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Teaching Of Human Physiology As It Relates To Changes In Medical Education:An Asian Perspective Based On The Yin-Yang Principle, Chiu-Yin Kwan Dec 2002

Teaching Of Human Physiology As It Relates To Changes In Medical Education:An Asian Perspective Based On The Yin-Yang Principle, Chiu-Yin Kwan

Journal of Medical Education

From a clinical perspective, the understanding of human health is evolving with not only the continuing expansion and emergence of new knowledge in bio-logical sciences that are relevant to medicine, but also with the ever increasingly complexity of the environment that affects people's health, including the political, social and economic factors which govern the population and behavioral perspectives of medicine. Conceivably, the concept of human health/illnesses and the art/science of healing may also change in response to the environmental factors that are evolving with the progression of technology and human civilization. It is inevitable that the approach and methods in …

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Teaching Physiology In The New Medical Curriculum At The University Of Hong Kong, Iain C. Bruce, Tak-Ming Wong Dec 2002

Teaching Physiology In The New Medical Curriculum At The University Of Hong Kong, Iain C. Bruce, Tak-Ming Wong

Journal of Medical Education

The University of Hong Kong Medical School adopted a new curriculum in 1997, taking a problem-based learning and integrative approach that includes both basic sciences and clinical aspects. The impact of the new curriculum on the teaching and learning of physiology has been twofold. Firstly, only those lectures and practicals in physiology that were considered relevant to the PBL cases were retained. Secondly, clinical aspects, namely diagnosis and treatment of disease, are now included in the teaching and learning during the first two years. There is concern that, at the end of the second year, students from the new curriculum …

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Changing Trends In The Teaching Of Physiology In Malaysian Medical Schools, Hla Yee Yee, Gregory J.S Tan Dec 2002

Changing Trends In The Teaching Of Physiology In Malaysian Medical Schools, Hla Yee Yee, Gregory J.S Tan

Journal of Medical Education

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Problem-Based Learning:Impact And Implementation In A Workshop Setting, Ann Jervie Sefton, Chiu-Yin Kwan Dec 2002

Problem-Based Learning:Impact And Implementation In A Workshop Setting, Ann Jervie Sefton, Chiu-Yin Kwan

Journal of Medical Education

In this paper we report on two successful teaching workshops held before and after the meeting of the Federation of Asian and Oceanean Physiological Societies (FAOPS) in Kuala Lumpur in September 2002. The paper is structured to reflect the sequence of sessions during the workshops and expands information on the topics raised. Overall, the sessions modelled the processes of problem-based learning (PBL) approaches. Participating teachers were diverse. They reflected differences in national backgrounds, experiences of teaching workshops generally, and familiarity with concepts of PBL in particular. Two thirds of the participating teachers had some prior experience teaching in small group …

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參與2002年加拿大Mcmaster大學Pbl護理教學研習會之省思, 佩芬 穆, 淑貞 蕭 Dec 2002

參與2002年加拿大Mcmaster大學Pbl護理教學研習會之省思, 佩芬 穆, 淑貞 蕭

Journal of Medical Education

為培養護理人員面對新世紀多元的健康議題與需求之挑戰，並能提供優質之護理服務，多所護理學校正積極進行教育改革，本文為作者參與2002年7月至8月於加拿大McMaster大學之暑期PBL護理教學研習會後，對學習內容及經驗進行對話省思，以錄音方式進行並將內容分析及評論有關PBL推行之議題所做的整理。分析結果共包括八大議題：（1）課程規劃需有系統，並基於護理教育的理念、（2）重視學生特質與主動學習（3）教師可在與學生互動中促進雙方身心靈的成長、（4）教學資源可充實學生主動學習能力、（5）評值方式的回饋，可引導學生自我成長、（6）師資培育與激勵策略、（7）行政組織的功能及支援，及（8）以研究精鍊PBL教育方法之應用。此結果之分享可作為護理教育者於推動PBL學習法時於結構面、過程面的參考。

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神經放射線學教學經驗, 戊忠 沈 Dec 2002

神經放射線學教學經驗, 戊忠 沈

Journal of Medical Education

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Journal of Medical Education

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Letter From The Editors, Allan Young Dec 2002

Letter From The Editors, Allan Young

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures seeks to extend the focus of its predecessor, The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, to emphasize the multidisciplinary nature of entrepreneurship. Accordingly, The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures seeks submissions from all areas which focus on entrepreneurship. Our breadth extends both to the practical and the theoretical foundations of the field. We plan to publish both discursive and empirical treatments as well as instructionally oriented issues.

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Closely Held Firms As Going Concerns, Michael S. Long, Stephan E. Sefcik Dec 2002

Closely Held Firms As Going Concerns, Michael S. Long, Stephan E. Sefcik

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

This current GAAP determination of a going concern is shortsighted for two important reasons. The most important deals with creditors and other stakeholders involved with the business. Do they enter into contracts with the business or with the individual owner/manager? Currently, they contract with both since, in reality, they make no determination whether a separate firm (entity) exists. The second deals with valuing a business. If the business is not really a separate going concern, it would typically be valued as the sum of its individual assets instead of the present value of its future cash flows. Many times when …

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Small Firm Use Of Debt: An Examination Of The Smallest Small Firms, Susan Coleman Dec 2002

Small Firm Use Of Debt: An Examination Of The Smallest Small Firms, Susan Coleman

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Access to capital is an on-going challenge for small firms. Capital is required to address a broad range of needs: to cover start-up costs, to provide working capital, to secure facilities or equipment, and to hire employees. Most small firms are at a relative disadvantage, because they are too small to access the public debt and equity markets. Similarly, they are typically too small to show up on the radar screens of venture capitalists on patrol for the next potential hot IPO. Alternatively, very small firms are heavily reliant on bank loans, trade credit, and informal sources of capital including …

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Inter-Firm Networking Propensity In Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises (Smes), Jean-Marie Nkongolo-Bakenda Dec 2002

Inter-Firm Networking Propensity In Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises (Smes), Jean-Marie Nkongolo-Bakenda

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

In the past decade, market globalization has not only been a threat for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), but also an opportunity to expand their activities in many countries (Murphy and al., 1991). In fact, some of SMEs are worldwide leaders in their sectors (Simon, 1990; Entreprise, 1995). Moreover, few of these worldwide SME leaders started businesses directly on an international level (Christensen, 1991; Brush, 1992; McDougall and al., 1994). This suggests that these SMEs use many processes to overcome resource and competency constraints, which would otherwise impede the success of a transnational business in the new global environment (Barlett …

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation And Growth: The David-Goliath Symbiosis, William J. Baumol Dec 2002

Entrepreneurship, Innovation And Growth: The David-Goliath Symbiosis, William J. Baumol

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Investment in innovation in industrialized economies increasingly is taken over by large firms that operate their own R&D divisions and transform technological change into a routine bureaucratized process. Powerful competitive forces require firms to do this for survival. But such routinized innovation has not replaced the individual independent innovator, the traditional source of technical change. The latter have tended to provide the more revolutionary breakthroughs, to which corporate research has added reliability, enhanced power and ease of utilization. Thus, both make a vital contribution to growth. While the results of big business research are often less spectacular, they have typically …

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Collegiate Athletic Directors As Entrepreneurs, Michael A. Leeds Dec 2002

Collegiate Athletic Directors As Entrepreneurs, Michael A. Leeds

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

One can define entrepreneurship, at its most basic level, as rent-seeking behavior. This behavior can be productive, as when firms innovate to create new or better products or when they enter a market to increase output where price exceeds marginal cost. Rent-seeking can also be unproductive, particularly when it interfaces with the public sector. In such cases, firms may try to create or preserve rents by securing monopoly power from the government. Traditionally, economists have analyzed rent-seeking behavior solely in the private and government sectors of the economy. I extend the concept to the not-for-profit sector, in particular to the …

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Small Business Financing: Differences Between Young And Old Firms, Alicia M. Robb Dec 2002

Small Business Financing: Differences Between Young And Old Firms, Alicia M. Robb

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Financial capital is necessary not only for business formation but also for business survival and expansion: its role is well documented in the literature. While venture capital and IPOs often make the popular press, the fact is most firms are unable to tap into this market. Instead, they depend on owner equity, other private equity, and debt financing. Survey data from the Federal Reserve Board allow an in depth look at the patterns of small business financing in the late nineties. Evidence suggests that debt financing for small businesses was extremely important, especially for young firms.

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Letter From Guest Editor Yochanan Shachmurove, Yochanan Shachmurove Dec 2002

Letter From Guest Editor Yochanan Shachmurove, Yochanan Shachmurove

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Whereas the last issue of the journal concentrated more on entrepreneurial finance, this issue presents a few studies concentrating on business ventures in the United States, the emerging Polish economy and the developed economy of Italy. Small firms are a powerful economic force in the economies of the United States, Italy and Poland. According to the United States Small Business Administration (SBA), small firms are defined as those having 500 or fewer employees. Firms of this size represent 99 percent of all firms in the U.S. These business ventures generate the majority of net new jobs and are a major …

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Consumer Behavior Under The Influence Of Terrorism Within The United States, Lawrence R. Klein, Suleyman Ozmucur Dec 2002

Consumer Behavior Under The Influence Of Terrorism Within The United States, Lawrence R. Klein, Suleyman Ozmucur

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Many indicators are helpful in improving statistical performance for forecasting and policy analysis. We do believe, however, no single indicator (or type of indicator) can do the necessary work by itself. Any new finding is likely to make a better contribution in combination with others that have been found to be useful. Timeliness, flexibility, and foresight are important properties of indicators, and we are especially interested in information that reflects subjective feelings of participants in the economy. Results of surveys covering consumers, producers or managers are useful in forecasting major macroeconomic variables, like personal consumption expenditures and personal income. Preliminary …

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New Bank Start-Ups: Entrepreneurs Funding Other Entrepreneurs, Robert Deyoung Dec 2002

New Bank Start-Ups: Entrepreneurs Funding Other Entrepreneurs, Robert Deyoung

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

There has traditionally been a symbiotic link between new business ventures and new banking ventures. This article finds that the traditional link between small businesses and small banks – the small business loan – has weakened in recent years. While new banks have intensified their reliance on small business customers, small business borrowers have become less reliant on small banks for their credit needs. These findings are consistent with rapid changes in the structure of the banking industry, financial instruments and markets, and communications and information technology over the past two decades.

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Entrepreneurship, Firm Size And The Structure Of The Italian Economy, Pellegrino Manfra Dec 2002

Entrepreneurship, Firm Size And The Structure Of The Italian Economy, Pellegrino Manfra

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Since World War II, Italy's economic growth has been one of the highest in the world. The objective of this study is to examine the structure of the Italian economy and causes of this growth. It was found that small and medium-sized firms, most of them family-owned, have been the dynamic force behind the country?s extraordinary economic performance. The vital role of the family and that of the entrepreneur – as the supreme spirit of enterprise and initiative - has been paramount in this process. Production by small and medium-sized firms have concentrated in a specific geographical area called “industrial …

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Borrowing Patterns For Small Firms: A Comparison By Race And Ethnicity, Susan Coleman Dec 2002

Borrowing Patterns For Small Firms: A Comparison By Race And Ethnicity, Susan Coleman

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

This article explores the use of debt capital by small firms using data from the 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances. An examination of the data reveals differences in the characteristics and borrowing experience of small firms by race and ethnicity. Results indicate that although minority firm owners were just as likely to apply for loans, they were significantly less likely to be approved for them. Further, black small business owners were less likely to even bother applying for a loan, because they assumed they would be denied. These findings have implications for the ability of minority small business owners …

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Dynamic Yield Analysis And Enhancement Of Fpga Reconfigurable Memory Systems, Minsu Choi, Nohpill Park Dec 2002

Dynamic Yield Analysis And Enhancement Of Fpga Reconfigurable Memory Systems, Minsu Choi, Nohpill Park

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper addresses the issues of field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) reconfigurable memory systems with faulty physical memory cells and proposes yield measurement techniques. Static yield (i.e., the yield which does not take into account the inherited redundancy utilization for repair) and dynamic yield (i.e., the yield which takes into account the inherited redundancy utilization for repair) of FPGA reconfigurable memory systems and their characteristics are extensively analyzed. Yield enhancement of conventional memory systems relies on additional redundancy, but FPGA reconfigurable memory systems have inherited redundancy and customizability. Thus, they can accommodate numerous target memory configurations, and redundant memory cells, …

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Electrical Properties Of Srbi₂Ta₂O₉ Ferroelectric Thin Films At Low Temperature, Pingxiong Yang, David L. Carroll, John Ballato, Robert W. Schwartz Dec 2002

Electrical Properties Of Srbi₂Ta₂O₉ Ferroelectric Thin Films At Low Temperature, Pingxiong Yang, David L. Carroll, John Ballato, Robert W. Schwartz

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The temperature dependence of electrical properties for SrBi2Ta2O9 thin film capacitors with platinum electrodes (Pt/SBT/Pt) on silicon wafers was studied from 10 to 300 K. with a decrease in temperature from 300 to 200 K, the remanent polarization of the thin films shows about an 11% reduction from its 300 K value; however, it is reduced by about 87% reduction from its 200 K value when the temperature drops from 200 to 100 K. with a decrease to 200 K, the polarization fatigue was significant, and the capacitor shows an approximate 29% reduction in polarization from its initial value following …

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Shedding Rights, Shredding Rights: A Critical Examination Of Students' Privacy Rights And The Special Needs Doctrine After Earls, Meg Penrose Dec 2002

Shedding Rights, Shredding Rights: A Critical Examination Of Students' Privacy Rights And The Special Needs Doctrine After Earls, Meg Penrose

Faculty Scholarship

On June 27, 2002, the United States Supreme Court held that all students participating in extracurricular activities in public schools may be subjected to random, suspicionless drug testing. The holding, in itself, is not terribly remarkable, as the decision in Board of Education of I.S.D. 92 of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma v. Earls follows a developing pattern among public schools in this country. Further, the Earls case simply broadens the right of the state to randomly drug test students, without individualized suspicion, that this same court announced a mere seven years earlier in Vernonia v. Acton. What is remarkable about …

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Seton Hall Legislative Bureau - Vol. 27, No. 1 2002 Dec 2002

Seton Hall Legislative Bureau - Vol. 27, No. 1 2002

Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy

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Administrative Unfeasibility: The Torricelli Replacement Case And The Creation Of A New Election Law Standard, William E. Baroni Jr. Dec 2002

Administrative Unfeasibility: The Torricelli Replacement Case And The Creation Of A New Election Law Standard, William E. Baroni Jr.

Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy

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Equalizing Workers In Ties And Coveralls: Removal Of The White-Collar Exemption To The Fair Labor Standards Act, Michael Cicala Dec 2002

Equalizing Workers In Ties And Coveralls: Removal Of The White-Collar Exemption To The Fair Labor Standards Act, Michael Cicala

Seton Hall Journal of Legislation and Public Policy

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Bridgewater Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, December 2002 Dec 2002

Bridgewater Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, December 2002

Bridgewater Review

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Hyperprolactinemia, Dannielle Braund Dec 2002

Hyperprolactinemia, Dannielle Braund

Honors Theses

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Review Of Hitler And The Power Of Aesthetics, Michael F. Russo Dec 2002

Review Of Hitler And The Power Of Aesthetics, Michael F. Russo

Faculty Publications

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A Case Study Of A Currency Of Crisis: The Russian Default Of 1998, Abigail J. Chiodo, Michael T. Owyang Dec 2002

A Case Study Of A Currency Of Crisis: The Russian Default Of 1998, Abigail J. Chiodo, Michael T. Owyang

Documents

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Tectonic And Climatic Evolution Of The Arabian Sea Region: An Introduction, Peter D. Clift, Dick Kroon, Christoph Gaedicke, Jonathan Craig Dec 2002

Tectonic And Climatic Evolution Of The Arabian Sea Region: An Introduction, Peter D. Clift, Dick Kroon, Christoph Gaedicke, Jonathan Craig

Faculty Publications

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