Digital Commons Network^™

The 2007 Chinese Pet Food Crisis: On U.S. Media’S Coverage And U.S. Pet-Owners Reactions, May Hongmei Gao

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

In the midst of U.S. citizens’ growing concern of food quality, few issues have shocked the American conscience as the 2007 pet food crisis. The crisis, caused by the contamination of mainly pet food with ingredients imported from China, resulted in the largest recall in U.S. history. Poisonous chemicals such as “melamine,” “aminopterin,” and “cyanuric acid” were identified in pet food products imported from China. The pet food contamination was eventually extended to the feed for fish, pigs, and chicken, animals destined to be part of human food supply. This research showed that most American families own cats and dogs …

India Us Business Ethics, Rebecca Lefebvre

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

The U.S. and India are on opposite sides of the world, yet in today’s globalized world they might as well be next door neighbors. The commonalities in democratic governments and the use of English in official matters can make doing business transactions across borders easy between India and the U.S. At the same time, the cultural differences should not be ignored. This paper explores the impact of cultural differences between the U.S. and India in the particular area of business ethics. A comparative analysis is performed on the business codes of conduct from fifty major corporations in each country revealing …

Social Entrepreneurship: Promoting Social Growth Via Non-Profits, Sudhanva V. Char

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

This paper makes out a case for granting a wider mandate for social enterprises and non-profits (SEN) in China as an institutional remedy to solve China’s social and societal issues: pollution, regimented labor and the “tragedy of the commons” on account ‘smokestack’ industrialization. It first draws attention to a) overlooked aspects of rapid growth with reference to 16% of population at the bottom of the income pyramid that missed the growth boat and b) harm otherwise done to elementary resources such as air and water and c) need for deregulation under the ‘one country, two systems.’

Measuring Capacity Utilization And Evaluating The Impact Of Liberalization On Capacity Utilization Of Indian Drug And Pharmaceutical Industry, Sarba P. Ray

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

India has undertaken various reform programs since 1991 in order to make the economy competitive and to meet the global challengers. This paper examines the trends in capacity utilization in the Indian pharmaceutical sector during pre and post-reform period. It is suggested that while making policy decisions on the basis of aggregate, the consideration of intra-sectoral analysis may be attempted in order to have more valuable results because generalization based on aggregative analysis sometimes fails to pave the way for improved decision making.

Cultural Competence In Transnational Settings & Quality Education For American Indians: Anatomy Of Challenges, Kay Traille, Brittani K. Roy

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

This article juxtaposes the lived experiences of two educators newly immersed in very different work environments. One of the educators, one coming from a British education background, looks at the anomalies of communication, work practice, and student expectations at a university located in the southern United States. The second educator, working in a K-12 school system on an American-Indian reservation in Arizona, looks at the challenges of NCLB, ELL, curricula, assessment methods, dropout rates, and funding. Upon examination of the issues of a quality and fair education for American Indians, it becomes clear that teachers have to bring an existential-phenomenological …

Overview Of Literature Relevant To Information And Communication Technology Based Healthcare Design In Rural China, Jiehui Jiang, Prabhu Kandachar, Adinda Freudenthal

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

ICT healthcare design in rural China is a special topic in product development, and various outputs about ICT, healthcare and rural China from literature are relevant to it. In this paper the author reviews those publications and defines three domains: Design for Base of the Pyramid, User Centered Design and ICT healthcare design. After studying these papers, the author founds out that none of exiting design models can be directly adapted into ICT healthcare design in rural China because some knowledge gaps have not been bridged yet now. As a discussion, the author proposes three investigation areas for the future …

Measuring Development Through Women’S Empowerment: A Case Of Comparison, Brazil & Bolivia, Stephanie Roberts, Kishore G. Kulkarni

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

In the past several decades there has been a growing awareness of the importance of women’s empowerment in overall development. It is not sufficient to consider only economic growth, but rather we must also look to human development (and specifically that of women) when observing progress in any country. This can be difficult to define and measure, as one must be sensitive to cultural and historical differences as well as overall standards of living for a society. However, even considering these differences, it is essential that women be equal partners in the development process for their nations to truly be …

Performance Measurement In An Era Of New Public Management, Andrew I.E. Ewoh

Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets

The last two decades have witnessed a proliferation of scholarly discourse on performance management. This discourse evolved out of a number of forces in the early 1990s from the new public management movement, which called for government to show its efficiency in expending public resources as well as prove that substantive results—or outcomes related to a program’s effectiveness—had been generated by its activities. As federal agencies developed performance standards at the program level as well as in the management and administrative functions, state governments and their localities were compelled to adopt the same measures as a method of assessing their …

Staff Council Executive Committee Meeting, 10/11/2011, Unm Staff Council

UNM Staff Council

No abstract provided.

Staff Council Faculty Staff Benefits Committee Meeting, 10/11/2011, Unm Staff Council

UNM Staff Council

No abstract provided.

The Bates Student - Volume 141 Number 03 - October 11, 2011, Bates College

The Bates Student

No abstract provided.

Breaking Bad News In Healthcare Organizations: Application Of The Spikes Protocol, C. W. Vonbergen, Robert E. Stevens, David Loudon

Administrative Issues Journal

Organizational downsizing has increased exponentially worldwide and is also affecting the healthcare industry. It is one thing to speak abstractly of the need to reduce costs and quite another to actually tell a worker the bad news that he or she has been laid off. This paper offers practical advice to healthcare managers on conducting unpleasant conversations with employees based on a widely used medical model—the SPIKES protocol. This strategy has been extensively employed by physicians and other health care professionals who frequently communicate negative information to patients and is offered as an approach that can be easily and effectively …

October 11, 2011, Civil Service Council

2011

No abstract provided.

Henry V. Department Of Correction Agency's Record Dckt. 39039

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Stony Brook Press, V. 33, N. 03, Stony Brook University. Stony Brook Press.

Stony Brook Press

v. 33, n. 03, v.:ill. ; 38 cm (original analog pub.)

Aed, Inc. V. Kdc Investments, Llc Clerk's Record V. 2 Dckt. 38603

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Implementation Of A Novel Continuous Fetal Doppler (Moyo) Improves Quality Of Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring In A Resource-Limited Tertiary Hospital In Tanzania: An Observational Study, Benjamin A. Kamala, Hege L. Ersdal, Ingvild Dalen, Muzdalfat Abeid, Matilda M. Ngarina, Jeffrey M. Perlman, Hussein Kidanto

Faculty of Health Sciences, East Africa

Background

Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate (FHR) monitoring is crucial for the early detection of abnormal FHR, facilitating timely obstetric interventions and thus the potential reduction of adverse perinatal outcomes. We explored midwifery practices of intrapartum FHR monitoring pre and post implementation of a novel continuous automatic Doppler device (the Moyo).

Methodology

A pre/post observational study among low-risk pregnancies at a tertiary hospital was conducted from March to December 2016. In the pre-implementation period, intermittent monitoring was conducted with a Pinard stethoscope (March to June 2016, n = 1640 women). In the post-implementation period, Moyo was used for continuous FHR monitoring …

October 11, 2011

The Gavel Gazette

No abstract provided.

Dancing With The Silver Stars Ii Event Set For Nov. 7, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

The Current Volume 22 : Issue 8, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Student Senate Meeting Minutes, October 11, 2011, Eastern Michigan University

Student Government

No abstract provided.

Idaho Dept Of Health And Welfare V. Mccormick Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 38694

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Juvenile Penalties For “Lawyering Up”: The Role Of Counsel And Extralegal Case Characteristics, Gaylene Armstrong, Bitna Kim

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

The presence of counsel for juveniles in the courtroom seems advantageous from a due process perspective, yet some studies suggest that juveniles receive harsher dispositions when represented by an attorney. This study tested whether a “counsel penalty” existed regardless of attorney type and, guided by prior sentencing literature, used a more comprehensive model to determine the influence of extralegal and contextual factors that may amplify the counsel penalty. Utilizing official data from a Northeastern state in a multilevel modeling strategy, this study found that regardless of the type of counsel retained, harsher sentences were received as compared with cases in …

Burden Of Traumatic Spine Fractures In Tehran, Iran., Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Mohammad R Rasouli, Alexander Vaccaro, Soheil Saadat, Mohammad R Zarei, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar

Rothman Institute Papers

UNLABELLED: ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND: The Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) was designed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to measure, compare, and analyze the burden of various diseases. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study on the assessment of burden of traumatic spinal fracture (TSF) in an Iranian community. We estimated burden of TSF includes both isolated (iTSF) and associated injuries related to traumatic spinal fractures (aTSF) in Tehran, the capital of Iran, for the year 2006-2007 using DALYs.

METHODS: Burden of TSF was estimated based on information provided by the national data on Iranian trauma, data from …

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, October 11, 2011, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The October 11, 2011, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.

Idaho Dept. Of Health & Welfare V. Mccormick Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 38694

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Detection Of Cancer By Elevated Levels Of Bcl-2, Patricia A. Kruk

USF Patents

The present invention relates to a method for the diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of cancer, such as early or late stage ovarian cancer, in a subject by detecting Bcl-2 in a biological sample from the subject, preferably a urine or blood sample. Bcl-2 may be measured using an agent that detects or binds to Bcl-2 protein or an agent that detects or binds to encoding nucleic acids, such as antibodies specifically reactive with Bcl-2 protein or a portion thereof. The invention further relates to kits for carrying out the methods of the invention. The invention further relates to a device …

Effects Of Homophobic Versus Nonhomophobic Victimization On School Commitment And The Moderating Effect Of Teacher Attitudes In Brazilian Public Schools, Mandi M. Alexander, Jonathan Bruce Santo, Josafá Da Cunha, Lidia Weber, Stephen T. Russell

Psychology Faculty Publications

This study investigated homophobic victimization, teacher support, and school commitment in Brazilian schools. Participants were 339 students, ages 11 to 18 years old, in two public schools in Brazil. Data were obtained using the Brazil Preventing School Harassment Survey. Structural equation modeling revealed that both homophobic and nonhomophobic victimization were negatively related to school commitment but that homophobic victimization was a stronger predictor. Results supported the hypothesis that supportive teachers can moderate the relationship between victimization and school commitment. Finally, the moderating effect of teacher support was stronger in instances of frequent homophobic victimization.

The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, October 11, 2011, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

October

No abstract provided.

The Sun Star, Vol. 31 No. 06 (October 11, 2011), N/A N/A

Sun Star

No abstract provided.