Abstract Employee ratings play a pivotal role in the domain of industrial and organizational psychology. Employee ratings serve the core purposes of feedback, personnel review and promotion. However, these ratings are immensely affected by gender role stereo types. This paper analyses how the gender gap does affect performance evaluations and […]

Developing a Professional Portfolio in Nursing Marilyn H. Oermann A professional portfolio is a collection of care fully selected materials that document the nurse’s competencies and illustrate the expertise of the nurse. Since a portfolio is developed over time, it also provides a way of monitoring professional development. By periodically […]

Ammonia oxidation Why is nitrogen important to living systems? How are these metabolic pathways similar to photosynthesis? From the Urakawa et al. (2012) paper: Why was nitrite production used to measure the activity of the microbes in the study? What is a bioassay? Why did the scientists use it in […]

Fire Prevention Budget Paper instructions: You are the fire chief and have been asked to cut the fire prevention budget. You disagree with this decision. How will you defend not making the cut? Give three specific reasons, and back them up with evidence from your textbook. Your response should be […]