Mortality following major surgery

Major abdominal surgery such as esophageal, gastric, liver, pancreatic, colorectal resections and aortic aneurysm repair causes high peri-operative morbidity and mortality in patients.1 During the last decades, several studies have indicated that low volume hospitals having a higher chance of morbidity and mortality.2 Therefore, centralization of major abdominal surgery has occurred in numerous countries in … Read more

Conflict and Change Management

In an environment where individuals spend long periods of time together e.g. the typical workplace, conflict is certainly inevitable. The conflicts usually occur when there is any sense of incompatible interests amongst persons in that workplace. There exist lots of sources causing conflict in the workplaces including external, organizational, interpersonal, and change related factors (Ritvo … Read more

Aging population in Indonesia

Indonesia is recently facing major age-related issues as the elderly population continues to grow. As such, aging will soon become a policy concern that will require attention from the government. To ensure that the elderly receive adequate support during their old age, recently several new laws have been passed [1]. One of the main consequences … Read more

Knoll's "Inpatient Suicide: Identifying Vulnerability in the Hospital Setting"

When a person enters a psychiatric hospital or mental health treatment facility, there is an expectation of safety. Inpatient mental health facilities are designed to provide a safe and secure environment for intensive treatment including observation, diagnosis, individual and group psychotherapy and medication management. The overall plan of care is often a detailed coordinated effort … Read more

The ICT enabled service in the government for the benefit of the public

The purpose of the e-government is to reduce costs for individuals and businesses to deal with government and reach out to a broader part of population and transform public administration from bureaucracy to service providing. According to the United Nations ‘the concept of connected government is derived from the whole-of-government approach which is increasingly looking … Read more

Characteristics of an Innovative Leader

Leadership is an important aspect of managing. Innovative leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, training, and experience. They have the psychological maturity and often very optimistic. Innovative leaders are lucid, sensible, and applicative. They should work with vision and strategy and always keep the ultimate goal in the limelight so that they … Read more

Research proposal: Earnings management in Nigeria

The main research question I would like to address in this research is that whether there is a high(er) magnitude of earnings management in Nigeria and which industry is more prevalent. Earnings management is such a huge and important topic around the globe of which series of regulatory importance and penalty is now been attached … Read more

Effects of technology

Technology has changed the way of living; it has changed the way we interact with people. Technology is the ultimate persuasion for people today, and it’s something they want to master. Technology has affected our lifestyle drastically and led us to believe that our life has changed for the better. However, there is a critical … Read more

Water

Water is essential of life. It plays a key role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. As the population continues to grow and the economy develops, the competition for water uses between different users intensify, which inducing excessive strain on the environment. Climate change and water pollution further aggravate the situation. Today, 2.8 billion people … Read more

Social Network Sites (SNSs)

Social Network Sites (SNSs) have attracted a lot of people in different ages to constructing social relationships with people who share interests, activities or backgrounds. The purpose of this essay is to provide a conceptual, historical and advantages versus disadvantages of the SNSs . the essay begin by defining a social network sites , the … Read more

Image processing

INTRODUCTION 1.1 IMAGE PROCESSING: Image processing is a computer imaging where application involves a human being in the visual loop. In other words the image are to be examined and a acted upon by people. The image processing mainly involves in three stages: Image restoration. Image enhancement. Image compression. 1.1.1 Image Restoration This is the … Read more

Digital watermarking scheme

ABSTRACT Digital media application, multimedia security, copyright protection are becoming important in today’s world as its distribution over network is increasing rapidly, indeed left a concern for the owner about their ownership protection. For the copyright protection of the digital applications, digital watermarking is introduced that enables to mark the digital image with undetectable secret … Read more

Factors that can affect use and acceptance of eWOM (electronic word of mouth)

A. Explains research rationale. As internet and e-commerce has been heavily used, Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) has rapindly become one of the most influential and popular tools of communication. Today, eWOM has been considered as reliable tool as it can help consumers to make purchasing decisions. (Fan, 2013) The main purpose consumers selected eWOM … Read more