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25
May
2015

Employer Branding and Reputation From A Strategic Human Resource Management Perspective

Communications of the IBIMA
Although reputation management literature has been dominated by marketing and communications-led perspectives, there is anagreementthat corporate reputation and good governance are often built from the internal towards external stakeholders. Lately, balancing the usage of social media as opposed  to conventional media has demanded both human…
25
May
2015

Towards a new sustainable status quo for Ethical awareness & practice in Large Corporate & SME’s using IT as a central facilitator of operations in the Middle East & North African region

The MENA Journal of Business Case Studies
This paper examines ethical awareness in the large Corporate & SME IT sector of the Middle East & North African (MENA) region. It uses the prevalence of corporate codes of conduct in the industry to analytically ascertain the level of ethical awareness. The literature is…
25
May
2015

Supporting and Supplemental Learning Intervention Strategies (SSi) In Introductory Accounting Classes

Journal of Accounting and Auditing: Research & Practice
Our goal is to measure the overall perceived effectiveness of supporting and supplemental instruction (SSI) in a more critical teaching pedagogy. SSI focused on improving student performance explicit in an effort to foster measurable improvements in students’ failure rates and student retention rates in the…
25
May
2015

Primary Malignant Melanoma of the Rectum: Long-Term Disease-Free Survival Following Abdomino-Perineal Resection

International Journal of Gastroenterology Research and Practice
Objective: Primary Malignant Melanoma (PMM) arising from the digestive, respiratory or genitourinary tract is extremely rare. Rectal PMM accounts for less than 1% of all melanomas; it is often advanced at initial presentation with a poor prognosis with a 5-year survival below 20%. Treatment of…
22
May
2015

Predictors of Recurrence in Patients with High-Risk Pathology after Prostatectomy

International Journal of Research in Urology
Background: To determine the pattern of recurrence in patients with high-risk pathology at radical prostatectomy and to identify disease characteristics associated with clinical and biochemical recurrence (BCR).  Methods: We identified 893 patients who underwent radical prostatectomy between January 2000 and June 2009 with pathologic T3N0…
19
May
2015

What We Ignore During ERP Implementation Activity?

Journal of Enterprise Resource Planning Studies
Many scholars have proposed all kinds researches of key successful factors (KSFs) for successfully implementing ERP, but which are quite conceptual and vague, caused enterprises couldn’t apply it in practical and achieve objectives. Therefore, this research presents the required dynamic capability for each factor by…
08
May
2015

Hygienic Quality of Minced Meat Retailed in Western Algeria

Journal of Virology and Microbiology
The meat is regarded as one of the main sources of food-borne diseases; its evaluation can constitute a valuable source of information that can be used in the design of the collective prophylaxis programs in public health. The purpose of this study consisted in evaluating…
30
Apr
2015

The Efficacy of Subgingivally Delivered Andrographis Paniculata Gel to Treat Patients with Periodontitis

Journal of Research and Practice in Dentistry
This study compared the clinical effects of scaling and root planing (SRP) after the adjunctive subgingival administration of Andrographis paniculata (AP) gel or placebo (PB) gel in a 6-month clinical trial for patients with chronic periodontitis. The study was a split-mouth, single-blind, randomized and controlled…
27
Apr
2015

The Management of Children with Gastroesophageal Reflux and Respiratory Symptoms

International Journal of Gastroenterology Research and Practice
Research Motivation: Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a well-recognised cause of respiratory symptoms in children. Confirming a diagnosis of reflux aspiration remains difficult, due to limitations in currently available investigations. The presence of pepsin in respiratory secretions has been documented in literature as a marker…
24
Apr
2015

Rethinking the Roles of Professionalism and Administrative Acts in Organisations

Journal of South African Business Research
Organisations depend on the administrative process to carry out their goals and objectives, for the purposes of competitiveness and sustainability. As such, administrative functions are considered to be critical in the organisations. Hence, many organisations have little or no “room” for the malfunctioning of their…