The Caribbean's long history of cooperation in health now focuses on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), given that Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have the highest NCD burden in the Americas. The heads of government convened a first in the world one-day summit on NCDs, largely due to advocacy by George Alleyne and others, on the health, social, and economic impact of NCDs; the need for up...

Although fairness is critical to effective human resource management, little effort has been made to assess the role fairness plays in facilitating positive and preventing negative employee outcomes in government agencies. Using data collected through a survey of 764 professional employees from a large state agency, this study examined the relationship between perceived organizational justice a...

The scientific exploration of the self has progressed, with much attention focused on the Embodied Sense of Self (ESS). Empirical studies have suggested the mechanisms for self-representation. On the other hand, less attention has been paid to the subjectivity itself of the self. With reference to previous studies, the current study collected items that reflect the ESS and statistically extract...

Illusory control refers to an effect in games of chance where features associated with skilful situations increase expectancies of success. Past work has operationalized illusory control in terms of subjective ratings or behaviour, with limited consideration of the relationship between these definitions, or the broader construct of agency. This study used a novel card-guessing task in 78 partic...

the aim of this study is assessing the effectiveness of customer relationship management factors in isfahan tourism and travel agencies by structural equation modeling (sem). it is practical according to the goal and it’s a kind of descriptive survey in terms of methodology. research population included all of staffs and managers at tourism and travel agencies in isfahan in 2012 that 274 of the...