Ways to activate and improve job empowerment among academic leader’s in Iraqi universities

The study aimed to explore strategies for enhancing and augmenting job empowerment levels among academic leaders in Jordanian universities. The research followed a qualitative approach, wherein the researcher conducted interviews with 15 academic career leaders from this group. These strategies encompassed several aspects: Facilitating administrative communication to bridge the gap between university administration and academic leadership while accommodating individual desires, needs, and preferences. Leveraging modern tools and methods for job empowerment. Empowering self-management through the formation of a dedicated team to make informed decisions. Fostering a positive work environment to enhance personal and professional equilibrium. Actively seeking and implementing feedback mechanisms, a critical requirement for Jordanian universities. The interview results produced seven recommendations to activate and enhance empowerment among academic leaders: Introducing university academic leaders to pertinent laws and regulations while providing training for their effective implementation. Conducting regular assessments of the empowerment experience to identify shortcomings and communicate them to staff. Acknowledging and celebrating the successes of employees

Enhancing the Decisions of the Ministry of Water Resources in Iraq: The Role of Human Resources and Technology

Introduction Email communication in the administrative field represents an essential means for making sound administrative decisions. It is a necessity for achieving individual collaboration (fahmi&ali, 2022). Continuous interaction with the institutional environment, where challenges are significant, such as competition and change, has become a part of customers' work styles and trends today. Technological changes lead successful organizations to make changes in their administrative processes to adapt to the environment (putra&ali, 2022). As change and development occur permanently, there is a need for new communication and development methods (Haitao, 2021) to increase efficiency, effectiveness, success, and organizational development. Today, electronic communications are one of the important and indispensable resources for making administrative decisions. The communication process is closely related in human interaction to achieve communication, transfer, and exchange of information, events, and experiences.   Electronic communications are considered essential within the organization. Instructions and guidance cannot be conveyed and passed to employees effectively without a proper network. An efficient network helps employees understand and comprehend their rights, duties, and roles, increasing the productivity and effectiveness of the organization (Lertpiromsuk, 2022). The communication process in administrative departments is like a thread that connects different departments and serves as a means of direction and connection between employees in public and private institutions (Chelladurai, & Kim, 2022)

Integration of Evidence Based Medicine into a Medical Curriculum

The College of Medicine at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) was established in January 2004. The four-year curriculum was based on the Problem Based Learning (PBL) format and involved the web-based graduate medical program adopted from the University of Sydney, Australia. At KSAU-HS, one additional semester was added to the beginning of this curriculum to prepare the students in English language skills, PBL, Information Technology and Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). EBM is part of the Personal and Professional Development (PPD) theme of the medical curriculum and is integrated into each stage of the medical curriculum. These modifications of the University of Sydney curriculum are presented here as a model of EBM integration into a college of medicine curriculum

Challenges in the social environment landscape: readiness of youth in embracing diversity

This article discusses the readiness of youth of various races in Malaysia to celebrate diversity in the daily social landscape of society. Youth are at the forefront in facing the challenges of addressing diversity in a multicultural community. The readiness of youth to face diversity is measured using questionnaires. This study involves a total of 600 respondents from secondary schools and higher education institutions. The results showed that generally, the level of respondents’ readiness to accept diversity was high. There were significant differences found in terms of gender, ethnicity and residential locations in which the respondents had their upbringing. The findings were consistent with findings from earlier studies

Policy fairness in national integration: reactions of the new generation

This article discusses the reactions of the Malaysian youth regarding fairness of the national policy towards the inculcation of national integration. The extent to which national policy adopted for the sake of social harmony and multi-ethnic youth’s points of view were measured using a survey instrument with alpha value of .831. A total of 600 respondents were involved in this study. Students from secondary schools and higher education institutions (HEIs) in the Klang Valley were selected at random. The study found a positive reaction shown among the youth in Malaysia in relation to the practice of a fair policy towards strengthening national integration. The study also found that respondents' propensity to assess positively or otherwise of fairness in terms of the practice of policy towards national integration had no direct relationship with a number of selected demographic variables studied. In sum, the reaction of the new generation in Malaysia to conduct of public policy needs to be scrutinized by the government so that the objective to strengthen national integration can be achieved

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin-related cold thigh abscess as an unusual cause of thigh swelling in infants following BCG vaccine administration: a case series

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Thigh swelling in an infant can be a symptom of a simple benign condition or a life-threatening condition. We observed a cluster of thigh swelling episodes in infants in which the cause was Bacillus Calmette-Guérin-related cold thigh abscess. We report this unusual case series to raise awareness about this diagnosis.</p> <p>Case presentations</p> <p>We performed a retrospective review of five infants (four boys and one girl) who presented with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin-related left thigh abscess. The swelling was noticed by the parents at a mean period of three months prior to presentation. The ages at presentation were five, five, eight and nine months for the boys, and six months for the girl. All of the patients were healthy Saudi infants, and received the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine at birth. Clinically, all of the patients were well and did not demonstrate signs of systemic infection. All patients underwent needle aspiration, with subsequent incision and drainage in four of the five cases. The cultures obtained from the abscess fluids were the key to establishing the diagnosis. Only three patients (60%) received antituberculosis drugs. Wound healing lasted for a mean period of approximately seven months. Two-year follow-up was unremarkable for all of our patients.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Technical errors continue to be significant in the development of vaccine-related complications. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin-related cold thigh abscess is an extremely rare entity.</p

Early Childhood Caries among a Bedouin community residing in the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>ECC is commonly prevalent among underprivileged populations. The Jahalin Bedouin are a severely deprived, previously nomadic tribe, dwelling on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem. The aim of this study was to assess ECC prevalence and potentially associated variables.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>102 children aged 12–36 months were visually examined for caries, mothers' anterior dentition was visually subjectively appraised, demographic and health behavior data were collected by interview.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Among children, 17.6% demonstrated ECC, among mothers, 37.3% revealed "fairly bad" anterior teeth. Among children drinking bottles there was about twice the level of ECC (20.3%) than those breast-fed (13.2%). ECC was found only among children aged more than one year (p < 0.001); more prevalent ECC (55.6%) was found among large (10–13 children) families than among smaller families (1–5 children: 13.5%, 6–9 children: 15.6%) (p = 0.009); ECC was more prevalent among children of less educated mothers (p = 0.037); ECC was more prevalent among mothers with "fairly poor" anterior dentition (p = 0.04). Oral hygiene practices were poor.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>ECC levels in this community were not very high but neither low. This changing population might be on the verge of a wider dental disease "epidemic". Public health efforts clearly need to be invested towards the oral health and general welfare of this community.</p

Track D Social Science, Human Rights and Political Science

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