TMs Perception Research Articles

Assessment of Caregiver’S Perception Towards Respiratory Diseases Therapy In Pediatric Department Of A Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital

Assessment of Caregiver’S Perception Towards Respiratory Diseases Therapy In Pediatric Department Of A Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital

Digital Native Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceptions of using Commercial and Open Source Online Applications in Future Praxis after Completing Technology Integration Course

Exposure to new technologies is commonplace for most people lived in the 21st century. As technology evolves, so does a generation of learners whose identity is shaped by how they manage these technological tools. The participants of this study were digital native pre-service teachers (DNPST) who were exposed to technology since childhood and enrolled in a technology integration course at a border city university. This study investigates DNPST’s perceptions upon exposure to alternate models of technology tools and their intentions for implementing them into their future classroom repertoire. The method of data collection for this quantitative study consisted of pre and post-test surveys. Data analysis was completed using the Wilcoxon Rank Sum-Test. Results of this study indicated that the technology methods course did not have a significant effect on pre-service teachers' perceptions to adopt technology tools for future classroom instruction. This study was encouraged by the department of education and the results obtained through this study will allow curricular updates. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.18.2.8

Effectiveness of Commuter Rail Service Toward Passenger’s Satisfaction: a Case Study from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This paper’s main objective is to evaluate the quality of commuter rail service at Kuala Lumpur by conduction a commuter user survey. The study sample consisted of 400 commuter rail passengers. The results reveal that there is significant conflict between passenger’s expectation and perception of the commuter rail service quality at Kuala Lumpur. Measured value for passenger expectation are found to be consistently higher than their satisfaction, which indicate that is room for Malayan Railways Limited (KTMB) management to improve its service quality. Three out of 12 service items such as the price of ticket, the punctuality time for departure and arrival of train, and ticket counter rated as important and satisfactory, and thus should be maintained. These items are the issues that may have caused concerns for passengers and should urgently addressed by KTMB management to improve passenger’s satisfaction as well as to increase the commuter rail ridership. Â

Learning and Classification of Maneuver Behaviors Based on Deep Belief Networks

Cognition of air target maneuver behavior is an important basis for identifying air combat intentions. In order to enhance the airborne radar’s perception of air combat situation, this study developed a framework for activity classification of observed typical maneuver behaviors of air targets. A target athletic behavior learning matrix was constructed to make regularized description of multiple types of behaviors under multiple classification goals; also, a group of network parameters was determined, which was suitable for motion behavior classification. Finally, experiments were used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Evaluation of knowledge, attitude, and practice of generic drugs among intern doctors at a tertiary care teaching hospital

Background: The increasing health-care expenses are a major concern for the health-care proving system in the world. As stated by the World Health Organization, in the majority of developing countries out of pocket expenses may go as high as 80% of total health-care expenditures. In developing countries like India, the generic medicines are not widely prescribed due to lack of knowledge and awareness regarding generic medicines in both prescribers and in patients. Understanding of prescriber’s attitude and perceptions regarding the quality, efficacy, and safety of generic medicines may help to identify important barriers for better generic prescribing. Aims and Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of generic medicines among intern doctors at a tertiary care teaching hospital. Materials and Methods: A prospective, cross-sectional study was conducted among intern doctors at a tertiary care teaching hospital using a questionnaire, consisting of questions related to knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding generic medicines. Data were analyzed by MS Excel. Results: A total of 105 (88%) interns responded to the questionnaire. Around 60% of interns agreed with that generic medicine can be used in place of innovator (patented) medicine. Among all the interns, 52.4% were aware of that generic medicine contains the same active ingredient as their counterpart innovator medicine. More than half of interns (55.2 %) were aware of Jan Aushadhi scheme launched by the Government of India. Around 69.5% of interns disagreed with that generic medicines cost less because they are inferior to innovator medicines. Majority of interns (88.6%) were of the opinion that there should be some training session to raise the knowledge and awareness about generic medicines. Around half of the interns (50.5%) had never switch a patient on innovator medicine to generic medicine. Only 1% was not in favor of supporting generic drug prescribing. Conclusion: Knowledge of intern doctors regarding concept and regulations about generic drugs is adequate. Although they prescribe a good number of generic drugs, concerns regarding quality, efficacy, safety, availability, and awareness are present among them. Hence, mass awareness programs and training sessions are required to address these concerns which may alter their prescribing behavior and can encourage for more use of generic medicines.

Wronging past rights: The sunk cost bias distorts moral judgment

When people have invested resources into an endeavor, they typically persist in it, even when it becomes obvious that it will fail. Here we show this bias extends to people’s moral decision-making. Across two preregistered experiments (N = 1592) we show that people are more willing to proceed with a futile, immoral action when costs have been sunk (Experiment 1A and 1B). Moreover, we show that sunk costs distort people’s perception of morality by increasing how acceptable they find actions that have received past investment (Experiment 2). We find these results in contexts where continuing would lead to no obvious benefit and only further harm. We also find initial evidence that the bias has a larger impact on judgment in immoral compared to non-moral contexts. Our findings illustrate a novel way that the past can affect moral judgment. Implications for rational moral judgment and models of moral cognition are discussed.

Sustainable Tourism Development

As multi-stakeholders in tourism development help to create tourism experience, it is therefore vital to understand each stakeholder’s perception towards tourism development. In additon, local leaders and policy makers play a critical role in facilitating the mutual benefits of all tourism stakeholders in sustainable tourism development in the local community. Most research on Social Exchange Theory (SET) in tourism only focuses on resident’s and tourist’s perceptions toward tourism, and some studies indicate the ambiguous explanation and interpretation on SET in understanding community’s perceptions toward tourists and tourism. Therefore, it is a need to understand local leaders’ and policy makers’ perceptions toward sustainable tourism development, as they act as the initiators or facilitators in sustainable tourism development. In-depth interviews were conducted with ten local leaders and policy-makers in Thailand and the results were thematically analysed. The anticipated results explain positive and negative impacts toward economy, society and environment.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Employer Attractiveness: Perspectives of Students on the African continent

This paper explores the importance that potential employees attach to CSR practices of firms and how their perceptions of CSR may translate into their willingness to work for CSR practicing firms. The paper sought to investigate the effect of students’ CSR perception on their perception of the attractiveness of CSR practicing firms as prospective employers and also explore the possible moderating effects of student’s demographic characteristics on the relationship between their perception of CSR and the employer attractiveness of CSR practicing firms. The study employed correlations, multiple and hierarchical regression analyses to explore data collected from 603 students in the largest university in Ghana. Male respondents had attached significantly higher importance to firms’ engagement in CSR activities than their female counterparts while respondents from the African continent attached higher importance to firms’ engagement in CSR practices than respondents from other continents with the exception of Australia. Additionally, individual’s perception of firms engagement in CSR was found to be positively related to their perceived attraction to CSR practicing firms as prospective employers. Results of the study indicate that CSR can be employed to differentiate job offerings within the African context and as such, CSR can serve as an employer branding tool in Africa. This study represents one of the first attempts to explore the role of demographic characteristics in affecting individuals’ CSR perceptions as well as the role of CSR perceptions in affecting the attractiveness of prospective employers within the African context.Â

An Engineering Approach for Health Assessment Based on Electrophotonic Image

Background: New techniques based on digital analysis and more precise visualisation in monitoring of individual health status can improve the accessibility and reliability of healthcare services. An innovation in capturing human biofield energy level using Electrophotonic Imaging (EPI) is seen as a breakthrough approach to healthcare service. This non-invasive imaging approach produces an image, i.e. the Kirlian image in digital form to aid visualization and probe for disease identification. The diagnosis and treatment process are fast, reproducible and cost-effective. EPI technique works using computational models of human health state, commonly before and after a course of treatment or meditation. The reliability and efficacy of EPI are validated by the physician’s perceptions using biomedical measurements. At the same time, the algorithms developed by engineers embedded in the imaging system have advanced gradually with the help of clinical data from physicians. To close the gap between engineering and medicine, the field of research known as ‘Biomedical Engineering’ (BME) has been established to merge engineering principles with medicine in order to advance = diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring, which will in turn improves quality of life of mankind. Engineering approach is used to study on how the captured image indicates the energy level of human biofield. This elementary analysis introduces a pre-processing procedure to extract the effects texture. The image indicates the radiation energy level based on its most significant glow (digitallyimaged isolines) and is used for medical biometrics and health analysis.

Elementary Teachers’ Uses and Perceptions of Interactive Whiteboards for Instruction

This research examines several public school teachers’ perceptions and usage of interactive whiteboards (IWBs). The study was conducted using the conceptual framework of Roger's (2003) theory of diffusion and innovation, Davis’ (1989) technology acceptance model and Ajzen's (1991) theory of planned behavior. Nine public school elementary teachers who used IWB technology in their classrooms for a full academic year were selected as the participants for this research study. The data were collected using two interviews over Skype or phone in conjunction with an analysis of lesson plans snapshots. The teachers’ experiences were classified according to lesson development with IWBs, teaching using IWBs, and assessing students with IWBs . The teacher’s perceptions were categorized as the successful integration of IWBs, pedagogical practices with IWBs, general issues with IWBs, and school support . The study concluded that overall teachers have positive attitudes towards IWBs and see integrating technology as a beneficial aid in their pedagogical practices. In addition, the participants identified the need for professional development, extra planning time for new lessons development, consistent technical support, and upgrades to the technology as essential elements for the successful implementation of IWBs in the classrooms. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.17.8.2

Measuring the nurses’ professional self-concept and its correlation with working stress in Iranian educational Hospitals

Introduction: Professional self-concept is defined as an individual’s perception of self as a professional person, which affects different aspects of professional performance. This study was aimed to investigate the professional self-concept and its relation to work stress in a sample of Iranian nurses. Methods: This research is a cross-sectional study using Cowin's 36-item questionnaire of professional self-concept and the Expanded Nursing Stress Scale (ENSS) in three educational hospitals of Yazd, Iran. A total of 150 nurses were included. We used descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation coefficient for data analysis in SPSS 22.Results: The analysis of gathered data was done separately for included hospitals due to the nature of the study. Only in one hospital, a statistical relationship was found between professional self-concept and nursing stress while in the other two hospitals, the same relationship was not statistically significant. This finding may be due to different working conditions in different types of hospitals.Conclusion: Although the definitive confirmation of the relationship between professional self-concept and working stress requires further studies, the approved effect of professional self-concept on some aspects of nursing stress in the studied hospitals can have important policy implications.

Women Trafficking: Young Women’s Perspectives in West Java, Indonesia

<p class="jkshead1">ABSTRACT</p>West Java province is the most contributors of women trafficking cases in Indonesia. Women trafficking threaten women in all age group, including young women. However, little is known young women’s perspectives of women trafficking especially in West Java region. The aim of this study was to determine young women’s perspectives of the impact of trafficking, and their actions to prevent it. This was a descriptive quantitative study. This study involved 361 young women ages 15-17 who chosen using the stratified random sampling technique. Respondents filled up questionnaire. Data were analysed using distribution of frequency. The study revealed that 65% of young women perceived that trafficking had negative impact to their health, and 71 % of them were also of the view that individual prevention was necessary. However, only 30 % of them perceived the importance of social support actions to prevent women trafficking. This study conclude that young women had different perceptions about impact of trafficking and actions to prevent it. There is a need of effective strategies to improve social support for preventing women’s trafficking. Enhancing women’s awareness, perceptions, and knowledge of human trafficking especially in West Java is also necessary.

MARKETER’S PRICING STRATEGY VS. COMPETITION LAW

Marketers put greater emphasis in pricing strategy during their marketing planning simply because pricing is one of the most important elements of marketing mix that can generate revenue. Formulating of product or service prices is a strategic activity because the price or prices assigned to a product or range of products will create an impact on consumer’s perception towards a company’s products and determine its subsequent purchase. Marketers need to exercise creativity in pricing strategy in order to attract consumer’s positive perceptions and purchase decisions. As a result, various pricing strategies have been introduced for products and services such as value-based pricing, bundle pricing, price skimming, penetration pricing, competitors oriented pricing, and discriminatory pricing to name a few. By applying all these creative pricing strategies, to great extent have enable marketers to compete effectively as well as to win over consumer’s perception in purchase decisions. On one hand, it is an effective strategy for the marketers to succeed in business. But on the other hand it may be unfavourable to the consumers especially when there are unfair trading practices occurred on the pricing strategies implemented. In this situation it is classified as anti-competition and abuse of dominant position. In order to protect both the business-to-business consumers and end consumers, the Malaysian government has implemented the Competition Act 2010 which came into force on 1 January 2012 with the aim to control anti-competition and abuse of dominant position. The Competition Act 2010 is changing the way marketers formulating and implementing their pricing strategies. This is because the Competition Act 2010 has specific clauses in prohibiting enterprises in setting prices by exploiting consumer’s position for their profiteering advantage. Hence, marketers are presently caught in a difficult position when formulating pricing strategy which at the same time has to comply with the Competition Act 2010. To date, limited review has been conducted on marketer’s pricing strategy vis-à -vis competition Act pricing policy. The purpose of this paper is to compare the marketer’s pricing strategy and competition Act pricing policy and to evaluate how the relevant sections of the competition Act impact marketer’s pricing decisions. In the conclusion, non-pricing strategies are recommended to counter the competition Act pricing policy prohibitions.

Teacher’s Perception of Literacy Program: Its Implication to Their Attitudes and Actions

Teachers as the tip of lance play important roles in the success of the implementation of school literacy program such as possessing positive perception of literacy practices. Recognizing the important roles of teachers in the implementation of literacy program in the schools, this study aims to investigate the teachers‟ perception toward the implementation of literacy program at a Junior High School in Surabaya. This study is designed as an interpretative qualitative approach. Primary data were obtained through open interviews and observations and supplementary data source included student journal. The data findings showed that teachers have positive perceptions on literacy program. They argue that school literacy program potentially enables to build up the students‟ good habits. Through the habituation of a thirty-minute reading before the class, it can raise the students‟ awareness on literacy - reading and writing. Moreover, the school literacy program benefits the students‟ competency in understanding long texts and can help them to be more critical and creative. In addition, instead of students who take advantageous from the literacy program, teachers are also equally benefited from exposure to daily literacy practices within the school. The teachers tend to follow the rhymes of the literacy practices which are marked by reading and writing activities. In this sense, literacy practices facilitate teachers to develop their practical writing abilities and increase their awareness to be the role model in the classrooms particularly in the literacy practices. This study emphasizes that literacy practices can be double blades, on one side it is beneficial for the students and on another side it is advantageous for the teachers

Kesehatan Mental dan Koping Strategi di Kudangan, Kecamatan Delang, Kabupaten Lamandau Kalimantan Tengah: Suatu Studi Sosiodemograf

Mental health is state of physical, mental and social wellbeing which is allows everyone to live productively in social and financial context so that they can contribute to their community. In 2013 mmental health is still remaining as a serious problem in Indonesia. Many people with mental disorder. About 18.2 % people with mental disorder in rural area were experienced pasung, as well as 10.2 % of people who lived in urban area. Mental disorder is commonly occurred when a person failed to cope and facing the life situations. It needs a right coping strategy to prevent any mental disorder. The purpose of this study is to  find out people’s perception about mental health and the chosen of coping strategy. This study used a qualitative method with fenomenology study design conducted in Kudangan, Delang, lamandau district, central Borneo. Research do it from June to July 2017. Eight participant research were included in this study which was determined through purposive sampling technique. Data collection is done by field research (field research) that is by passive observation and deep interview with semi structured form. The data were then processed and analyzed using phenomenological analysis. The result of this research is the finding of 6 categories related to participant's perception of mental health, realize self ability, attachment between self and environment, and coping strategy.

Tinjauan tentang Persepsi Mahasiswa terhadap Pelayanan Sistem Informasi Akademik IAIN Purwokerto

One of the hallmarks in modernization is the technological development in all fields. This development is also reach the university environment particularly in the field of academic services. Internet – based academic services are continuously improved to achieve maximum services. This IAIN Purwokerto SIA system study was conducted to get an overview of the academic services based on internet platform. Objective of this study is to get an illustration of student’s perceptions towards academic information system services at IAIN Purwokerto. This research is quantitative descriptive type of study. Population of this study is students at IAIN Purwokerto. Total sample are 48 and randomly selected. Questionnaires were distributed to all respondents who are assumed representing the population of IAIN Purwokerto students. Result shows that 64.6% of students percepting that online academic services is considered as a useful services, 35.4% very useful, and 0% stated that it is very useless. Only 2,1% of them stated that the quality of online academic services is not very good. 41.7% not good, 56.3% stated that it is a good services. 2.1% Student’s said that the accessibility of academic services is very difficult. 25% said that it is difficult, 70.8% stated that is easy, 2.1% stated that it is very easy one. 10.4% of the students stated that there are no need of additional feature on online academic services, 0% stated that it is extremely unnecessary, 60,4% necessary, and 29,2 others stated that it is very necessary. 2,1% of the these students said that they never encountered any problem on the internet system, 52,1% occasionally encountered problems, 16,7% quite problematic, 29,2% very often problematic. 0% said that this internet system is very unnecessary to be improved, 2,1% no need improvement, 31,3% system’s improvement is necessary, and 66,7% highly needs improvement.

Texting and Educating on Lifestyle Therapy: A Pilot Study in a Spanish-Speaking Population in North Carolina

Background: Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in Hispanic populations, largely due to the prevalence of risk factors such as diabetes and hypertension. Literature supports the use of mobile technology, particularly text messaging, as a nontraditional means to provide targeted health coaching and positively impact cardiovascular health.Methods: The primary objective of this prospective cohort study was to determine the impact of an educational texting program on participants’ blood pressure and confidence in managing their health. A total of 32 participants for this study were recruited via six weekly announcements during the Spanish Mass at a Catholic Church. Eligible patients were 18 years or older, owned a mobile phone with unlimited text messages, and provided informed consent. Following study enrollment, participants completed a pre-survey that described demographic characteristics, cardiovascular-related medical conditions, preference for English or Spanish messages, and confidence in managing their own health; investigators recorded the participants’ blood pressure at baseline. Participants received two messages per week focused on lifestyle modifications for 20 weeks. At study conclusion, a total of 7 participants completed a post-survey assessing participant’s perception of the program and a final blood pressure was recorded. The Siegel-Tukey was used to assess pre- and post-surveys; Wilcoxon signed-rank assessed pre- and post-blood pressure measurements.Results: There were no differences in confidence measured before and after intervention. Participants who completed the post-survey found the messages to be helpful, ranking the messages 9/10 in terms of helpfulness, and 86% expressed interest in continuing their enrollment. There was a decrease in systolic blood pressure from pre-hypertensive to normal range (131 to 118 mmHg).Conclusions: This pilot study exemplifies the potential benefits of a text messaging platform to provide health coaching.

Mentoring Kolaborasi Instruktur Klinik Berhubungan dengan Persepsi terhadap Pendidikan Interprofesi

Interprofessional collaboration is required to optimize health care. Interprofessional Education (IPE) is one of the strategies to prepare the collaboration skill since at educational stage. The implementation of IPE in the clinical setting can be conducted through the implementation of mentoring collaboration by CI. This study is to examine the relationship between perception of IPE and implementation of mentoring collaboration among Clinical Instructors (CI) in Banyumas Hospital. A cross-sectional study invited total of 175 CI’s to participate. Interdisciplinary Education Perception Scale (IEPS), and the modified Clinical Instructor Behavior Instrument (CIBI) were administered to measure the perception and the mentoring collaboration respectively. Results showed the majority of diploma degree in nursing (65.1 %) and over three years (77.0 %) experience as CI. Female CI population was slightly higher than the male (56.3 % compared to 43.7 %). The average score of CI’s perception of IPE was 83.63 %. Meanwhile, the average score of implementation of mentoring collaboration was 81.83 %. There was a significant relationship between perception of IPE and mentoring collaboration among CIs (p = 0.000 and r= 0.313). It concluded that there was a relationship between perception of IPE and the implementation of mentoring collaboration by CIs in Banyumas Hospital

Factors Affecting the Students’ Coping Strategy Dealing with National Nurse Competence Examination: Which are More Related?

<span>National nurse competency examination (UKNI) aims to measure standards of nurses approved with Nurse’s Register License. This examination could induce anxieties that affect students’ readiness, performance and graduation. The objective of this study was to describe coping strategy in dealing with national nurse competency examination and its related factors which are anxiety and perception. A descriptive study was performed on 80 nursing students at clinical rotation nursing program who enrolled in March 2017’s nurse competency examination. German Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI-G), Perception Questionnaire and Coping Strategy Indicators (CSI) were used to measure exam anxiety, student’s perception and coping strategy respectively. The results show that regarding to students’ perception, 37 students (46,3%) demonstrated good perception and the rest (58,7%) showed poor perception. Forty two students (52.5%) experienced low anxiety and the rest (47.5%) experienced high anxiety. In regards to coping strategy in dealing with competence examination, 44 students were in good category (55%), while 36 students (45%) were in poor category. This study implies that information about the national nurse competence examination should be provided as earlier as possible, so that students could make adequate preparation.</span>

The Impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and relationship marketing on relationship maintainer and customer loyalty by mediating role of customer satisfaction

CSR has become one of the imperative implements in satisfying customers. The impartial of this research is to calculate CSR, relationship marketing, and customer satisfaction. There is no more study accompanied in Pakistan to quantify the effect of CSR and relationship marketing on the relationship maintainer and customer loyalty. To find out deductive approach and survey method is used as research approach and research strategy respectively. This research design is descriptive and quantitative study. For data, collection questionnaire method with semantic differential scale and seven point scales are adopted. Data has been collected by adopting the non-probability convenience technique as sampling technique and the sample size is 400. For factor confirmatory factor analysis, structure equation modeling and medication analysis, regression analysis Amos software were used. Strong empirical evidence supports that the customer’s perception of CSR performance is highly influenced by the values