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THE INFLUENCE OF INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL FACTOR ON EXTERNAL AUDITOR WHISTLEBLOWING PRACTICE IN GOVERNMENT-LINKED COMPANIES (GLC’S)

Whistleblowing is a report on any corporate wrongdoing that occurs in organisations. There are many companies that bankrupt or suffer loss due to unethical behaviour such as mismanagement, misuse of company funds, money laundering, and manipulation of income statement for private advantage without considering the employees’ or shareholders interest. This study is conducted to examine the factors that could motivate whistleblowing practices by external auditors of Government Linked Company (GLCs). Several predictive variables have been considered, such as individual and organizational factors. However, the findings are still considered as inclusive, especially in Malaysia. 184 respondents from top three audit firms had completed the given questionnaire that was used for the analysis. This study showed that the sample auditors for this study were highly likely to become whistleblowers and individual moral reasoning and audit firms organizational structure have a significant relationship towards external auditor whistleblowing practices. Meanwhile, job satisfaction does not have significant relationship toward external auditor whistleblowing practice. The result of this study will be helpful to the GLCs and audit firms to increase their ethical awareness and at the same time, improve the confidence level of the stakeholders and public at large towards their company.
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION OUTCOME IN CLIENTS WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

This research provides an analysis of the relationship between demographic information and between specific vocational rehabilitation services and employment outcome in RSA consumers with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The findings suggest that these is a relationship between a consumers’ race (i.e., White, Black, Hispanic, and Hawaiian), level of education, and presence of substance abuse. No relationship was identified between a consumers’ gender, age, or race of Asian or American Indian consumers. When specific services of assessment, job placement, job search, and diagnosis/treatment were provided consumers were more likely to obtain employment. The specific services of job placement, job search and diagnosis/treatment also predicted consumers’ employment outcome. Only three of these services, job placement, job search, and diagnosis/treatment were significantly related to consumers’ weekly earnings at case closure. Diagnosis/Treatment was positively related, while job placement and job search were negatively associated.
Strategies and trends in the treatment of (giant) omphalocele

The management of giant omphaloceles remains a challenge for pediatric surgeons. Although the mortality rate is still high (up to 20%) in case of multiple congenital anomalies, surviving patients with omphalocele achieve a state of health and quality of life comparable to that of general population peers. Results from our study confirm the hypothesis that neonates with a congenital abdominal wall defect have a high risk for adhesive small bowel obstruction and could benefit from adhesion prevention. Awaiting complete epithelialisation before operation of giant omphalocele might reduce serosal injury and limit adhesiogenic areas. The liver was partly unprotected in all giant omphaloceles evaluated in this thesis. In case of an incisional hernia, the liver was located underneath the abdominal defect. A pre-operative ultrasound study is recommended, therefore. Furthermore, the parents should receive good documentation and information. The question remains whether contact sports and other risk behaviour should be advised against, as there is no indication of more blunt trauma in these patients in the literature. The results of the questionnaire sent to the authors do not show a consensus for a generally accepted treatment method after more than thirty years of innovations in the management of patients with a giant omphalocele. The newly introduced Component Separation Technique seems to have a good outcome. The herniation rate is low, and prosthetic materials are not needed. However, the question remains if delayed closure with this technique is better than immediate staged closure. There is not yet an evidence base; we shall have to await the long-term results of the published techniques. Based on these outcomes, a randomized multicenter trial comparing the staged and delayed techniques is recommended. Until then, we remain dependent on expert opinion.
Naming and epistemic necessity

Kripke (1980) hypothesizes a link between rigidity and scope: a singular term is rigid over a space S of possibilities just in case it is scopeless with respect to modals that quantify over S. Kripke’s hypothesis works well when we consider the interaction of singular terms with metaphysical modals, but runs into trouble when we consider the interaction of singular terms with epistemic modals. After describing the trouble in detail, and considering one non-solution to it, I develop a novel version of dynamic semantics that resolves the problem.
Epidermal innervation and thermal nociception in rodent models of diabetic neuropathy

The assessment of epidermal innervation is emerging as a valuable means of diagnosing and staging clinical diabetic neuropathy. In order to address whether or not rodent models of diabetes develop a similar loss of cutaneous innervation, we quantified epidermal nerve fiber density in various strains of diabetic rats and mice. After confirming that each of these strains developed epidermal nerve fiber loss, as well as epidermal thinning, we examined the relationship between changes in epidermal nerve fiber density and changes in heat sensitivity. After 2 weeks of diabetes, Swiss Webster mice developed significant thermal hypoalgesia. However, a significant reduction in epidermal innervation did not develop until after 4 weeks of diabetes, indicating that loss of heat sensitivity precedes a detectable reduction in epidermal innervation. Next we attempted to examine the mechanisms of thermal hypoalgesia by examining the effects of an aldose reductase inhibitor and exogenous neurotrophic support in type 1 diabetic Swiss Webster mice. The aldose reductase inhibitor IDD 676 and the NGF-enhancing compound Neotrofin partially ameliorated motor nerve conduction velocity slowing, but were unable to prevent thermal hypoalgesia. CNTF and the prosaposin-like peptide TX14(A) prevented the development of thermal hypoalgesia, but none of these compounds were able to reverse established deficits. Next we examined the neurotrophic properties of insulin by comparing the severity of neuropathy in type 1 and type 2 diabetic mouse models. Both models developed thermal hypoalgesia and IENF deficits, indicating that insulin does not protect against the development of these deficits. To further explore insulin's neurotrophic properties, we examined the effects of insulin supplementation in a type 1 diabetic mouse model. Low doses of insulin prevented epidermal thinning after 4 weeks of diabetes and high doses of insulin prevented thermal hypoalgesia after 4 and 8 weeks of diabetes, indicating neurotrophic effects of insulin. Together, these results demonstrate that rodent models develop the epidermal nerve fiber loss observed in humans with diabetes. However, a loss of thermal sensitivity precedes reductions in epidermal innervation. Loss of neurotrophic support may be involved in the development of these deficits
Introduction to medical microbiology for students of dentistry, medicine and biology

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Impact of foreign workforce on productivity in foreign-funded infrastructure projects

Purpose – The aim of this study is to explore the impact of using foreign workers on construction productivity in project situations. Generally, foreign-funded projects use both native and foreign workers. Foreign workforce entering into the construction industry may affect the productivity positively or negatively, depending on the migrants’ attributes, institutional arrangements and native workers’ responses, thereby impacting the cost of the project. In Sri Lanka, large construction sites have become multicultural and depend on foreign workers brought in by foreign contractors for infrastructure projects. Design/methodology/approach – A survey-based approach was used to collect data. Structured interviews were conducted to explore the characteristics of the foreign workforce and their impact on productivity. Further, potential strategies were analyzed to establish industry motivators (IM) to enhance productivity. Findings – The study on the foreign workforce identified ten employee characteristics that.
ANALYSIS OF GEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS IN MODIFIABLE RISK FACTORS IN PEOPLE WITH DIABETES

Diabetes is a complex chronic disease with many causes, complications and management needs. It affects a large proportion of people of varying ages, income levels, races/ethnicities and geographic areas. Approximately 7.0% of Pennsylvanians have been diagnosed with diabetes. Diabetes is a major public health challenge due to the enormous impact on the affected individual, their families and the health care system. However, recent research has shown that diabetes related mortality and morbidity can be prevented or delayed by controlling risk factors. Certain environmental aspects play an important role in the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases such as diabetes. In order to provide the public health community with another tool to enhance our understanding of the factors that affect the numbers and types of diabetes cases in Pennsylvania, it is important that we undertake a project that will support the analysis of geographic in terms of associated risk factors.This study proposed to investigate geographical patterns of diabetes hospitalizations, risk factors for diabetes complications and glycemic control among individuals with type 2 diabetes in rural regions. Residents of more rural counties are 11% more likely to be hospitalized for uncontrolled diabetes compared to those living in areas that are less rural for every increase in rurality ranking. Furthermore, we demonstrated that there is a clear association between the presence of food stores, food service places, and health care locations with risk factors for diabetes complications among individuals with diabetes. Our findings also indicated that those who live more than ten miles from their diabetes management center are 88% more likely to have an HbA1c level greater than 7.0% compared to those who live less than ten miles from their center, adjusted for individual-level and community level factors. Results demonstrated that for every mile the subjects live from their diabetes management center, they are 2% more likely to have an HbA1c level greater than 7.0%. These findings are of public health significance because they demostrate a clear association between the built envirnment and diabetes hospitalizations, risk factors for diabetes complications and glycemic control among individuals with diabetes in rural regions.
The Management of TB Case Contacts at a Lung Clinic in Indonesia

2! List of Tables . 8! List of Figures . 9! List of Abbreviations: . 10! 1.0! Introduction.11! 2.1 TB Background.16! 2.2 Childhood TB . 20! 2.3 Contact Tracing.23! 2.4 IPT . 25! 2.5 Screening Compliance . 27! 3.0 Methods . 41! 3.1 Overall Study Aims and Design . 41! 3.2 Description of Study Site . 41! 3.3 TB Case Recruitment.42! 3.4 Risk Factor Assessment by Questionnaire.43! 3.5 Screening Child Case Contacts.44! 3.6 Staff Interviews.44! 3.7 Cost Assessment . 45! 3.8 Contact Tracing Methods.45! 3.9 Data Management and Statistical Analysis . 46! 4.0 Results.49! 4.1 Child Screening Results.49! 4.2 Qualitative Results . 67! 4.3 Contact Tracing Results.73!
The health risks of Khat and Influences it has on Integration issues

The aim of the study was to explore Somalis men’s perceptions of using khat. Qualitative approach has been used to explore and describe an overall picture of this circumstance. Key informant interviews were carried out in Stockholm and Vasteras cities, using snowball sampling which is conducted when the researcher’s access to participants is limited and accesses through contact information or a social network that is provided by other informants. Khat is illegal in Sweden. Yet, findings of this study shows that in Sweden neighborhoods with growing Somali populations have significant number of khat users. Perceptions of these users vary from one user to another; some perceive that it is important to frame the khat in the community not as a drug problem but as a wider public health issue, while others argued that khat use has negative impact on integration issues in the new host country. Meanwhile, significant numbers of khat users view it as a social convention, promoting harmony and providing a forum for collective decision making. Generally, perception of users confirmed two major concerns; health issues and frequent familial discords attributed to usage of khat.
Design by Mathematics

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Design by Mathematics Francois Rivet
Children’s influence on parental purchase decisions: Scale development and validation

The article concentrates on the delineation between children’s participation and children’s influence in a family purchasing process. Lack of clarity between the two concepts results in misconceptions, inconsistencies, or even conflicting findings across studies. This study addresses the issue from theoretical and methodological perspectives. Taking into account the importance of children’s participation as a necessary, but not sufficient, pre-condition to demonstrate the influence, the study delineates the two variables and specifies the differences between them. This is supported with the development and validation of an alternative scale that directly measures children’s influence. Further analysis allows justification of the new scale and shows a theoretically supported difference between the measurements of children’s participation and influence in family-buying decision. The fact of making clear distinction between participation and influence leads to the enriched theoretical and methodological knowledge in the field and provides important managerial implications both in the family purchasing context and in other types of group interactions.
Revisão epidemiológica com ênfase nos efeitos tardios pós primeira linha de tratamento para linfoma de Hodgkin em pacientes acompanhados no serviço de oncologia pediátrica do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre no período de 1995 a 2012

Introduction Hodgkin linfoma (HL) is a malignancy which typically affects children and adolescents, with a cure rate higher than 80%. Consequently, these patients may live for decades with treatment-related late effects (LE), which are persistent and emergent. These survivors possess increased risk for various diseases, including second malignancies, cardiac and pulmonary disease, endocrine dysfunction and infertility. Objectives Perform an epidemiological analysis of patients diagnosed with, and treated for, HL with first line chemotherapeutic regimens at the Pediatric Oncology Unit of the Federal University Hospital of Porto Alegre (HCPA), focusing on each treatment’s late effects. Methods and statistical analysis This is a retrospective cohort study, performed by revising medical charts of patients diagnosed with HL and treated with first line chemotherapeutic regimens at the Pediatric Oncology Unit of the HCPA, from 1995 to 2012. Patient characteristics, response to therapy and late effects are reported via descriptive analysis. Continuous variables are reported via mean and standard deviation or median and interquartile ranges. Categorical variables are described by absolute and relative frequencies. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to estimate overall and event-free survival. The comparison between survival curves were performed with the log-rank test. To explore the association between categorical variables, the Pearson Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test were employed. The relationship between late effects and mean chemotherapeutic dose was evaluated with the student’s T test. Results a total of 51 patients, of which 41 (80.3%) were males. Median follow-up time was of 6.9 years. Age at diagnosis varied between 3 and 17 years (mean 9.53; SD 3.85). The most common histological subtype was nodular sclerosis (56,5%). Overall survival (OS) was of 91.8% in 5 years and 82.7% in 10 years, and event-free survival (EFS) was 76.4% and 76.4% for 5 and 10 years, respectively. Eighteen (35.3%) patients presented at least one LE, being 1 (2%) musculoskeletal alterations, 1 (2%) second malignancy, 6 (11.8%) infertility, 8 (15.7%) pulmonary alterations, 9 (17.6%) thyroid alterations and none presented cardiac alterations. Thirty (58.8%) patients received radiotherapy and of these 13 (43.3%) presented LE, being 9 (17.6%) thyroid alterations, 8 (15.7%) pulmonary alterations, 6 (11.8%) infertility, 1 (2%) musculoskeletal alterations, 1 (2%) second malignancy, and none presented cardiac
Cytokeratin Expression in Evaluation of Odontogenic Cysts

Background & Objectives : Odontogenic cysts differ significantly in biologic behaviour (particularly neoplastic potential), thereby making confirmatory histological diagnosis imperative for proper clinical management. This study therefore explores the use of cytokeratin (CK) immunophenotyping in the histological distinction between three common odontogenic cysts - dentigerous cyst (DC), odontogenic keratocyst (OKC) and radicular cyst (RC). Materials & Methods : Using avidin-biotin immunoperoxidase technique, 19 odontogenic cysts were immunophenotyped for cytokeratins 7, 17, 19 & 20 at the pathology department of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano. The 19 cases included 8 DCs, 8 RCs and 3 OKCs. Results : Odontogenickeratocysts were strongly positive for all CKs in the study (7,17,19,20), while dentigerous cysts were only positive for CK19 (75%). Radicular cysts were strongly positive for CKs 7 (75%), 17 (100%) and 19 (100%). Conclusion : Given their differential pattern of immunostaining, cytokeratin immunoprofiling can be used to distinguish between the three common forms of odontogenic cysts. OKCs were positive for all 4 immunomarkers (CKs 7,17,19,20), radicular cysts for 3 (CKs 7,17,19) and dentigerous cysts for one (CK19). Keywords : odontogenic cysts, cytokeratin, immunohistochemistry
Does education improve employee benefits in Vietnam? The first evidence from matched employer–employee data

Abstract Based on a uniquely matched firm-worker panel dataset for 2013 and 2015, this study is the first to consider the effect of education on employee benefits in terms of wages and quality of employment. We find that only college or university education has a positive influence on employee wages when taking into account worker characteristics alone but the wage premium declines when both firm and worker characteristics, as well as time-invariant unobservable factors, are controlled for. While there are many studies on the wage premium of education, the role of education on the quality of employment remains largely unexplored. Our results show that in fact, only college or university graduates benefit from a statistically significant difference in the quality of employment in comparison with their colleagues without such education. The findings suggest that higher education programs play an important role in employee benefits.
School for Women

Sixty per cent of teachers in Britain are women: 74 per cent of primary school teachers and 45 per cent of secondary teachers. This text proposes that behind the familiar image of the woman teacher lies a curiously neglected history. Drawing on both published and unpublished material, including teachers' own autobiographical writing, this book examines the current state of educational provision and its surrounding debates. The author asks disquieting questions: do teachers endure condescension because the profession is dominated by women? ; what does it say about the nature of a society prepared to hand over the education of its children to adults whose powers of mind are so consistently distrusted? ; and what is the effect on children of mainly being taught by women? In addition she takes on some of today's contentious issues including the alarm at girl's successes and panic about boy's relative failure.
Resistência à flexão de uma resina acrílica após a incorporação de um polímero antimicrobiano

Introduction: The incorporation of antimicrobial agents in acrylic resins can be an alternative to prevent denture stomatitis in partial or complete denture wearers. However, these agents can affect the mechanical properties of denture base acrylic resin. Objective: This study investigated the effect of incorporation of antimicrobial polymer 2-tert-butylaminoethyl methacrylate (PTBAEMA) on flexural strength of an acrylic resin. Material and method: Rectangular specimens were from a denture base acrylic resin (Lucitone 550) containing 0% (control), 1, 2.5, 5 and 10% of PTBAEMA. Data of flexural strength were evaluated by one way ANOVA, followed by Tukey test (a = 0.05). Result: It was observed that flexural strength significantly decreased (p < 0.05) after the addition of PTBAEMA: 0% (91.3 ± 13.7 A ), 1% (71.4 ± 7.7 B ), 2.5% (9.4 ± 1.5 C ); 5% (7 ± 1.7 C ) e 10% (7 ± 1.2 C ). Conclusion: Flexural strength was detrimentally affected after incorporation of PTBAEMA. Future studies are necessary to evaluate if the 1% concentration allows clinical application for the acrylic resin studied, since flexural strength obtained was within ISO recommendations.