Very few studies have assessed whether socioeconomic and psychosocial adversity during childhood are associated with objective measures of aging later in life. We assessed associations of socioeconomic position (SEP) and total psychosocial adversity during childhood, with objectively measured cognitive and physical capability in women during midlife. Adverse childhood experiences were retrospec...

Implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) is a complex task. This study, conducted in an acute geriatric setting, aims to compare self-reported capability beliefs on EBP between health professionals and students, and to compare the use of EBP between health professional groups. Occupational therapists, physicians, physiotherapists and registered nurses with three or more months' employmen...

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background and purpose: of the significant processes for educational quality promotion is to evaluate the teachers' competency.this study has been conducted with the goal for designing and psychometric the measure for determining the professional competence of nursing faculty members. methods: the present research is the qualitative part of a sequential exploratory combined study of the co...

Human body mathematical modeling in impact biomechanics was firstly led in order to predict body kinematics and only later to define injury mechanisms. The objective of the undergoing research is to produce numerical tools which are able to predict head injuries. The present study focuses on the injury prediction capability of a numerical head model simulating professional football players who ...

This chapter discusses the capacity of public procurement workforce in Malta. It provides an overview recent efforts government Malta professionalising workforce, including recognition as a professional task. The also shows key results and takeaways from ProcurCompEU survey which was carried out with fifteen entities to identify competences that require more capability-building initiatives. ide...

The Northern Territory Department of Education (DoE) provided assistive technology to support the teaching and learning of students with disability, and teacher training in integrating this technology in the classroom. A professional learning consultant was recruited in October 2012 with responsibility for researching and sourcing appropriate resources based on an evaluation of the needs of stu...

This concept aims to meet the theoretical needs in answering problem for roles of human resource management function a manufacturing company which involve HR Division Line Manager. The proposed update is an evolutionary work called “Human Resource Professional Transformation”. Specifically, this discusses ability division line managers make adaptive changes company’s business-oriented functiona...

in many applications the quality of a process or product is best characterized and summarized by a functional relationship between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables. profile monitoring is used to understand and to check the stability of this relationship over time. therefore checking the capability of a profile seems essential. process capability indices have become very...