This study aimed at identifying the main factors that motivate Code-mixing among M.A. students and graduates who chose Applied Linguistics as their major An-Najah National University. It also finding out differences between participants responses with respect to selected variables including age, gender, workplace, student status years of experience. The sample consisted 32 regular another 22 al...

background: motivation is a driver to health worker performance in most ghanaian hospitals. in view of this, ghana’s ministry of health has rolled out enough motivational policies to accentuate work performance of health workers. objective: the focus of this study was to examine the impact of motivation and identify how intrinsic and extrinsic motivating factors affect the work performance of h...

Institutional Repositories (IRs) are predicated on contributions by members of a university community, particularly faculty members. In fact, faculty contribution is considered one of the success factors for an IR even though several studies have found a low rate of faculty submission. In order to learn how we might be able to address this problem, the present study investigated factors that mo...

OBJECTIVE Health information exchange (HIE) is the process of electronically sharing patient-level information between providers. However, where implemented, reports indicate HIE system usage is low. The aim of this study was to determine the factors associated with different types of HIE usage. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of clinical data from emergency room encounters included in an ope...

Online political debate is increasing in importance, both as a real world phenomenon and as an object of scientific study. We present a survey study exploring people's motivations for engaging in online political debate and how such debate may impact their general political engagement. The survey was conducted among 90 participants of an online environment for political debate hosted by one of ...

Historically, the pharmaceutical industries, regulators and society have been averse to the idea of exposing children to new drugs by enrolling them in clinical trials. However, this attitude has led to rampant off-label use [1,2] whereby children are exposed to drugs whose safety, efficacy and dosage schedule has not yet been determined. This has led to a rethink on the part of scientists and ...