BACKGROUND Mounting evidence suggests that holding multiple concurrent jobs in public and private (dual practice) is common among health workers in low- as well as high-income countries. Nurses are world's largest health professional workforce and a critical resource for achieving Universal Health Coverage. Nonetheless, little is known about nurses' engagement with dual practice. METHODS We c...

1 Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksbug, VA [email protected] 2 Ravikiran Vatrapu, Communication and Information Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, [email protected] Abstract In this paper, we present an argument about why cultural issues need to be included in Computing curricula. We briefly discuss some of the literature in cult...

ee front matter & 2006 acc.2006.10.002 ng author. Tel.: +44 191 31180. ess: joe.cosgrove@nuth Summary According to census data approximately 8% of the UK population is classified as an ethnic minority. This is greater in Britain’s urban areas and given associations between inner-city living, low socio-economic status and ill-health it is inevitable that staff throughout the National Health Serv...

Although all of us experience death, not all of us think about death or respond to death the same way. This study begins to explore how cultural traditions, education, and tenure in Hawaii impact views of advanced directives, organ donation, suicide, and euthanasia. This information is useful to physicians who need to engage patients and families in discussions about death and end-of-life decis...

Global information technology offshore outsourcing and globally distributed information systems development have become increasingly prevalent and diversified, thus demand great academic efforts to address a wide variety of issues. Although some studies have begun to synthesize relevant theoretical and empirical research of the complex phenomena, there is a lack of synthesized efforts to provid...

The authors follow up the issues of cultural tourism in their relationship with and historical heritage context education young people. methods analysis, forecasting, method expert assessment, sociological are used at article. Emphasizing importance globalizing world, consider it as a factor collective identity formation, which is important for national stability safety ensuring. In authors’ op...

Background We live in an age when education is being internationalized. This can confront students with 'cultural hegemony' that can result from the unequal distribution of power and privilege in global society. The name that is given to awareness of social inequality is 'critical consciousness'. Cross-cultural dialogue provides an opportunity for learners to develop critical consciousness to c...

Some of the problems that multi-cultural virtual teams experience include: time delays in replies, lack of synergy among cross-cultural team members, communications breakdowns, unresolved conflicts among members, limited hours allowed to be worked and different holidays. This paper reviews major challenges faced by multi-cultural virtual teams and describes some managerial implications. Althoug...