CONTINUING FACTION AMONG NAGAS

Electronic cigarettes: fact and faction.

Predicting social influence with faction sizes and relative status.

Building on a recent theoretical development in the field of sociological social psychology, we develop a formal mathematical model of social influence processes. The extant theoretical literature implies that factions and status should have non-linear effects on social influence, and yet these theories have been evaluated using standard linear statistical models. Our formal model of influence ...

Finger dermatoglyphic variations in Rengma Nagas of Nagaland India.

The Rengma Nagas are one of the major Mongoloid tribal populations in the North-Eastern state of Nagaland in India. Population variation and sexual dimorphism in respect of finger dermatoglyphic characteristics in 207 adult individuals (104 males and 103 females) are reported in this present context. Frequency distribution of finger pattern types in different digits (both left and right sides c...

Continuing medical education and burnout among Danish GPs.

BACKGROUND There has been minimal research into continuing medical education (CME) and its association with burnout among GPs. AIM The aim of this study was to investigate the association between participating in CME and experiencing burnout in a sample of Danish GPs. DESIGN OF STUDY Cross-sectional questionnaire study. SETTING All 458 active GPs in 2004, in the County of Aarhus, Denmark ...

Current Continuing Professional Education Practice among Malaysian Nurses

Nurses need to participate in CPE to update their knowledge and increase their competencies. This research was carried out to explore their current practice and the future general needs for CPE. This cross-sectional descriptive study involved registered nurses from government hospitals and health clinics from Peninsular Malaysia. Multistage cluster sampling was used to recruit 1000 nurses from ...