This cross-sectional study determined the appreciation of the learning environment and development of higher-order learning skills among students attending the Medical Curriculum at the International Medical University, Malaysia which provides traditional and e-learning resources with an emphasis on problem based learning (PBL) and self-directed learning. Of the 708 participants, the majority p...

ABSTRACT Thorstein Veblen was a founding father of the original institutional economics. Veblen’s first book, The Theory Leisure Class (1899), introduced to economists an interdisciplinary perspective understand consumers’ decision-making. This relied on processual nature instincts, habits, and institutions. ideas human behavior were not completely original, it has been widely recognized that s...

The paper investigates the dynamic relationship between social trust and economic governance and provides a possible explanation for their long-term trends and crosssectional variation. To mitigate the inherent moral hazard problem in a principal— agent situation, both intrinsic trustworthiness and extrinsic incentives are useful. The distribution of intrinsic trustworthiness among agents chara...

The concept of local self-governance is not new as it has its roots in ancient time even before the era of Mauryan emperors. This paper depicts the journey of local selfgovernance from antediluvian time to 21st century. Further, in the current scenario Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has emerged as a successful tool for dissemination of various e-governance services and in this r...

The encounter between a patient and her surgeon is unique for several reasons. The surgeon inflicts pain upon a patient for the patient's own good. An operative intervention is irreducibly personal, such that the decisions about and performance of operations are inseparable from the idiosyncrasies of the individual surgeon. Furthermore, there is a chasm of knowledge between the patient and surg...

PURPOSE This paper is derived from a larger study of nurses perceptions of their role as patient educators. The focus is to examine nurses performance in patient education in relation to issues of their perceived responsibility and their ability to prioritize patient education. METHOD A multiple-method survey design, using a questionnaire and in-depth interviews, is used to produce a comprehe...

This study examined the risky sexual behaviours (RSBs) of adolescents in Owerri Municipal in Imo State. Adopting the descriptive Survey research design, a stratified sampling technique was used to enroll 1008 adolescents aged 10 - 19 from 4 secondary schools into the study. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Result shown that majority of the adolescent (47.4%) have had sex...