(n.) Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul.
(n.) Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
(n.) Power; prerogative or attribute of office.
(n.) Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation.
(n.) A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect.
(n.) The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(2) Its articulation with content and process, the teaching strategies and learning outcomes for both students and faculty are discussed.
(3) Faculty and students would be communicating and hopefully fulfilling the needs of and responsibilities to each other.
(4) Twenty-five of the 29 eligible doctoral programs in nursing participated in the study; results are based on the responses of 326 faculty, 659 students, and 296 alumni.
(5) This descriptive research study used standardized and investigator-developed tests to examine acceptance of the computer by randomly selected administrators and faculty in private baccalaureate nursing programs.
(6) Study findings provide baseline data for decision making for nursing faculty and administrators.
(7) A survey of chairmen of United States departments of pathology (97% response rate) augmented with data from the Association of American Medical Colleges shows that roughly two thirds (65%) of departmental faculty are physicians, the great majority of whom are pathologists.
(8) This paper analyses the age structure of the pollenotics yearly examinated at the Allergology and Clinical Immunology Department of the Faculty Hospital at Olomouc.
(9) The authors conducted the course together and an atmosphere of intellectual honesty was developed through open discussion between faculty and students.
(10) After some sensitivity has developed, faculty can focus on rehabilitation theories and processes.
(11) The majority of students and clinical faculty believed the form was good to excellent in meeting their needs, in being useful in a variety of settings, in being applicable for both occupational therapy and occupational therapy assistant students, and in overall efficiency.
(12) The following criteria were used to document program enhancement after the implementation of a microcomputer laboratory: faculty and student attitudes toward computer-assisted instruction (CAI); student anxiety scores toward state board examinations; increased visibility of the college (number of authored CAI modules, CAI grants, computer committee memberships, faculty attendance at computer courses); and relationship involving learning style, attitude, and student learning.
(13) A medical faculty in a third world country is intended for whom and what should be its good?
(14) The findings can be a starting point for faculty-dean dialogue about tenure expections.
(15) By comparing success curves over the years, the various medical faculties were rated with a 'selectivity' score, indicating those significantly different from the national average.
(16) In the conclusion of the review the author presents his own experience with the organization of a MAB (mental anorexia--bulimia club) founded in 1989 at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Faculty of General Medicine, Charles University in Prague, attached to the Unit of specialized care of patients with psychogenic eating disorders.
(17) Since 1983, social scientists have collaborated with teaching staff at the Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia, to develop an integrated sociocultural curriculum for undergraduate students in community health.
(18) Faculty members are encouraged to provide an environment and means for nursing students to gain the skills necessary to professionalize human caring.
(19) Students, agency staff and program faculty found the internship a meaningful, consciousness-raising experience, and an excellent vehicle for preparing future physicians to interact with and care for their aged patients.
(20) The present situation is described, with specific reference to faculty, curriculum, and accreditation issues.
Intuition
Definition:
(n.) A looking after; a regard to.
(n.) Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; -- distinguished from "mediate" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension.
(n.) Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The proposition put forward in this paper is that standards of nursing practice can only be assured if the profession is able to find ways of responding to the intuitions and gut reactions of its practitioners.
(2) …" Platt: "Everything was intuitive, the way I met and hit the ball and then dropping to my knees.
(3) Intuitively, weight lost should be determined by the difference between the total energy consumed and the total energy expended.
(4) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
(5) What's more, she said several times, her intuition told her she was on the right path.
(6) Scale items that differed from the raters' intuition tended to be omitted more than others.
(7) In the process, however, we forgot about Huxley's intuition.
(8) The analysis of the relation of time and speed led Piaget to conclude that the time-speed confusion characterizing the intuitive stage undergoes development.
(9) Humanism is centred upon the agency of human individuality and subjective intuition, rather than on received ideas and authority.
(10) Essential traits of this personality are an independent mind capable of liberating itself from dogmatic tenets universally accepted by the scientific community; the capacity and courage to look at things from a new angle; powers of combination, intuition and imagination; feu sacré and perseverance--in short, intellectual as well as moral qualities.
(11) The doubts over what some see as Miliband's lack of presentational skills and "wonkiness" have, in part, been stilled by his flashes of courage and intuitive accord with the public mood – on Libor, on predatory capitalism, on Murdoch.
(12) A phenomenological approach permits to confirm the intuition of language in showing that the living experience of anguish is different from the one of anxiety.
(13) This controversy should be resolved in the light of fact, not intuition.
(14) The idea that huge, intractable social issues such as sexism and racism could be affected in such simple ways had a powerful intuitive appeal, and hinted at the possibility of equally simple, elegant solutions.
(15) It prevents him from attending to the slight promptings of his subconscious, and when these emotions and intuitions are not amplified by being brought into focus, he loses a sense of himself.
(16) Then it happened again … and again … and then we realised it was worldwide and curiously, and counter-intuitively, we calmed down.
(17) On intuitive grounds, many have felt that Hamilton's Rule, br greater than c, should describe the evolution of reciprocal altruism and "green beard" genes.
(18) If this ability has been considered only as an artful and intuitive process neither subjected to theoretical analysis nor to be captured in a formal quantitative model, now things have changed to such an extent that it becomes broadly shared that a science of medical decision making can be reasonably founded and this threefold: 1) Upon a formulated logic, 2) The probability theory, and 3) A value theory.
(19) (3) Intuitive judgments can be categorized by several, distinctive propositional beliefs from which the judgments are apparently derived.
(20) Decisions concerning the indications for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions must not be made by intuition but by professionally balancing the influencing factors such as psycho-social variables or marked deficits in mental, motor or sensory areas of the child's development.