... Critical Care Vol 12 No Ehrenstein issues that health care systems and individual institutions must address [10-13] However, the evidence suggests thatwe cannot assume that health care workers ... coworkers should remind us ofour professional obligations and enhance our willingness to fulfill those despite associated risks Otherwise, as the authors concluded, ‘influenza will run it s course ... respiratory syndrome and its impact on professionalism: qualitative study of physicians’ behaviour during an emerging healthcare crisis BMJ 2004, 329:83 Sokol DK: Virulent epidemics and scope of...
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... Validation • We share on Facebook in order to receive comments and likes • We post to Twitter with the hope of being re-tweeted, which in turn boosts our follower count • We upload to Flickr and ... BEGINNING Where did we come om? What follows is a brief history ofour bizarre journey from a web + UI boutique to a social networking service Iconfactory circa 1999 Inspired by Iconfactory’s Pixelpalooza, ... future web proclaimed by blogs, investors and so-called “social media gurus.” Weare the music makers, And weare the dreamers of dreams.” Wiiam Wonka FADS vs THE FUTURE Where arewe going? ...
... Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5Clinical Epidemiology; Department of Medicine, Centre for Best Practices, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, ... the ease with which the guideline can be employed Validity Evidence is summarized and presented such that its quantity and quality are apparent, and it can be easily reviewed, understood, and ... University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2Department of Oncology; Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 3Department of Medicine;...
... assemblies This process has the advantage of being able to assemble larger and larger DNA fragments until a genome is complete or close to complete He described howthis approach led to the assembly of ... era has revolutionized our understanding of microbiology, and it is very likely thatthis process will accelerate, as new technologies are being developed that allow even more rapid generation of ... more avenues of research We are, however, currently only taking snapshots, not yet making movies The challenge of the next decade will be to string all these pictures together, to really appreciate...
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... asking: ‘Where areour Bill Gates? Why don’t we have a flourishing venture capital industry? Howarewe ever goingto survive in a competitive world economy with our rigid, creativitystifling, ... it is difficult to discern any clear recent trends We noted in the first edition ofthis book a general long-term shift of emphasis from concern with initial training to mid-career training This ... generally deemed to mean ‘in keeping with the journalistic consensus’ So its major recent initiative has been its Business Career System promotion of white collar training courses leading to certification...
... 156 How the Japanes learn towork And ithasto be said that the guide itself neither makes any attempt to give an evalution of the courses it lists, nor makes any claims to have vetted its listings ... ground, however, in examining public expenditure on formal education Table 7.1 shows the distribution of total expenditure 162 How the Japanes learn towork (expenditure by schools, universities, ... the title of, say, Real Estate Journalist with the Patent Office and prevent anybody from using the term without authorization does not of itself endow it with any meaning or substance… That people...
... They are not designed to ensure that every barber remembers who Koch was; only to ensure that they are aware of the legal framework in which they work, are respectful of their ancestors’ work ... accumulating the knowledge which has provided them with the practical tools of their trade, are receptive to the fruits of possible further progress, and are accustomed to the idea that useful knowledge ... finding that three-quarters of all the worker respondents were involved in some kind of training activity There were, however, considerable differences between industries, with very much lower rates...
... 96 hours 96 hours 24 hours 96 hours 96 hours 48 hours 56 hours 40 hours 48 hours 64 hours 64 hours 120 hours A more common form of regular institutionalized training is the prepromotion course ... the grounds that the workers would enjoy learning to use it (Bhasanavich 1985) Small group work: Quality Circles As is by now well known, Quality Circles are not just about product quality, but ... associated with these tests is only about one-ninth of the total ¥800m paid out as out- of- hours study subsidies—a sum equivalent to million hours, or 62 hours a year per employee THE WORKER: COMMITMENT,...
... false egalitarianism of a career employment system One reflection 94 How the Japanes learn toworkofthis is to be found in the Ministry of Labour’s launch of its Business Career System initiative ... exploitative and barely short of fraudulent in their pursuit of profit, relying on recruiting none-too-choosy ‘might as well’ students (and often over-recruiting beyond the declared capacity on ... fictional division of the budget was to receive a subsidy of ¥2 1/2m, the total effect of which was to reduce the fees to be paid by all its 88 students by about per cent, to about ¥360,000 Even...
... Ministry of Labour also systematized the use of some of these correspondence courses as part of a newly created Business Career System, explicitly aimed at white collar workers White collar workers ... Ministry of Labour A major reason seems to be that the Ministry of Education exercises loose supervisory powers over senshu and kakushu schools, and no Ministry of Labour bureaucrat is goingto submit ... rehabilitation workers with the blind, etc —have been allowed or encouraged to claim senshu status The recent shift from public provision to public accreditation of vocational training courses has...
... they intend to go outtowork or go to university, to develop, through experiencing the pleasures of working and being of service to society, a desirable attitude towork and a career, so enhancing ... health workers and day-care centre workers Altogether there are about 120,000 students on vocational courses in 1985, about a third of the total enrolment in junior colleges Ithasto be said, however, ... one—making it possible to transfer to the third-year course of a four-year university It would have required too much dilution of the vocational content of their five-year course to make this acceptable...
... spirits suggest that genetics might have something to with it the effect of several generations of credential-meritocratic mobility and assortive mating The suspicion thatthis might be so make it ... they are unlikely to be in that top five per cent of scorers whose teachers would tell them they had a good chance ofgoing on from high school to a good national university It is obvious thatit ... of reaching the top But that is a special case, and in general, children who are good at maths will have to be quite single-minded to resist the assumption of teachers and parents that, of course,...
... capacity to take initiatives And in a Japan which hasnow caught up with the advanced industrial powers and nowhasto its own inventing, a Japan which has shown its material prowess and now feels ... own courses, and pupils who want to take an unintegrated mishmash of courses aregoingto be allowed to so The appeal to students and the effort to gain greater ‘parity of esteem’ seems to rest, ... into account when recruiting (top firms take only from top universities), and since the bias towards lifetime employment means thatHow the Japanes learn towork initial recruitment is recruitment...
... is no need to fit it into a system of ‘modules’ or ‘credits’ with each credit guaranteed to represent X contact hours and Y credits adding up to the qualification of MasterWhumpfer This results ... and now Professor, Obirin University, Tokyo Frank Langdon, Professor, Institute of International Relations, University of British Columbia, Canada Alan Rix, Professor of Japanese, The University ... show to government initiatives, and in the initiatives they take without prompting It is a factor in the response of the individual workers to enterprise Preface xiii programmes It is a factor,...
... basketball 39 I’m goingto take some photos 40 I’m goingto get married 41 I’m goingto ride a horse 42 I’m goingto upload some photos to a photosharing website 32 I’m goingto the washing (or ... I’m goingto mow the lawn 10 I’m going I’m goingtoto the my ironing homework (or write a letter) I’m goingto exercise (or some exercise) 21 I’m goingto buy new shoes 36 I’m goingto a Halloween ... 1 I’m goingto have fun I’m goingto ride an elephant I’m going (to go) shopping for clothes I’m going shopping /to the shopping I’m goingto hang out with friends I’m goingto see/watch...