The development of physical education programs in the Soviet Union is traced from pre-Revolution to the present. (JMF)

Explores why the trend in management teaching and research toward increased specialization and self-referential legitimation is ultimately self-defeating because the needs of the customers involved are changing from specialization to generalization. (EV)

Discusses the responsibilities of intellectuals. Reviews the historical background of the incongruities and tensions of the professional-and-intellectual. Argues that there are ways to expand beyond the contradictory position of professional-and-intellectual. (RS)

Thirty-eight endowed chairs in nursing are listed, with the institution, date of initial endowment, amount of the endowment, focus or specialization, and title provided. (MSE)

Examined hypothesis that relationship between congruent specialty choice within occupations and satisfaction exceeds relationship between congruent occupational choice and satisfaction. Responses from 324 engineers, physicians, nurses, teachers, policemen, biologists, lawyers, and psychologists to appropriate within-occupation interest inventories…

College majors of 13,871 medical school graduates were assigned Holland occupational codes. The resulting analysis showed that the majority of medical specialties and subspecialties attracted students from all personality types. (SK)

Discusses the history of physical education and presents ways to make physical education the renaissance field of the twenty-first century. Eight recommendations are discussed to help the field of physical education take advantage of its past accomplishments as it faces the future. (GLR)

Many areas of investing have become so specialized and complex that they need to be addressed by a special effort. Chief financial officers must evaluate whether that effort can be delivered by internal staff or whether an outside contractor is appropriate. Diagnostic questions for making that determination are offered. (MSE)

Discusses how new technologies and an emerging international preference for "original" American or British business qualifications threatens Australian programs. Concludes that programs should develop a specialized "antipodean" or uniquely Australian business education, allowing differentiation of Australian business programs…

Young adolescents (N=163) were administered a 23-item self-report inventory measuring antisocial behaviors. Results showed antisocial behavior to be multidimensional and to have different factor structures for males and females. The three factors accounting for the majority of variance in antisocial behavior are discussed in terms of…

Previous investigations comparing auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) to words whose meanings infants did or did not comprehend, found bilateral differences in brain activity to known versus unknown words in 13-month-old infants, in contrast with unilateral, left hemisphere, differences in activity in 20-month-old infants. We explore two…

The authors surveyed the faculty teaching in AACSB-accredited accounting programs and examined how their publication rates varied by years-after-completing-dissertation, professorial rank, major research area, type of degree-granting institution, and gender. Using standard statistical methods, the authors found that only…

The 2006 Education Act provided an entitlement for all 14 year-olds to take a specialist diploma from 2013. Despite concerns of many educationalists and politicians, the first diplomas will begin in September 2008. New Labour claims that the diplomas are innovative and challenging; however, this article argues that they exhibit many of the…

The activities of six physician specialties that care for patients with highly similar problems were compared. Factors that influence the doctor's tendency to treat more patients and to work more hours were also assessed, along with impacts of geographic factors on service delivery. Data were obtained from the Medical Activities and Manpower…

Summaries of Russian educational problems in higher education discussed include: ways to improve the interrelationships between education system and the production system; the population's need for higher education; the location of universities in Russia; and improving instruction in economics. (Author/RM)