E-government facilitates provision of relevant government information in electronic form to the citizens in a timely manner and better service delivery to citizens. Information Technology today is recognized as an effective tool for turning the economic activity in efficient governance and in developing human resource. E-government is a kind of governmental administration which is based on ICT ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a mechanism to characterize websites, at the conceptualization stage, whose information content can be defined in terms of hybrid conceptual models. Usually in this type of website, some of the domain information units are modeled in terms of classes/entities while others remain as heterogeneous irregular elements. Websites built on this type of h...

Diversity, an important issue in higher education admission policy and practice, is addressed in this paper in terms of the construct’s conceptualization and measurement. Several measures of diversity are identified, and a commonly-used demographic measure based on racial classification is examined. Differences among undergraduate students’ diversity seeking behavior associated with living and ...

The science of health care improvement had advanced dramatically through the work of pioneers such as Avedis Donabedian and health care providers who championed systematic use of evidence-based medicine. This work helped lay the groundwork for an emerging body of consensus measures based on evidence that provided important tools for assessing the care delivered by health care providers. However...

Background and Objectives: The construct of spiritual intelligence (henceforth SI) encompasses some kind of adaptation and problem-solving behavior. SI also includes the highest levels of development in diverse cognitive, ethical, emotional, and interpersonal domains. The purpose of this study is thus to examine SI and learning style of high school students in Lamerd, Fars, Iran. Methods: The ...

The Office of Nursing Services of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) piloted implementation of the clinical nurse leader (CNL) into the care delivery model and established a strategic goal in 2011 to implement the CNL role across the VA health care system. The VA Office of Nursing Services CNL Implementation and Evaluation (CNL I&E) Service was created as one mechanism to facilitate that g...

Intact neurocognition has been posited as a necessary, but not sufficient prerequisite for efficient social cognition and metacognition in schizophrenia. Disorganized symptoms likely play a prominent role in these cognitive processes, given the detrimental effects of disorganization on one's ability to synthesize discrete information into an organized whole. However, the relationship between di...

Guie Dong,* Yu Liu,* Lei Zhang, Shuang Huang, Han-Fei Ding, and Zheng Dong Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Georgia Reagents University and Charlie Norwood Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia; Department of Nephrology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgia Reagents Un...

We used data from two pilot studies to compare the change in patients' self-reported health-related quality of life after participation in two nearly identical Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Blind Rehabilitation Center (BRC) programs, the Southwestern BRC in Tucson, Arizona, and the BRC at the VA hospital in Hines, Illinois. Researchers at the Southwestern BRC administered the National Eye...