Animated pictures can have different functions in the process of learning. They can have an enabling function if they allow the learner to perform a higher amount of cognitive processing than static pictures. They can also have a facilitating function if they make specific cognitive processes easier to perform through external support. Two experiments were carried out which investigated differe...

2013 saw the National Health Service (NHS) in England severely criticized for providing poor quality despite successive governments in the previous 15 years, establishing a range of new institutions to improve NHS quality. This study seeks to understand the contributions of political and organizational influences in enabling the NHS to deliver high-quality care through exploring the experiences...

Background Community participation in priority setting in health systems has gained importance all over the world, particularly in resource-poor settings where governments have often failed to provide adequate public-sector services for their citizens. Incorporation of public views into priority setting is perceived as a means to restore trust, improve accountability, and secure cost-effective ...

AND KEYWORDS Abstract In 2004, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision defined Operational Risk (OR) as the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems or from external events. After publication of the new capital accord containing this dfinition, statistical properties of OR losses have attracted considerable attention in the financial industry si...

This study examines the impact of intellectual capital (IC) and its components (human capital, structural employed) on microfinance institutions’ (MFIs) financial social efficiency. It also determines moderating external governance relationship between IC MFIs’ employs Truncated regression model Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), while Tobit Generalized Method Moments (GMM) were utilized to check...

Computer Assisted Audit Techniques (CAATs) encompass a range of computerized techniques that internal and external auditors use to facilitate their audit objectives. One of the most important CAATs is generalized audit software (GAS), which is a class of packaged software that allows auditors to interrogate a variety of databases, application software and other sources and then conduct analyses...

Schema integration is the basis for successfully building a database federation. Current proposals directly integrate the diierent schemata using a semantical powerful data model, for example an extended ER model or an object-oriented model. We propose instead to use for integration a semantical poor model and build semantically rich representations as external views only. This approach enables...

Enabling education programs in Australia assist students, who would otherwise have been excluded from higher education, to transition into undergraduate study. These emerged independently response the needs of individual universities and varying cohorts students they serve. The exclusion these Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) has meant remain unregulated, with no national framework for...

OBJECTIVE To establish the categories of pre-service health training institutions in Uganda that still maintain leprosy in their curricula and how leprosy training is organised. MATERIALS AND METHODS A structured questionnaire was administered to the heads of 42 health training institutions including universities, paramedical and nurses' training schools. RESULTS Leprosy was included in the...