Globally, a call to address escalating mental health challenges among healthcare workers is gaining momentum. Paramedics face persistent daily stress, and they also have a profound sense of duty to save lives, often prioritising others above themselves. Positioned on the frontline, amid intense interactions with patients, families, and bystanders, paramedics have faced particularly profound shifts in healthcare delivery shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a qualitative phenomenological design, this study explores private-sector paramedics’ experiences of flourishing in a post-COVID-19 work environment. A purposive sample of 15 paramedics participated in semi-structured interviews, enabling an in-depth exploration of their emotional landscapes. Thematic analysis identified expanding spheres of influence as the overarching theme, spanning participants’ personal lives, relationships, work environment, professional identity, and broader societal impact. The findings highlight paramedics’ profound commitment to saving lives, deeply rooted in their perceptions of and attitudes towards their chosen profession. This study underscores the multifaceted nature of workplace flourishing in post-pandemic “new-normal” settings, particularly given the ongoing emotional and structural challenges paramedics face. Building on these findings, three critical dimensions emerged as essential to the long-term sustainability of paramedic services in South Africa, especially in terms of countering the prevailing perception of a limited “shelf life” in the profession. These include addressing the paradox between saving others’ lives and preserving one’s well-being, fostering strength-based workplaces that prioritise resilience and growth over deficit-based narratives, and redefining the roles of sectoral role players in ensuring the retaining of skills in the healthcare sector. These insights call for a collaborative effort to reimagine paramedic workplaces to establish thriving and transformed medical services in South Africa.
Tillage is a mechanical operation carried out in soil preparation. In fact, tillage operations improve soil structure, increase soil porosity, distribute soil aggregates better, and, finally, correct soil physical properties. Different tillage methods have different effects on soil physical properties such as apparent specific gravity, mean weight-diameter index of soil aggregates, and the extent of soil inversion. This research was conducted to study the effects of various tillage methods on some of the physical properties of soils. An experiment was carried out for this purpose in the region of Khorramabad in Iran in a wheat field, that had clay loam soil, by using the split plots design in the form of randomized complete block design in three replications. Various tillage practices were employed at the three levels of moldboard plow plus two disking operations plus planting with a deep-furrow drill (the common practice in the region), two disking operations plus planting with a deep-furrow drill, and direct seeding (no- tillage). Obtained results show that tillage method has a significant effect on the mean weight-diameter index of soil aggregates. Of the three tillage practice mentioned above, the second one ( two disking operation plus planting with a deep-furrow drill) provided a suitable seed bed for planting wheat because it created clods with suitable mean weight- diameter and , hence, increased the percentage contact between plant roots and the soil. If the purpose is to have high quality tillage operations resulting in soil inversion and in crushing soil, treatment number 2 (two disking operations plus planting with a deep-furrow drill) is suitable, provided there is enough time for carrying out the required operations.
Introduction: Syndrome of Schizophrenia may have relation with patient’s awareness; therefore his insight may help him on accelerating his recovery. The aim of this paper is to survey the effect of insight and precognition in a case of schizophrenia, during the illness and after its cure, on illness syndrome. Method: the research is a case study upon a person who had experienced schizophrenia, and he has gained his recovery. Ex post facto method has been used during a year through three terms. The case was a B.A. student whom plain schizophrenia was detected with. Duration of the initial curing was 3 months. Means for this research were; insight scale, scale of assessing unawareness of mental disorder, subtlest scale of (MMPI) and semi structuralized interview. Data have been analyzed by mean, variance and t-test. Findings: results showed that the patient who had experienced the illness for one to two years has confessed that after becoming aware of his illness and its syndrome through personal study and experts’ explanations, he gained an insight about the illness. And however it is more than 6 months that he has not used any drugs, the syndrome have been removed and the illness has not reappeared. Difference of t is a sign of recovery of illness syndrome with the certainty of
Fallisia arabica.n.sp.was described from peripheral blood smears of the Skink lizard, Scincus hemprichii from Jazan Province in the southwest of Saudi Arabia. Schizogony and gametogony take place within neutrophils in the peripheral blood of the host. Mature schizont is rosette shaped 17.5±4.1x17.0±3.9µm, with L/W ratio of 1.03(1.02-1.05) µm and produce 24(18-26) merozoites. Young gametocytes are ellipsoidal, 5.5 ± 0.8 x 3.6 ± 0.5µm, with L/W of 1.53(1.44-1.61) µm. Mature macrogametocytes are ellipsoidal, 9.7 ± 1.2 x 7.8 ± 1.0 µm, with L/W of 1.24(1.21- 1.34) µm and microgametocytes are ellipsoidal, 7.0 ± 1.1 x 6.8 ± 0.9µm.with L/W of 1.03(1.01-1.10) µm. In comparison to described Fallisia species, this new taxon has rosette schizonts and is larger than F. dominicensis, in Hispaniola, F. bipocrati, F. poecilopi, in Panama, F. thecadactyli in Venezuela, F. effusa, F. simplex, F. modesta, in Brazil. F. Arabica has fewer merozoites than F. effusa, F. poecilopi, F. thecadactyli and F. siamense in Thailand, (Table1). This new species has more merozoites than F. dominicensis and F. modesta. All of these species belong to diverse saurian families (Agamidae, Gekkonidae, Polychrotidae, Scincidae and Teiidae) parasitise only thrombocytes or lymphocytes and some species parasitise immature erythroid cells and leucocytes.
The diversity of cultured pathogenic bacteria in the bottled mineral water (BMW) was investigated using selective media: mannitol salt agar, Endo agar base, Difcotm pseudomonas isolation agar and Clostridium agar. The pure isolates from these selective media, which showed hemolytic activity on the blood agar media and antibiotic resistance, were identified by 16S rRNA gene technique. Seven strains were obtained. Analysis using the NCBI database revealed that the isolates were belonged to the genus Pseudomonas, Bacillus, Acinetobacter, Stenotrophomonas, and Exiguobacterium, and were mostly closed to the pathogenic strains. The increasing of Ozone concentration from Air-Fed Ozone generators eliminate the growth of bacteria included the pathogenic bacteria, but in other side it increases the amount of nitrates and nitrites in the final product of the BMW. The physical and chemical conditions for all the investigated water samples were nearly the same. These findings revealed that the BMW either has potential pathogenic bacteria or high levels of nitrates and all these products may effect on the health of the end user. This is the first demonstrating that the BMW is a source for potential pathogenic bacteria or high nitrate level.
This study seeks to describe the impact of compensation package on employees’ job attrition. Data from a representative sample of North province secondary school teachers from Maldives (n = 206) were gathered through questionnaires. Multiple and Hierarchical multiple regression analysis were used in this research. This study found significant impacts of some of the components such as intrinsic compensation package on teachers’ attrition. Also found that teachers’ attrition can be minimized if schools put more emphasis on teachers’ intrinsic benefit such as instructional supervision and promotion. Though extrinsic benefits such as salary, merit pay, increment and overtime pay have impact on teachers’ attrition, it is not significant. This study will benefit the policy makers to find the ways of employees’ attrition especially in the countries where attrition is high as much as 11% in Maldives.
The purpose of this paper is to compare the compensation package of teaching profession and corporate sector. The study utilized a mixed method design to investigate the topic. Total 125 respondents were from teaching profession and 141 from corporate sector. Findings reveal that compensation package comprises 60% salary, 10% bonus and 30% other benefits in both sector. In corporate sector, most popular benefit is medical for staff with higher contributions to EPF followed by medical benefits for dependents. Training and education has been found the least popular benefit in the same sector. In teaching profession, the most popular benefit is medical for staff followed by training and development. Finding also shows that choice of popular benefits differs based on marital status. Thus the study revealed that there is a significant contrast in value of education and development between corporate and teaching profession. This study will give insight to the policy makers to choose the popular benefit for their staffs in respective sector and it is important to retain the staffs.
Poor outsourcing performance of manufacturing industry could be improved through relational-oriented exchanges and its antecedents. Researches that examine the link among relational-oriented exchanges and their antecedents; and outsourcing performances in the manufacturing industry is still in its early development stage. Owing to high competition and risks in a manufacturing environment, the present study aims at investigating the link between relational-oriented exchanges, the antecedent of relational-oriented exchanges and outsourcing performances. Data was collected from 224 electrical and electronic firms in Malaysia via a postal survey and analyzed by using statistical package for social science (SPSS) version 19. The result of the findings of the investigation revealed that dependence and communication behavior are significantly related to relational-oriented exchanges while trust is insignificant. And also, relational-oriented exchange is directly significant to outsourcing performances.