AIMS We tested a modification of Leiter and Laschinger's Nursing Worklife Model by examining the impact of structural empowerment on professional work environment factors that lead to nursing job satisfaction. BACKGROUND The original model explains how five magnet hospital practice domains described by Lake (2002) interact to influence nurses' work lives by either contributing to or mitigatin...

The paper discusses the results of an action research to improve teaching practice which applied the philosophy of Knowledge – Experiential – Self-regulated (KES) at the Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The teaching and learning strategies were implemented to achieve the following objectives; (i) to enhance students’ mathematical competencies;...

As all technologies come to pass, change by innovation is needed both ways, exploiting current knowledge do better and exploring new differently. Due years of continuous improvement (CI), exploitation in production development rather well investigated, exploration less. It could be argued that not utilizing the potential explorative operator contributions a lost opportunity increase company’s c...

At present, three problems exist in searchable encryption cloud storage services: firstly, most traditional schemes only support single-keyword search while fail to perform Boolean searches; even if a few searching, the efficiency is also unsatisfactory. Secondly, existing do not dynamic keyword updates, so update low. Thirdly, cannot meet all demands of users, rankable searching over files acc...