BACKGROUND Non-compliance with prescribed therapy significantly impacts dialysis patient care and outcomes. The underlying psychosocial issues leading to non-compliance are not well understood, especially in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. METHODS A multicentre cohort of 119 haemodialysis (HD) patients and 51 PD patients was studied. In-person interviews were conducted with patients and cl...

OBJECTIVE Compliance with road safety signs is important in the reduction of motorcycle accidents. The aim of this study was to implement health education intervention and assess its impact on the knowledge of and compliance with road safety signs among commercial motorcyclists in Uyo, Southern Nigeria. METHOD This was an intervention study among motorcyclists in Uyo, Southern Nigeria, with a...

We consider the problem of minimizing the overall cost of a supply chain, over a possibility long horizon, under demand uncertainly which is known only crudely. Under such circumstances, the method of choice is Robust Optimization, in particular the Affinely Adjustable Robust Counterpart (AARC) method which leads to tractable deterministic optimization problems. The latter is due to a recent re...

Internet security risks, the leading security threats confronting today’s organizations, often result from employees’ non-compliance with the Internet use policy (IUP). Extant studies on the compliance with security policies have largely ignored the impact of intrinsic motivations on employees’ compliance intention. This paper proposes a theoretical model that integrates an extrinsic sanction-b...

INTRODUCTION The prevalence of hypertension has continued to increase and is now a great burden for health care providers. Obtaining information on the factors affecting compliance to antihypertensive drugs is thus important. The aim of this study was to assess knowledge of hypertension and to determine factors affecting the compliance of hypertensive patients to their antihypertensive drugs. ...

A fundamental challenge for enterprises is to ensure compliance of their business processes with imposed compliance rules stemming from various sources, e.g., corporate guidelines, best practices, standards, and laws. In general, a compliance rule may refer to multiple process perspectives including control flow, time, data, resources, and interactions with business partners. On one hand, compl...

A fundamental challenge for any process-aware information system is to ensure compliance of modeled and executed business processes with imposed compliance rules stemming from guidelines, standards and laws. Such compliance rules usually refer to multiple process perspectives including control flow, time, resources, data, and interactions with business partners. On one hand, compliance rules sh...

While playing an increasingly important role across various industries, the efficient management of legal and regulatory compliance requirements remains a challenge in modern organizations. Commonly, compliance is handled by separate organizational units and not well integrated with core business processes. Based on the area of information systems (IS) controls as mechanism to fulfil given requ...