When is mortality risk determined? Historical insights into a current debate

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. KUH ◽  
G. D. SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
A Current

When is mortality risk determined? Historical insights into a current debate

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
DIANA KUH ◽  
GEORGE DAVEY SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
A Current

scholarly journals SPEAKING – WRITING MODE: STRATEGIES IN TRANSFORMING SPOKEN AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Siska Amelia Maldin
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Written Production ◽  
Good Writing ◽  
A Current

There is a tendency of cases in transforming spoken and written language. A current debate was proposed about the role. This debate derives from current phenomenon which shows evidence which is related with learner mastery in the particular skills. Some learners are able to produce spoken form of language fluently, however, when it comes to writing, it is seen that they find difficulties and get disturbance to put down ideas and elaborate the ideas into a good writing.  Hence, two questions arise. First, to what extent is the nature of spoken and written language? Second, what are strategies to help learners in transforming their spoken language to the written production? Therefore, this article is proposed to explain the nature of spoken and written language and present any strategies to help learners in transforming their spoken language into the written forms.

Prenatal and genetic diagnostics and trisomia 21: a current debate of ethical and psychosocial implications with reference to Greece

2019 ◽  
pp. 369-380
Author(s):  
Gerasimos Kolaitis ◽  
Stelios Christogiorgos ◽  
Vassiliki Vassilopoulou ◽  
Eugenia Soumaki ◽  
John Tsiantis
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diagnostics ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Psychosocial Implications ◽  
A Current

Entrepreneurial Orientation in Family Firms: Looking at a European Outermost Region

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (04) ◽  
pp. 441-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duarte Pimentel ◽  
João Pedro Couto ◽  
Marc Scholten
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Family Participation ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Business Context ◽  
The Family ◽  
A Current

This study addresses a current debate in the family business literature involving the extent to which the family business context hinders or promotes entrepreneurial behavior. The empirical evidence is provided by 155 small-sized firms, 82 family-controlled and 73 nonfamily-controlled, operating in an outermost region, the Autonomous Region of the Azores. This study analyzes the differences between family and nonfamily firms in regard to entrepreneurial orientation and how it is influenced by family participation. Results show that there are differences in entrepreneurship orientation and in two of its three dimensions, while revealing that family participation is negatively associated with entrepreneurial orientation and its three dimensions.

scholarly journals Performance trade-offs and ageing in the ‘world's greatest athletes’

2017 ◽  
Vol 284 (1860) ◽  
pp. 20171048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Careau ◽  
Robbie S. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Human Performance ◽  
Elite Athletes ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Physical Traits ◽  
A Current

The mechanistic foundations of performance trade-offs are clear: because body size and shape constrains movement, and muscles vary in strength and fibre type, certain physical traits should act in opposition with others (e.g. sprint versus endurance). Yet performance trade-offs are rarely detected, and traits are often positively correlated. A potential resolution to this conundrum is that within -individual performance trade-offs can be masked by among -individual variation in ‘quality’. Although there is a current debate on how to unambiguously define and account for quality, no previous studies have partitioned trait correlations at the within- and among-individual levels. Here, we evaluate performance trade-offs among and within 1369 elite athletes that performed in a total of 6418 combined-events competitions (decathlon and heptathlon). Controlling for age, experience and wind conditions, we detected strong trade-offs between groups of functionally similar events (throwing versus jumping versus running) occurring at the among-individual level. We further modelled individual (co)variation in age-related plasticity of performance and found previously unseen trade-offs in throwing versus running performance that manifest through ageing. Our results verify that human performance is limited by fundamental genetic, environmental and ageing constraints that preclude the simultaneous improvement of performance in multiple dimensions. Identifying these constraints is fundamental to understanding performance trade-offs and predicting the ageing of motor function.

scholarly journals Qualitative Analysis of Students’ Evaluations – The Case of the South East European University (SEEU) in North Macedonia

SEEU Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-20
Author(s):  
Irena Gjerasimovska ◽  
Abdylmenaf Bexheti ◽  
Veronika Kareva ◽  
Gadaf Rexhepi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Evaluations ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
The South ◽  
Student Evaluations Of Teaching ◽  
Data Set ◽  
East European ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
European University ◽  
A Current

Abstract The use of student evaluations of teaching (SET) has become a widespread practice in higher education despite inconclusive evidence reported in the literature around its validity. Not surprisingly, the question of the validity of SET continues to be a current debate in higher education, pointing to the need for more research in this area. This paper is a part of a larger scale study, which aims to contribute to broadening the knowledge and understanding of SET validity by analysing the process within the South East European University (SEEU) in North Macedonia in order to determine whether student evaluations are objective and critical. A likert scale questionnaire, containing 9 questions, was designed for the purpose of the analysis. The questionnaire was sent to all students from the five (5) Faculties: Business and Economics, Law, Contemporary Sciences and Technologies, Contemporary Social Sciences and Faculty of Languages, Cultures and Communications, in both campuses, Tetovo and Skopje. Three hundred and thirty three (333) students participated in the survey. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used for analysing the results. Findings revealed that the information students received about the reputation, experience and qualifications of the professors had the highest influence on their perceptions, which in turn influenced the evaluations. As an addition, the present paper also compares two methods on a data set of actual SET. For illustrative purposes, only data from one faculty have been analysed. It is shown that the traditional method of considering the average values can misrepresent a teacher’s performance as it can be highly sensitive to any extreme grades, being either very positive or very negative.

scholarly journals Sentrum og snikksnakk. Luther i bruk - i samfunn og skole

Prismet ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 245-260
Author(s):  
Per Anders Aas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
Common Relevance ◽  
A Current

Approaching the 500-year Reformation anniversary, the article discusses what might legitimize Luther as a topic in today’s society and educational practice. Are his crucial ideas an exclusively religious heritage, or could they be converted to issues of common relevance? Referring to the ways Luther was used by the GDR state and church in the 1983 anniversary, the article questions the potential for recontextualizing his specifically theological issues. By this, it relates to a current debate in religion didactics whether stories could be taught according to their religiously specific or universal, existential dimensions – cf. the question of learning about or from religion. The cultural and political impact of Luther’s theology obviously makes it relevant as common heritage. His theological issue, however – man’s lack of free will (De servo arbitrio), and his view on «theological man» as defined solely by God’s justification (De homine), which Luther considers to be his primary concern – appears to be counter-intuitive, i.e. different from what seems right or natural. Hence, it challenges the concept of cultural heritage, but proves a critical corrective to common, essentialist justifications of human dignity, cultural identity and superiority – which makes it an issue to be learnt from and not only about.Emneord: Luther, reformasjonen, kulturarv, fagdidaktikk, religionsdidaktikk.

This Obscure Thing Called Transparency

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Media ◽  
International Experts ◽  
A Current

Transparency is the metaphor of our time. Whether in government or corporate governance, finance, technology, health or the media – it is ubiquitous today, and there is hardly a current debate that does not call for more transparency. But what does this word actually stand for and what are the consequences for the life of individuals? Can knowledge from the arts, and its play of visibility and invisibility, tell us something about the paradoxical logics of transparency and mediation? This Obscure Thing Called Transparency gathers contributions by international experts who critically assess the promises and perils of transparency today.

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