THIS valuable conference was held at Friends House on October 8th and 9th, 1964. It was organised by the National Association for Mental Health for staff concerned with the care and treatment of old people with mental deterioration, to consider common problems on an inter-disciplinary basis. Aves, formerly Chief Welfare Officer of the Ministry of Health, was in the Chair. They presented a great...

Drawing on theories of representative bureaucracy theory, we examine whether increased representation of women in police forces in England leads to a higher rate of domestic violence arrests. To do so, we use panel regression techniques to analyze the links between gender representation and variations in the arrest of domestic abuse perpetrators, when controlling for a range of other relevant v...

Definition.?Staff tours or Staff rides consist in working out on the ground without troops strategical and tactical problems, and problems in staff duties?the commanders, staff and heads of administrative services are represented by officers ; the troops and impedimenta are imaginary. The director in-chief prepares a scheme of the operations with general ami special ideas upon which the work of...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the current capital budgeting practices in Bangladeshi listed companies and provide a normative framework (guidelines) for practitioners. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected with structured questionnaire survey taking from chief financial officers (CFOs) Dhaka Stock Exchange Bangladesh. Garnered data then analyzed using descriptive...

It supports the following: The Air Force Village provides cost-effective living options to widows or widowers of career retired Air Force officers. The Air Force Aid Society is the official charity of the Air Force which assists in relieving financial emergencies faced by active-duty members and their families. The Air Force Enlisted Village provides homes to dire-need enlisted surviving spouse...

Nowadays, it is quite agreed that organizations gain limited advantages in adopting e-learning platforms that only provide educational contents. An advantageous e-learning platform should have instead the capability to help enrich, share and circulate organization knowledge, thus contributing to making the organization dynamic and flexible. In this paper MASEL, a Multi-Agent System for E-Learni...

The 5th General Hospital embarked from New York on 19 February 1942. Seven Medical Officers, 28 Nurse Officers and 14 Enlisted Men were placed on various ships of the convoy but the remaining personnel were assigned to a single ship. This vessel, the American Legion, broke down in the Atlantic and subsequently returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The detached 7 Medical Officers (including Lt. Col....

Cultures differ in the emotions they teach their members to value ("ideal affect"). We conducted 3 studies to examine whether leaders' smiles reflect these cultural differences in ideal affect. In Study 1, we compared the smiles of top-ranked American and Chinese government leaders, chief executive officers, and university presidents in their official photos. Consistent with findings that Ameri...

Drawing on theories of representative bureaucracy theory, we examine whether increased representation of women in police forces in England leads to a higher rate of domestic violence arrests. To do so, we use panel regression techniques to analyze the links between gender representation and variations in the arrest of domestic abuse perpetrators, when controlling for a range of other relevant v...

BACKGROUND Chronic Kidney Disease is a major public health problem worldwide with enormous cost burdens on health care systems in developing countries. We aimed to provide a detailed analysis of the processes and costs of haemodialysis in Sri Lanka and provide a framework for modeling similar financial audits. METHODS This prospective study was conducted at haemodialysis units of three public...