Cancer is a public health problem due to its high incidence and mortality, its high social and economic cost, and the lack of intra and intersectorial strategies resulting in failure to access information and screening tests. For this reason, it is necessary to address this problem with a comprehensive and sustainable approach. After performing a diagnosis of the human and material resources at...

One out of every six married couples experiences infertility at some point in their relationship. Most couples expect and desire to conceive children, and thus fulfill their “procreative duty.” However, this desire is interrupted by the pain of childlessness. Modern technology has responded through procedures such as artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization (IVF). If these technologies...

The paper explores the factors that affect employees’ attitude and behaviour towards knowledge sharing in Saudi Arabian organisations. A mixed methods approach was used to gather data through a survey and semi-structured interviews. Trust was found to have a negative relationship with knowledge sharing attitude while collaborative climate, management support, openness, and rewards were found to...

Nursing today has become very task-oriented and many nurses and patients are realizing the lack of care within the healthcare environment. “Nursing is known as a scientific profession based on research, theory, and concepts – centered on the art of caring and focused on health care outcomes” (Jasmine, 2009, p. 415). Caring is a conscious and purposeful attitude and point of reference for behavi...

The concept of tinkering is a central practice within research in the field of Human Computer Interaction, dealing with new interactive forms and technologies. In this thesis, tinkering is discussed not only as a practice for interaction design in general, but as an attitude that calls for a deeper reflection over research practices, knowledge generation and the recent movements in the directio...

A Practice Example of Object Oriented Programming Education Using WebCT Hiroyoshi WATANABE Kumiko TAKAI Shigeru SASAKI Masayuki ARAI and Shigeo TAKEI †School of Science and Engineering, Teikyo University Toyosatodai 1-1, Utsunomiya, 320-8551 Japan E-mail: †{hiro,kumiko,sasaki,arai,takei}@ics.teikyo-u.ac.jp Abstract This paper describes an introductory object oriented programming course using We...

Business practice and literature frequently advocate more business oriented roles for management accountants. The aim of this study is to examine reasons for management accountants to act as business partners and to analyze corresponding performance effects. More specifically, two research questions are investigated: (i) why do management accountants act as business partners, and (ii) are busin...

An attitude recognizer of a speaker which uses prosodic features of speech is proposed and it is successfully applied to the dialogue system aiming at agreement formation. We use not only linguistic information but also some sorts of additional information supporting linguistic information in our human communication. In agreement formation dialogues, we are often required to express our attitud...

The human operator's performance in a high order, multiloop task, typified by the helicopter, is studied using the method of average responses. This method permits a time domain, transient input analysis. A cascade model configuration for the human operator is proposed. In this configuration, the first human operator model controls attitude. This model is identical to that of the single-loop mo...