We study a controlled corporate experiment in which loan officers were compensated to engage in loan prospecting in addition to the traditional loan screening. Loan prospecting led to larger loan sizes (+15%) and higher origination rates (+31%) while keeping the traditional credit quality threshold and interest rate intact. Loan officers attempt to influence the decision making process: loan of...

assessment process in England, is being undertaken at the University of Manchester. It has been commissioned by the Department of Health as part of the research programme to support the National Service Framework for Older People. The project has two aims. The first is to review the conduct of assessment across health and social care in order to highlight key issues in the initial implementatio...

Well known as the primary source of commissioned officers for both the Navy and Marine Corps, the United States Naval Academy (USNA) is an undergraduate educational institution with emphasis on technical education. This technical education is supplemented with designand-build projects, hands-on demonstrations, and laboratory exercises using a wide variety of state-of-the-art test equipment. The...

This research considers whether a person‟s demographic and experiential attributes play a significant role in how they perceive the presence or absence of hazards in a given situation. The goal of the research is to show that participants with enlisted military experience, prior to being commissioned as a junior officer, would be more successful at identifying the hazards presented in military ...

Objective: To analyze the pattern of deaths on autopsy carried out on Armed Forces personnel in CMH Sialkot. Study Design: Retrospective analytical study Place and Duration of Study: Combined Military Hospital Sialkot (CMH), from 2009 to 2012 Materials and Methods: In a total of fifty (50) cases detailed postmortems were carried out and gross features on external examination and different syste...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to provide a national picture of the extent and nature of public health services commissioned by local authorities (LAs) from community pharmacies across England in financial year 2014/15. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of public health services commissioned in community pharmacies by LAs, gathered via freedom of information requests and documentary analysis. SETTI...

INTRODUCTION This study was performed in the Finnish Defense Forces to assess the potential applicability and value of short video clips as educational material to teach advanced airway management and as the first means of introducing the use of a laryngeal tube (LT) or an intubating laryngeal mask (ILMA) to inexperienced, military, first-responder trainees with no prior hands-on experience. ...

OBJECTIVE This study assessed the prevalence of general medical problems, stress or emotional problems, and alcohol problems reported by members of the armed forces of the United Kingdom after deployment in Iraq or Afghanistan. The study also identified types of help seeking and factors associated with help seeking. METHODS A total of 4,725 military personnel who were deployed to Iraq, Afghan...

Although people often assume that multiple motives for doing something will be more powerful and effective than a single motive, research suggests that different types of motives for the same action sometimes compete. More specifically, research suggests that instrumental motives, which are extrinsic to the activities at hand, can weaken internal motives, which are intrinsic to the activities a...