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In the PERT network are specified sets of behavior within a project.  

In education, a person who believes that meaning in learning stems from active experience of the learner and that this experience is a continuous flow of complicated and integrated responses to the learning process, activism.  

In educational philosophy, the belief that activity is fundamental to the learning process since it is the basis of reality. Truth is tested through action, and the learner is naturally biologically active. Emphasis is placed on an active learner-centered curriculum pedagogy of action.  

The words that a person actually uses in speech, passive vocabulary. Words that a child can use independently in speaking or writing, as opposed to the passive vocabulary of words he or she can recognize or understand only in context in reading matter. Because children, like adults, always understand much more than they can express,…

A curriculum design in which the interests of, and learning purposes for learners determine the educational program characterized by teachers and learners working together to select goals and objectives and to plan activities.  

In reference to hospitals, the hospital staff position held by physicians who spend much of their time in the hospital setting admitting patients, serving on hospital committees, and exercising their voting rights relative to hospital policy and operations.  

A stage of sleep during which the EEG is similar to that of waking, during which there are rapid eye movements and during which dreams occur.  

In psychiatry, the acute phase of schizophrenia in which prominent symptoms such as delusions hallucinations and thought disorders are present.  

A model of the practitioner patient relationship that occurs when the patient is unable, because of a medical condition, to participate in his or her own care and to make decisions for his or her own welfare.  

In a pharmacological preparation, the chemical substance that is responsible for the effects of a drug or medicine.