scholarly journals Has the Time Come to Practice What We Teach?-The Teaching-Research Trade-Off-

1981 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daymon W. Thatch
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Opportunity Costs ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
External Forces

University teaching at an undergraduate level has always involved opportunity costs, especially in the trade-off of the individual's time between teaching and research. However, recent external forces, as we move into the ‘80's could very well force major changes in the Agricultural Economic's teaching profession. This paper examines the conventional wisdom that teaching and research are mutually reinforcing. It further examines conflict of goals and several of the economic principles that we teach but seem to ignore in addressing our personal trade-off between teaching and research. A framework is presented for resolving this conflict.

scholarly journals The Uncertainty Trade-off: Reexamining Opportunity Costs and War

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 1025-1034 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Spaniel ◽  
Iris Malone
Keyword(s):  
International Conflict ◽  
Order Effect ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Economic Interdependence ◽  
Opportunity Costs ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Indian Relations

Abstract Conventional wisdom about economic interdependence and international conflict predicts that increasing opportunity costs make war less likely, but some wars occur after costs grow. Why? We develop a model that shows that a nonmonotonic relationship exists between the costs and probability of war when there is uncertainty over resolve. Under these conditions, increasing the costs of an uninformed party's opponent has a second-order effect of exacerbating informational asymmetries about that opponent's willingness to maintain peace. We derive conditions under which war can occur more frequently and empirically showcase the model's implications through a case study of Sino-Indian relations from 1949 to 2007. This finding challenges how scholars traditionally believe economic interdependence mediates incentives to fight: instruments such as trade have competing effects on the probability of war.

scholarly journals Automation, evolution or revolution

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul Deschênes
Keyword(s):  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Research

Summary In this article, the author analyses certain consequences of automation and its influence on university teaching and research.

scholarly journals Rev Rene completes 15 years: victories and new challenges

Rev Rene ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 460
Author(s):  
Maria de Nazaré De Oliveira Fraga
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Section Editor ◽  
Health Area ◽  
New Challenges

There are times when we do not know which words to use. They throw themselves on paper, some or many of them without knowing exactly what will result, as a call for help on what they can show. So simple, so flexible, so hard, so complex they are. The request to write an editorial for the Rene Journal gave me the wheel of time. I’m retired of University teaching and research for a decade and a half. I was editor in chief and also section editor in the mental health area of this journal. So I have a lot to remember.

scholarly journals High monetary reward rates and caloric rewards decrease temporal persistence

2017 ◽  
Vol 284 (1849) ◽  
pp. 20162759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bowen J. Fung ◽  
Stefan Bode ◽  
Carsten Murawski
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Monetary Reward ◽  
Positive Energy ◽  
Opportunity Costs ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Reward Rate ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
Monetary Rewards ◽  
Positive Energy Balance ◽  
Temporal Persistence

Temporal persistence refers to an individual's capacity to wait for future rewards, while forgoing possible alternatives. This requires a trade-off between the potential value of delayed rewards and opportunity costs, and is relevant to many real-world decisions, such as dieting. Theoretical models have previously suggested that high monetary reward rates, or positive energy balance, may result in decreased temporal persistence. In our study, 50 fasted participants engaged in a temporal persistence task, incentivised with monetary rewards. In alternating blocks of this task, rewards were delivered at delays drawn randomly from distributions with either a lower or higher maximum reward rate. During some blocks participants received either a caloric drink or water. We used survival analysis to estimate participants' probability of quitting conditional on the delay distribution and the consumed liquid. Participants had a higher probability of quitting in blocks with the higher reward rate. Furthermore, participants who consumed the caloric drink had a higher probability of quitting than those who consumed water. Our results support the predictions from the theoretical models, and importantly, suggest that both higher monetary reward rates and physiologically relevant rewards can decrease temporal persistence, which is a crucial determinant for survival in many species.

University Efficiency: Complementariness versus Trade-off between Teaching, Research and Administrative Activities

2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Sellers-Rubio ◽  
Francisco J. Mas-Ruiz ◽  
Ana B. Casado-Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Trade Off ◽  
Teaching Research

Teaching Research and Statistics at Undergraduate Level: The RDA Tutorial Programme

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 368-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumaya Laher ◽  
Nicky Israel ◽  
Michael Pitman
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Teaching Research

The construction of a Practice-Teaching-Research (PTR) model for the accomplishments of college interpreting teachers in China

Babel ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 604-618
Author(s):  
Zhifeng Kang ◽  
Ying Shi
Keyword(s):  
Transition Period ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Teacher Teams ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
New Era ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Practice Teaching

Abstract This article focuses on the issues of unclear self-positioning, vague objectives and unbalanced factors among the interpreting practice (IP), interpreting teaching (IT) and interpreting research (IR) of interpreting teachers in Chinese colleges. Based on the research thread of diachronic and synchronic development in the accomplishments of college interpreting teachers’ in China, and the approach to analysing the three dimensions of practice, teaching and research, this study investigates interpreting teachers at five universities in Shanghai. Based on the investigation in Shanghai, this study puts forward a Practice-Teaching-Research (PTR) model as a three-in-one approach to cultivating comprehensive interpreting teachers’ positioning and strategies in the transition period. It constructs Overall Interpreting (OI) = Interpreting Practice (IP) + Interpreting Teaching (IT) + Interpreting Research (IR), OI=IP+IT+IR as the formula, which is the realization of constructing a PTR model as a three-in-one approach for college interpreting teachers in China. This study has a certain guiding significance in the new era for setting up college interpreting teacher teams and improving their accomplishments in China.

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