UNLABELLED The "hygiene hypothesis" postulates an inverse relationship between the prevalence of parasitic infections and the frequency of multiple sclerosis (MS). OBJECTIVE It was to study whether antibodies against parasites could be demonstrated more frequently in blood serum from MS patients with oligoclonal bands (OCB) than from MS patients without OCB. METHODS We studied serum samples...

Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) is a unique aspect of individual activity at work, first put forward in the early 1980s, by Dennis W.Organ in the university of Indiana. According to Organ's (1988) definition, it represents "individual behavior that is discretionary, not directly or explicitly recognized by the formal reward system, and in the aggregate promotes the efficient and effec...

The relationship between conflict resolution strategies and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and the moderating role of trait Emotional Intelligence (EI) were investigated. Participants were 320 public servants (male = 180, female = 140) randomly selected from 5 states in southwestern Nigeria. Measures of trait EI, OCB, and conflict resolution strategies were administered to the respon...

This study examines whether and how employee perfectionism influences the mechanism of customer-driven organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) later formation well-being. Customer-driven OCB, conceptualized in this study, comprises dual effects OCB toward customers (OCB-C) on a work organization (OCB-O) coworkers (OCB-I). Drawing perfectionistic perspective with conservation resources theory ...

As leader creativity is found to be effective at promoting outcomes for organizations, more and more organizations select creative individuals as leaders. However, the influence of leader creativity has not received enough attention. Thus, this research seeks to focus on the potential influences of leader creativity in organizations. Based on social cognitive theory, we explore the relationship...

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis is routinely used in the diagnostic work-up of multiple sclerosis (MS), by detecting CSF-specific oligoclonal bands (OCB). More recently, several studies have reported CSF free light chains (FLC) as an alternative. We show that absolute CSF κFLC concentrations were highly sensitive - more than OCB testing - and specific for clinically isolated syndrome, relaps...

BACKGROUND Oligoclonal bands (OCB) are detected in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in more than 95% of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the Western hemisphere. Here we evaluated the intrathecal, polyspecific antiviral immune response as a potential diagnostic CSF marker for OCB-negative MS patients. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We tested 46 OCB-negative German patients with paraclinic...

IgG oligoclonal bands (OCB) are detected in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of more than 90% of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and are considered the immunological hallmark that supports MS diagnosis. OCB are not unique to MS but are also observed in chronic CNS infections, where they target their causative agents (1–3). However, the target specificities of the IgG within OCB in MS have remaine...

This research aims to conduct study and analysis about the role of teacher’s commitment and competency as Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) predictor and also its effects to the teacher’s performance. The research is conducted in some private vocational high schools in Klungkung Regency, Bali, Indonesia; it is analysed using Partial Least Square with SmartPLS 2.0 M3 programme. The resu...

Cultural (organizational learning culture) and behavioral (organizational citizenship behaviors) antecedents of knowledge sharing are discussed in the present study. Data was collected from 402 employees of Malaysia. Structural equation model confirms that OLC was positively related to OCB and knowledge sharing. OCB was also found to perform the role of mediator between OLC and knowledge sharing.