The 30-year experience from the Software Measurement field explains that a strong resistance usually comes from project team members, supposing the real objective is a personal evaluation on their performance and not a neutral measurement for a concrete process improvement. Concurrently, from the middle ‘80s a series of SPI models such as the Software Capability Maturity Model (Sw-CMM) and nowa...

INTRODUCTION Intra-articular knee fractures in children are rare. The Patient Compensation Association (PCA) receives claims for financial compensation from patients who believe they have sustained damage from their treatment in the health care system. We used relevant cases of closed claims to identify causality and co-factors contributing to these apparent malpractices. MATERIALS AND METHOD...

In this paper, we focus on the multiple mechanisms through which the government exerts influence on the environmental performances of listed firms in China. Theoretically, we explore how multifaceted demands of a state affects corporate environmental practices in dissimilar ways. We unpack two types of influences from the state, including conflicting demands from multiple hierarchical levels of...

In recent years, ubiquitous computing technologies have been applied in the field of medicine. Especially radio frequency identification (RFID) and small sensor networks could provide information about medical practices and patient status in order to prevent malpractices and improve the quality of medical care. As an example of this application, we developed a new system, named "a smart stretch...

INTRODUCTION The safety of medicine is essential for the safety of patients. Inappropriate drug storage, expiration dates, sharing prescription drugs, self medication habits and misuse of some drugs are contributing factors affecting medication safety. One or more of these factors may lead to serious health complications and even death. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to highlight th...

A review of literature in the Indian. database provides only a few anecdotal reports on the questions of informing the spouse of an HIV positive person, the role of blood banks and confidentiality in the workplace, with no comprehensive studies on the subject. One approach to the question could be to look at the mechanisms of discrimination, the cause and consequence of such practices and how w...

The launch of Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics may cause a revolution in the research evaluation field as it places within every researcher’s reach tools that allow them to measure their output. However, the data and bibliometric indicators offered by Google’s products can be easily manipulated. In order to alert the research community, we present an experiment in which we ma...

Judicial activism plays an important role in shaping various countries' political contexts with different systems and regime types. Academic literature debates are divided among groups favour against judicial activism. This work reviews range of available data to probe case Pakistan from 2005 2013. seemed be short-lived selective nature. The Supreme Court (SCP) exercised without limits cases re...

This study used the theory of planned behavior to examine relationship between internal auditors’ behavioral factors and intention evaluate enterprise risk management (ERM) effectiveness Malaysian statutory bodies. Unlike prior literature, this also included a test on individual attitude towards in addition behavior, subjective norms, perceived control. Analysis 108 received responses showed th...

Online examinations have turned out to be the new normal. However, it is not that easy proctor students as rigorously in in-center examinations. It essential find an approach online too possible. There are already several webcam proctoring systems used real world, but these very accurate and miss on detecting all possible malpractices certain cases due defect system detects a malpractice for so...