The paper by Bernal-Sundiang et al.1 in this issue of Acta Medica Philippina provides one the more extensive and in-depth empirical discussion governance health sector. Utilizing data collected over a one-year period as part Philippine Primary Care Studies urban, rural, remote settings, authors reported on challenges their team encountered project implementation it relates to leadership governa...

background: one of the main goals of nursing education is training them to provide proper medical services to patients as well as healthy people in the community and health centers using their knowledge and specific skills. this service requires nurses’ critical thinking and effective learning. the purpose of this study was to determine the impact of critical thinking skills on decision making ...

Background and Objectives: Evaluating the performance of clinical units is critical for effective management of health settings. Certain assessment of clinical variables for performance analysis is not always possible, calling for use of uncertainty theory. This study aimed to develop and evaluate an integrated independent component analysis-fuzzy-data envelopment analysis approach to accurate ...

Most software companies have increased their inclination towards Component Based Software Development (CBSD) due to the benefits it provides, like reduced development cost and less time-to-market. Moreover, quality of the product also increases. A component is primarily selected based on the functionality it provides, along with other important factors such as the value of quality attributes li...

to evaluate and predict component-based software security, a two-dimensional model of software security is proposed by stochastic petri net in this paper. in this approach, the software security is modeled by graphical presentation ability of petri nets, and the quantitative prediction is provided by the evaluation capability of stochastic petri net and the computing power of markov chain. each...