Purpose: The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate and analyze the implementation of information systems in general and core banking systems in particular while addressing the challenging issues faced during such implementations and the critical factors necessary for th…
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Achieving millennium development goal 4 (the reduction of child mortality by two-thirds by 2015) does not require new science and technology. Rather, it demands the expansion and implementation of evidenced based practices throughout Indonesia to reach the large and diverse popu…
The basic premise of Building Information Modeling (BIM) is to use and share the digital model of a project as a source of information for all participants, in order to simulate and analyze potential problems during the project's life-cycle, from conception to operation. BIM is …
The Last Planner System (LPS) challenges the old practices of developing schedules and pushing them from top management down to front line people to execute. It advocates collaborative planning, performing collaborative constraint analysis, and learning from plan failures. The L…
With the enactment of Bill C-3 (The DNA Identification Act) in December of 1998, Canadian law enforcement agencies will begin banking an annual estimate of 28,000 to 98,000 profiles (established using STR technology) obtained from individuals convicted of primary and secondary d…
Schizophrenia is a severe and chronic disorder in many cases. The illness can impact on the whole family. Family interventions are a psychosocial treatment for schizophrenia. A robust evidence base has developed supporting the use of family interventions, as reduced relapse and …
This study focuses on the factors which explain Abu Dhabi Education Council’s (Adec) English curriculum choice in grade ten and eleven public high schools in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It investigates the challenges its implementation poses for teachers personally and profe…
Background: Care of premature infants is challenging for health care professionals. When the preterm infant is separated from its mother the parent-child interaction is impeded. In the last few decades, there has been increasing interest in the effectiveness of massage as an int…
This study analysed the strategies of selected National Governing Bodies (NGBs) and voluntary sport clubs (VSCs) in the process of policy implementation of Sport England s generic Clubmark (a quality mark accreditation framework). Within the overarching Clubmark framework, other…
This thesis focuses on e-government implementation and related institutional adoption and diffusion factors in Omani public sector organisations. With the advancement of the Internet and supporting Information and Communication Technologies, e-government has emerged as an effect…
Healthcare professionals such as speech and language therapists are expected to change their practice throughout their career. However, from a practice perspective, there is a lack of knowledge around what practice change is, what it really takes, and why there are different tra…
This thesis reports an insider case study conducted by an active participant in the setting which is the UHI Millennium Institute. UHI is a federal, collegial partnership of 13 academic partner colleges. This partnership is made up of Further Education Colleges and smaller and s…
Two international treaty frameworks - Amended Protocol II (APII) to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC) - have been developed to prohibit or restrict the use of landmines. However, reflecting a gap in current academic…
In June 2006, the Government of Indonesia introduced a new agricultural extension approach called Participatory Extension. It has been eight years since the policy was introduced and long enough to determine how well the policy is working. Therefore, this study assessed the effe…
The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT), with the help of the Western Regional Superpave Center (WRSC) began steps toward implementing the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG). NDOT is transitioning from AASHTO 1993 design methods to the newer state of the …
Managing the symptoms of cancer effectively is one of the most important challenges facing health care providers. Many symptoms are reported by cancer patients, including, pain, depression, distress and change in life style. Pain continues to be the most frequently reported symp…
This thesis investigates the influence of firms’ internal and external environmental factors upon their adoption of HRIS behaviour (i.e., the variation between adopters and non-adopters) and the level of implementation of HRIS applications and its effectiveness. An integrated co…
Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been considered as a key for health care quality. EBP is defined as a problem-solving approach to clinical practice by the integration of systematic search and critical appraisal of the most current evidence to answer clinical questions while co…
One of the objectives of the revised National Health Policy, 2016 is to expand and sustain routine immunization coverage of all antigens to 90% by the year 2020 so as to improve the life expectancy and quality of life of Nigerians which begins at infancy. To this end, Government…