This paper examines downward price rigidity in Iranian house market and discusses whether this characteristic would result in an asymmetric relationship between house price and monetary policy. To test the downward house price rigidity the threshold GARCH model is employed. The asymmetric adjustment to monetary policy is examined using the asymmetric cointegration and error correction models. T...

Background:Practising hand hygiene is essential in minimizing morbidity and mortality surgical services. Compliance with proper reportedly lacking among house surgeons (CRRIS) nursing trainees that need to be addressed as formal training prior posting not the curriculum. Objective: 1. To undertake a gap analysis knowledge, attitudes, practice compliances HH CRRIS graduate at KIMS, tertiary teac...

Punishment is claimed as an important mechanism to stabilise costly cooperation in humans, but its importance in social animals has been questioned recently due to both conceptual considerations and a lack of empirical evidence (only few published studies). We empirically tested whether there is evidence for punishment in communally nursing house mice (Mus musculus domesticus, direct descendant...

An unexpected shift from face-to-face to online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic has given a massive challenge students. This study aims determine common obstacles and their effect on nursing students' attitudes towards open distance (ODL) Covid-19. The employed quantitative research design. findings showed that 2% of students had ODL. most dimension ODL was curriculum content. There stati...

Although the house call a decade ago was declared a vanishing practice, statistics show an upwelling of home visits by physicians, in the developed countries, during the last ten years. A major reason for this is the radical alteration of the contents of the physicians’ black bag that beyond the stethoscope includes also, a Personal Digital Assistant with embedded Cellphone safekeeping detailed...

BACKGROUND Home visits are claimed to be a central element of primary care. However, the frequency with which home visits are made is declining both internationally and in Germany despite the increase in the number of chronically ill elderly patients. Given this, the question arises as to how to ensure sufficient primary health care for this vulnerable patient group. The aim of this study was t...