/A

Whalesong

No abstract provided.

The Environment And Working Conditions In Juvenile Boot Camps And Traditional Facilities, Ojmarrh Mitchell, Doris Layton Mackenzie, Angela Gover, Gaylene Armstrong

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

This national study of juvenile correctional facilities compared the correctional environments of 25 juvenile boot camps to those of 22 traditional juvenile facilities. Data on perceived environmental conditions for juveniles and work climate for staff, as well as demographic characteristics, were collected from 1,233 juvenile correctional facility staff. While there was some regional variation, in comparison to staff employed in traditional juvenile correctional facilities, boot camp staff perceived the environmental conditions for juveniles as having significantly more activity, control, justice, structure, caring, and therapeutic programming, and believed that their releases were better prepared for the future. Boot staff also perceived …

Internally Constrained Mixtures Of Elastic Continua, Stephen M. Klisch

Mechanical Engineering

A treatment of internally constrained mixtures of elastic continua at a common temperature is developed. Internal constraints involving the deformation gradient tensors and the common mixture temperature are represented by a constraint manifold, and an internally constrained mixture of elastic continua is associated with each unique equivalence class of unconstrained mixtures. The example of intrinsic incompressibility of each constituent first proposed by Mills is discussed.

Math Department Newsletter, 1999, University Of Dayton. Department Of Mathematics

Department of Mathematics Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Symbolic Politics: Government's War Against The Working Class, Warren Charles Gregory

Dissertations

Symbolism and substance are essential parts of any political system. In our system of government, we typically think of symbolism as serving substantive ends. Using a triangulation of _methods (Participant Observation, Archival Data, and Documentary Evidence), the paper examines two cases (Social Security and criminal justice) and concludes that the mix between substance and symbolism has changed dramatically in recent years with symbolism now assuming the central role.

The current debates over Social Security funding and criminal justice sanctions, for example, are less about the concerns of old-age security or making the public safer as much as they reflect a …

臨床教學現況之省思, 培銘 楊

Journal of Medical Education

文章暫無收錄摘要

“臨床溝通演練”作爲醫學能識課程之檢討, 啓禎 林, 崑巖 黃

Journal of Medical Education

對人生與人性的關懷是一個醫病之間不可或缺的要素，而在醫學敎育裹，「視病猶親」不應是理念與口號，更需要從心靈的體會與誠摯的領悟去落實。成大醫學院的全人教育理念是「作一個良醫之前要先成功作人」，敎導醫師應該在祛病之外，更要醫心。為達此目地，將人文通識課程排在尚未開始接受任何醫學知識敎育的一、二年級，以期突顯其不可或缺的重要性，並達到所謂零歲敎育的效果。「臨床溝通演練」，只是一連串人文與通識課程中的其中一個，重點是讓醫學生提早體認溝通在醫病關係的重要性，並在心態與能力上都有所提升。藉著對其中一個年級的意見調查，只是對此課程與精神的檢討依據。結果發現，醫學生對課程了解及欣賞的程度與老師的用心指導與否與學生的個人努力程度皆密切相關。而學生在訪談病人與家屬的課題心得上產生很大的差異，是值得分析之處。所希望的是有相同理念的醫學敎育工作者，能夠不斷分享經驗，互通有無，以期可以在台灣每個醫學院都達到理想全人醫學敎育的境界。

臺灣地區醫師人力資源之分析與評估, 哲雄 蔡, 雁 黃

Journal of Medical Education

雖然醫師與人口的比例，因醫療科技及行爲的變遷而有不同的意義，但是，一般仍以此數字來分析不同國度的醫療普及度。根據台灣衛生署的資料顯示，目前台灣醫師與人口的比例爲1:845，爲達到醫療普及的政策目標，經建會期望在民國九十五年時將此比例提升爲1:741。此研究是假設台灣的醫學院畢業生人數維持不變，再依據人口統計推估三十年中的人口結構變化，來推算未來醫師／人口的比例。如果根據衛生署及醫師公會之統計數據分析，台灣醫師之平均執業年限估計値分別爲35年及45年，演算的結果爲：執業年限35年，則民國95年時可達到每名醫師服務740人口數；執業年限45年，則民國93年左右達到每名醫師服務740人口的目標。此推論可提供作爲將來是否增加醫學院學生之參考。

小組教學團體的建立與成員角色, 希平 陸

Journal of Medical Education

文章暫無收錄摘要

“人與醫學”實習心得(Ⅰ), 端瑩 張

Journal of Medical Education

文章暫無收錄摘要

Teaching At Medical School, Paul P. L. Chang

Journal of Medical Education

The 1910 Abraham Flexner recommendation,which changed medical education inAmerica,was introduced to Peking Union Medical College(PUMC)in 1917 when theschool was established with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.This same educationprinciple was adopted by National Taiwan University College of Medicine in the early1950s.The rapid advances in medical science have made it impossible to teach all theconcepts and topics in our curriculum.Even the experts have knowledge gaps in their specialties.Only the essential knowledge necessary to prepare the student for clinical problemsolving should be included in a digestible medical curriculum executed by the appropriateteaching methods.Information management is imperative to preserve our sanity.To practicemedicine,our students …

Teaching Of Bioethics And Training Of Socially Responsible Physicians, Michael Cheng-Tek Tai, Hsin-Chen Hsin, Ming-Been Lee

Journal of Medical Education

A superior physician is hard to come by.Modern society may have changed so muchthat such an expectation is regarded as unrealistic.Yet with physicians' traditional high socialstatus,medical education must set a noble goal to pursue.The question of whether aphysician can heal and in the meantime be concerned with social harmony and justicearises.It depends on the exemplary role of instructors and the content of the educationalprogram.Medical education is to pass on a humanized medicine so that medical studentsmay understand,experience and grasp the humanistic philosophy of medicine and thusestablish their own theories on values,ethical standards and eventually their own life philosophy.Only when we …

護理系在職進修班學生照護Hiv陽性患者意願之探討, 芸芳 蔡, 秉荃 熊

Journal of Medical Education

本研究的目的在了解護理系在職進修班學生對照護HIV陽性病患的知識、態度、主觀規範、護理照護能力及照護意願，並運用意願預测因子模式來探討護生的知識、態度、主觀規範及護理照護能力對其照護此類病患意願之影響。隨機抽取4所醫學院二技護理系的學生為研究對象，共收得有效問卷323份。結果顯示大多數的護生缺乏有關HIV的知識，對照護HIV陽性病患抱持中立略偏正向的態度，感受到其重要他人不支持他去照護HIV陽性病患，但認為自己具有照護HIV陽性病患之護理照護能力。護生亦表示些許的負向意願來照護HIV陽性病患。此外，態度越正向、越感受到重要他人支持的壓力及越認為自己具有護理照護能力的護生，越具有照護意願。以複迴歸分析來檢測預測因子模式，結果發現知識、態度、主觀規範及護理照護能力對於照護意願的解釋力為33％，但僅有態度以及主觀規範為主要的意願預測因子。因此，未來護理教育者可藉由改善護理系在職進修班學生對照護HIV陽性病患之態度及主觀規範，以提升其照護意願，進而改善HIV陽性病患之護理照護品質。

通識教育課程缺課原因之探討, 天鈞 張

Journal of Medical Education

通識敎育已成爲大學敎育重要的一環。本研究的主要目的爲瞭解通識敎育課程學生缺課之次數、動機，並提出改進的辦法。研究對象爲修「人與醫學」之醫學院學生253位，及修「醫學與生活」之非醫學院學生218位。「人與醫學」上課時間爲星期五下午一至三時，「醫學與生活」則爲星期三下午一至三時。期末測驗時，順便附上不記名之問卷調查，包括缺課幾次、缺課的理由、這堂課有否幫助，及建議如何改進會不缺課。結果顯示「人與醫學」課程有42％的學生在14次上課中缺課三次以上，而「醫學與生活」課程則有60％的學生在16次上課中缺課三次以上。另有考試要準備是很常見的缺課理由，在「人與醫學」高達32％，在「醫學與生活」則爲47％。另外比較常見的缺課理由在「人與醫學」以回家最多，而「醫學與生活」則是交通問题。認爲這堂課幫助很大或普通的人，於「人與醫學」爲70％，在「醫學與生活」則爲87％。在「人與醫學」方面，使課程内容生動有趣、生活化，更改上課時間及地點，是最重要的讓學生不缺課的方法。在「醫學與生活」，則使課程内容生活化、簡化及在台大羅斯福路校總區開課而不是在仁爱路醫學院上課，和點名是最重要的讓學生不缺課的方法。總之，通識敎育對學生是有幫助的，但受到重视的程度可能不如專業科目，因此採用較有趣生動、實用的敎學方式，並考慮學生上課的方便性，及安排適當的上課時間，可能是改善缺課情形的重要方法。

由醫學邏輯的觀點談疾病定義、分類、與因果關係, 希平 陸

Journal of Medical Education

醫學知識的累積，有極大的部份靠的具臨床的經驗與觀摩。由於醫學的不確定性本質，故長久以來經驗法則深植我們心中，而忽略了從基本道理去了解、分析的重要性。醫學邏輯即試圖以邏輯思考的方式探索許多醫學中的原理，藉由這種思考模式，可提供我們一個反向，從根本深究的思維。本文即藉由邏輯觀點來探討疾病的分類與因果關係的形成與分析。在往後我們對於醫學上有重大發現或突破時，這些觀念將對我們大有裨益。

病人與醫學教育：從被動的參與者到主動的分擔者, 義隆 連

Journal of Medical Education

病人在醫學生的敎育及訓練是不可或缺的，然而，他們的貢獻常常未能得到應有的重視。有關病人在醫學敎育中所佔的地位，文獻顯示：當體認到病人所提供的經驗及見解很有價値時，病人在醫學敎育中的地位也越顯得重要。病人在醫學敎育體系中，是深具潛力的，也是尚未被充分開發的重要敎學資源。爲使病人積極的參與醫學敎育，敎師必需在醫學生學習的環境中，使病人成爲參與敎學的重要成員，並賦予其有價値的角色。Hendry和他的同僚在其研究論文中指出：假如病人能以更主動的態度，加入醫學敎育的陣容中，並成爲課程的設計、執行及評估者，則病人對醫學敎育的重要性將不亞於專家學者，並對醫學生的訓練有積極的貢獻。