Obtaining employment is often difficult for a person with epilepsy. Recent studies have shown that public attitudes towards epilepsy have improved'2 but finding ajob is still difficult for 25-75% of the 140 000 potential employees with epilepsy in the United Kingdom.34 It has been said that the reason for this difficulty is prejudice and discrimination which reflects a prevailing ignorance abou...

Within environmental management accounting (EMA) methodologies, material flow cost accounting (MFCA) has been successful in changing traditional attitudes of corporate organisations towards material wastes from production activities and supporting management with information to improve resource utilisations and material yields. However, EMA has not been able to expand itself beyond material was...

in the recent years, nurses haven't contributed much time to research (1). evidence based medicine is becoming more and more popular, and it depends on the nurse's attitudes and knowledge towards research (2-4). without studying the nurse's attitudes towards research, it won't be possible to determine if the findings of the researches are used to improve practice or not (5)....

INTRODUCTION Education of health science students in geriatrics is important in order to provide optimal care for the growing number of elderly people because it is the attitudes of health professionals toward the elderly that play the key role in the quality of care provided. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitudes of health care science students towards agei...

The success of the electronics industry over the last decade in developing the mass consumer market for computers, cellphones and other personal electronic equipment has been phenomenal. Society must now finds ways of safely and economically recovering the materials that are embedded in these products. This will require significant investment by governments, industry and individuals, in technol...

Introduction. Recent changes to primary care trusts' Procedures of Limited Clinical Value (PLCV) policy mean that otolaryngologists must now follow policy rather than exercising clinical judgment when listing patients for tonsillectomy. Objectives. To gauge perception within the general public of when tonsillectomy is acceptable and to compare this to the current policy. Method. All patients or...

In a survey of 200 female patients attending a five-man practice in a health centre, 75 per cent of the respondents stated that they would like to be offered a chaperone at pelvic examinations. Only six per cent would accept the offer if the examination was performed by their own doctor and 17 per cent if a different doctor examined them. Patients expressing a definite wish for a chaperone were...

In 1986 the first national poll of public opinion of crime was conducted in Australia. Respondents were asked to assess thirteen different crimes for their seriousness (using the Sellin-WoIfgang index) and were asked to ascribe a suitable sentence for each offence. Some of the findings from this survey are in line with results established overseas, while others are quite different.