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The structure and measurement of occupational fraud rationalization as one the motivations for fraudulent behavior has been a major obstacle in theoretical research practical problems. In order to answer fundamental question, “What does cognitive involve?,” this paper explored scale development internal psychological factors rationalization. Several methods were used purpose, such data collecti...

Occupational medicine is one of the more recently accepted specialties and is best defined by the social context in which it is practiced. The current structure of the specialty is more easily understood in the light of its historical background. Occupational medicine brings together knowledge from a wide spectrum of disciplines which is reflected in its academic and research bases. A great var...

OBJECTIVE Our purpose in this study was to examine the preclinical curricular content pertaining to driving evaluation and rehabilitation (DE/R) included in professional entry-level occupational therapy programs. METHOD An e-mail survey containing questions about the program's structure and extent of course material related to DE/R in the curriculum was sent to directors of all 144 U.S. accre...

This paper uses the techniques of exploratory spatial data analysis to analyse patterns of spatial association for different indicators of economic performance, and in so doing identify and describe the spatial structure of economic performance for Great Britain. This approach enables us to identify a number of significant local regimes – clusters of areas in which income per worker differs sig...

Several investigators have successfully used principal component analysis (PCA) in interpreting occupational hygiene data. However, traditional textbooks in occupational hygiene provide no guidance for the application and interpretation of PCA. In this article I briefly review the basics of PCA (for those not statistically inclined), provide some guidelines for performing PCA (and designing stu...