While disability benefits make up the largest group of claimants in high-income countries, we know surprisingly little about which disabled people are seen as ‘deserving’ benefits, nor whether different countries judge deservingness-related characteristics similarly. This is surprising given they increasingly focus retrenchment, often affirms deservingness ‘truly deserving’ while focusing cuts ...

Hearing-impaired listeners with similar hearing losses may differ widely in their ability to understand speech in noise. Such individual susceptibility to noise may explain why patients obtain varying degrees of benefit from hearing aids. The chief purpose of this study was to determine if adaptive measures of unaided speech recognition in noise were related to hearing aid benefit. Additionally...

OBJECTIVE The main aim of this research was to investigate the students' intention toward condom use and associated factors among students in Debre Work Secondary and Preparatory School, 2015. METHODS A survey was carried out in the high school and the preparatory school. The self-administered semistructured questionnaire was distributed to 422 students. Systematic sampling techniques were em...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of music tempo on heart rate and rate of perceived exertion of male physical education students. to this purpose, 45 male physical education students (height: 172.27 cm, sd=16.22, body mass index (bmi): 22.27kg/m², sd=3.08, weight: 68/05kg, sd=11.73, age: 21.93 years, sd=1.81) were randomly divided into control, high tempo (bpm=140)...

AIM The aim of this study was evaluation of constructive alignment of student perceptions to a spiral curriculum, as a pre-requisite to successful learning. METHOD A survey was undertaken to evaluate student thoughts and experiences of a spiral curriculum, by participation in an anonymous voluntary questionnaire. Students were asked to rate their thoughts on their understanding, perceived ben...

Offshore outsourcing of software projects is an important competitive strategy in modern software business. There has been a long discussion of risks and benefits of this approach. Interestingly, while some issues are perceived as a significant benefit by a group of researchers, they are conversely perceived as a critical risk by others. This paper discusses the two sides of these risk-benefit ...

This research aims to examine the key success factors for the diffusion of mobile entertainment services in Malaysia. The drivers and barriers observed in this research include perceived benefit; concerns pertaining to pricing, product and technological standardization, privacy and security; as well as influences from peers and community. An analysis of a Malaysian survey of 384 respondents bet...

nowadays, the wide spread usage of the mobile bank is the catalyst of an opportunity. so, the financial institues and banks benefit of it in their atmosphere of full turbulence. the main goal of this research is to study the effect of the mobile bank usage on the intention of  using mobile bank in electronic banking industy by testing 6 hypotheses. it is note worthy that the present research is...