An empirical investigation was conducted on the in-group dynamics of health personnel working in leprosy. The sample populations were taken from the National Leprosy Eradication Programme (NLEP) employees of two state governments in India. They consisted of 21 doctors and 335 paramedicals, the former constituting a formal group and the latter a semiformal group. Two separate scales were develop...

Previous research indicates adults with eating disorders (EDs) report smaller social networks, and difficulties with social functioning, alongside demonstrating difficulties recognising and regulating emotions in social contexts. Concurrently, those recovered from the illness have discussed the vital role offered by social support and interaction in their recovery. To date, little is known abou...

OBJECTIVE To explore perceptions of faculty educators regarding the importance of nontechnical competencies in veterinary graduates and the placement of nontechnical competency development in veterinary education. DESIGN Survey. SAMPLE POPULATION All faculty members at 5 North American veterinary medical institutions. PROCEDURES Participants rated the importance of 14 nontechnical compete...

The collaborative success of cross-disciplinary scientific teams depends in part on the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intellectual orientations individual team members bring to the group. This paper extends earlier conceptualizations of Transdisciplinary Orientation (TDO) --defined as the values, attitudes, beliefs, conceptual skills and knowledge, and behavioral repertoires that predispose...

the purpose of this present study was to investigate the relationship between intrapersonal intelligence of efl learners and their critical thinking. multiple intelligences involve nine types and onc is intrapcrsonal intelligence. intrapcrsonal intelligence refers to the ability to understand the concept of oneself and awareness of fears, attendance, and information about life decision making. ...

BACKGROUND Evidence supports the implementation of primary prevention and health promotion (PP&HP) activities but primary care (PC) professionals show resistance to implementing these activities. The aim was to synthesize the available qualitative research on barriers and facilitators identified by PC physicians and nurses in the implementation of PP&HP in adults. METHODS AND FINDINGS A syste...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the experience of community palliative care nurses providing home care to children. METHOD A qualitative study was conducted at the 3 community palliative care provider organizations in greater Kuala Lumpur from August to October 2014. Data were collected with semistructured interviews with 16 nurses who have provided care to children and was ana...

The off-line signature verification rests on the hypothesis that each writer has similarity among signature samples, with small distortion and scale variability. This kind of distortion represents the intrapersonal variability [3]. This paper reports the interpersonal and intrapersonal variability influences in a software approach based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM) classifier [1,5,7]. The exper...