Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurobehavioral disorder that usually diagnosed in childhood. It characterized by attention deficits, hyperactivity, and impulsivity leading to significant impairment academic, occupational, familiar, social functioning. Most of the literature has been focusing on impact this condition infancy preadolescence, but little known its consequences...

OBJECTIVES A Workers' Health Surveillance (WHS) program is an occupational health strategy used to detect and address the health of individual workers to improve their ability to work. This study aims to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of a new job-specific WHS for hospital physicians. MATERIAL AND METHODS All hospital physicians of the general surgery, radiotherapy and obstetri...

Lindy Clemson, PhD, MAppSC(OT), DipOT, is Associate Professor in Ageing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Falls are a serious threat to the lives and occupational well-being of older adults. More than one-third of community-living adults ages 65 yr or older fall each year (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2008; Rubenstein & Jo...

Purpose – Occupational stress and organizational change are now widely accepted as two major issues in organizational life. The current study explores the linkage between employees’ attitudes towards organizational change and two of the most significant constructs in organizational behaviour; occupational stress and organizational commitment. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 292 partici...

Organizational ergonomics refers to the optimization of social technical systems, including their organizational structures, policies and processes. The relevant topics include communications, management of resources, work projects, temporal organization of work, team work, participative project, new work paradigms, cooperative work, organizational culture, network organizations and quality man...

Electrosurgery was first described in great detail by A.J. McLean, who provided histological analysis and interpretation of the healing process in various animal tissues subjected to electrosurgery [1]. McLean also extensively studied principles regarding current density and heat transfer governing the effects of electrical current on tissue [1]. Since its initial description, electrosurgery ha...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the success (by measuring intention to use and user satisfaction) of the online public grievance redressal system (OPGRS) from the perspective of the citizens of India. This is the first time that the success of this e-government system is examined using an IS success model. The model developed includes the constructs such as system quality, information q...

In a classic result in the mechanism design literature, Cremer and McLean (1985) show that if buyers’ valuations are sufficiently correlated, a mechanism exists that allows the seller to extract the full surplus from efficient allocation as revenue. This result is commonly seen as “too good to be true” (in practice), casting doubt on its modeling assumptions. In this paper, we use an automated ...

Two forces that dramatically affect the sustainability of firms’ competitive advantage in the new competitive landscape have been identified as globalization and information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as the Internet and intranets (e.g., Castells, 2000; Porter, 2001). Organizations often rely on acquired knowledge from past experiences to make higher quality decisions on busine...

The aim of this study is to propose and discuss a conceptual model to identify the factors responsible for influencing the adoption and success of human resource information systems (HRIS) in public sector organizations in Saudi Arabia. It reviews empirical studies of IT adoption and success at the user level in general and with particular reference to HRIS adoption and success. While a few stu...