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THE EFFECT OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION ON CONFLICT MANAGEMENT

Statement of Problem: The Business Process Reengineering Team conducted a redesign of the Inpatient Discharge Process at a 660-bedded hospital in the largest metropolis of Pakistan. The study aimed to optimize bed utilization by ensuring 85% discharges before 2 pm. Analysis revealed that, discharging patients was not a priority for medical teams and significant delays in discharging patients was the result of an inefficient process. Additionally, there was weak communication between medical and administrative teams, delays in doctor rounds, bill finalization, lab and radiology workups, pharmacy preparation and patient logistics. The discharge process took up to 8 hours, of which 70% time was spent in non-value adding activities. The hospital was losing 240,000 bed hours annually.The brain tumor detection continues to be a challenge owing to the complexity of its symptoms. The research era indicates the tumor diagnosis and identification of tumor exact indicators are still uncertain. These tumors can appear anywhere in the brain and have any kind of shape, size, and contrast. The brain tumor exploration with deep learning is a solution for flexible, high capacity and extreme efficiency. The deep learning is an application of the artificial intelligence with multiple layers helping to predict the outcome of the disease early detection. This paper presents an approach to recognize the indicators and show that deep learning drops error rate for brain tumor diagnoses by 80%. 1Assistant Professor (Research Scholar), Secunderabad, India 2Defence Research and Development Organization, Hyderabad, India 3Hyderabad Spine Clinics, Hyderabad, India 4ME (VLSI), Manipal University, Karnataka, India *Corresponding author Prisilla Jayanthi G, Assistant Professor (Research Scholar), Secunderabad, India, E-mail: prisillaj28@gmail.com Submitted: 04 Dec 2017; Accepted: 11 Dec 2017; Published: 04 Jan 2018OBJECTIVE To evaluate the satisfaction of participants and the effectiveness of an enhanced and relatively formal type of peer assisted learning (PAL) in postgraduate (PG) setting. STUDY DESIGN An observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Layton Rehmat Ullah Benevolent Trust, Eye Hospital, Sargodha between 2008 and 2009. METHODOLOGY Participants were 6 medical officers and 2 consultants. Resources and sessions were defined and the curriculum agreed through consensus between all peers. Thirty clinically relevant topics on diseases, techniques and practicals were selected for PAL sessions. A 26-item questionnaire was used to evaluate PAL on Likert-scale. It also included a free text question about one strength and one weakness of PAL. The participants consented to all aspects of multi-resource PAL and they completed a questionnaire, from which data was gathered and analysed to reveal the impact of course. RESULTS As a peer group they were satisfied with the teamwork experience. Seven out of eight peers reported to have increased their motivation level. In addition, as a peer tutor all peers accepted that the course equipped them with teaching skills and that teaching skills should be learnt. Similarly, as a peer tutee, they believe that peer assistance in a multiresource format had a positive impact on their learning and their difficult issues were unravelled. Finally, facilitated small group teaching, discussion and summing-up helped the peers to comprehend a given clinical topic. CONCLUSION A pilot multi-resource PAL was evaluated and the participants appraised the course favourably and recommended it to their colleagues. The interest and zeal shown by the participants suggests that further investigation through a larger, prospective study is warranted.T main aim of this research was to study the consumer protection performance and its association with motivations and organizational supports of health personnel in sub-district health promoting hospitals, Khon Kaen province, Thailand. Consumer protection performance is a key burden of sub-district health promoting hospitals in Thailand. It is undertaken to enhance the immunity that is affected from deceived products and unsuitable services. A cross-sectional research design quantitative method using questionnaire as an instrument was utilized in this study. A total of 162 health personnel were selected as respondents using simple random sampling technique. The data collection period was from January to February 2014. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The result of the study revealed that all the study variables including motivation, organizational support and consumer protection performance were at high level. In addition, Pearson correlation coefficients indicated that motivation and organizational support have significant, positive, and moderate correlation value with consumer protection performance at the significant level of 0.01. The estimated regression equation implying that there are six variables namely material support, motivation factor of work achievement, man support, motivation factor of recognition, maintenance factor of salary and motivation factor of work advancement have an impact on consumer protection performance; thereby qualifying these to be the predictors for the latter. All these factors could predict the consumer protection performance to be 62.5 percent. The obstacles were mostly from the capacity development on consumer protection performance with 71.1 percent.

The effect of leadership styles on professional learning community

The main aim of this study was to investigate the effect of school administrators’ leadership styles on professional learning community in those schools under jurisdiction of the Office of Secondary Educational Service Area 27, Thailand. A total of 3,012 samples consisted of school administrators and teachers were selected from a population of 27,459. A survey quantitative method was employed using questionnaire which was constructed by researchers as an instrument to collect data. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics like frequency, percentage, mean score, standard deviation, correlation Pearson Product Moment Coefficient and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The results of the study indicated that all five leadership styles of school administrator were at high level particularly supportive leadership style. However reward and punishment leadership style was found to be the most unpopular leadership style. On the other hand, all the aspects of professional learning community were found to be at high level too. The highest mean score was learning enhancement and information technology whereas the lowest mean score was team empowerment. Implementation of professional learning community was significantly affected by three types of leadership style at significant level of 0.01. The significant predictors of professional learning community were reward and punishment, directive, and charismatic leadership styles. The multiple regression coefficient was 0.836 and the predictive power was 69.9 per cent. Finally, this paper also provided recommendations and suggestions for future research.

Preparing Lesson Plans: Preschool Teachers as Instructional Designers

provide brief guidelines for planning each stage of a lesson select appropriate teaching techniques provide sample templates that are useful for planning lessons.