Social capital is currently one of social structure‘s most prominent and debated manifestations. However, we have a limited understanding of how social ties as the basis of social capital form in the first place. From one perspective social capital is viewed as: ―investment in social relations with expected returns in the marketplace‖ (Lin 2001, p. 19). A second perspective on social capital fo...

OBJECTIVE To explore the variance of unit costs of hospital medical services due to different costing methods employed in the analysis. METHODS Retrospective and descriptive study at Kaengkhoi District Hospital, Saraburi Province, Thailand, in the fiscal year 2002. The process started with a calculation of unit costs of medical services as a base case. After that, the unit costs were re-calcu...

The study was designed to analyze credit receipt and enterprise performance by small scale agro based enterprises in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was adopted in selecting 264 agro based enterprises and 96 agro based enterprises that accessed informal and formal credit respectively. The Heckman model was used to examine the factors affecting amount of inform...

This paper aims to emphasize the quantification of intellectual capital, not disclosed on assets side balance sheet in smart and knowledge-based enterprise, because it is very important for more precise profitability ratio, such as return (ROA). For this purpose, suggests EIC (efficiency capital) methodology. It points out necessity new formula, gives methodological solutions it, investigates i...

BACKGROUND Psychological distress (e.g., depression and anxiety) has been regarded as the main cause of leaving work for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in workplaces. This study aims to explore the associations of functional social support (FSS) and psychological capital (PC) with depressive and anxiety symptoms among PLWHA employed full-time. METHODS This cross-sectional study was perfo...