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The cedi’s sustained depreciation against the US dollar appears to be slowing down significantly over the past three working days
No full textMediating Effect of Human Capital on the Correlates of Corporate Governance
No full textIt is essential to understand the variables that affect asset quality because of their implications on the risk to financial institutions and for financial supervision and financial stability. There exist empirical studies establishing significant relationships between corporate governance and asset quality, and credit administration and asset quality. What was missing that this study investigated based on Ghanaian financial institutions was the mediating role of human capital. Based on a correlational research design and randomly selecting financial institutions and their employees as respondents. The study resulted that human capital fully and significantly mediates the relationships between corporate governance and asset quality, and credit administration and asset quality. Therefore, human capital elements of the knowledge, skills, and experience of the board members and employees are fully critical in the attainment of good asset quality. The study recommends that financial institutions must fully include the level of the human capital of their employees and board members when evaluating the factors that must exist to ensure that they have good asset quality
A Qualitative Analysis of Tongue-Tie Definition by First and Second Year Graduate Students
No full textThis poster presentation results from a continuation of qualitative research designed to examine speech-language pathology (SLP) graduate students\u27 knowledge about tongue-tie. Two hundred graduate students who participated in an online survey were asked to define tongue-tie. Ninety-three total responses were gathered and analyzed using Nvivo 14. Our analysis revealed that the participating graduate students were more likely to define tongue-tie using mobility, length, or anatomic position over function. The most commonly used description for tongue-tie in our results was mobility. Our study highlights a potential gap in the clinical education of SLP graduate students regarding lingual frenulum and its effect on oral functions
