Background and Objectives: Balanced Scorecard is an increasingly popular tool for performance evaluation. Healthcare organizations have broadly adopted this method for implementing their strategic plans. There is, however, increasing concerns on barriers to balanced scorecard implementation. Built on the fundamental impacts of organizational culture on hospital performance, this study explored ...

Let J SJ=n . A family F of subsets A i c S , 1<-kgn , is called an r -design if every r -tuple {x 1 , . . ., xr } of S is contained in one and only one of the A 's . If r=2 we will just call these systems designs . (In the literature these 2 -designs are usually called partially balanced block designs .) Usually we will restrict ourselves to designs ; i .e ., to r=2 . There are two rivial desig...

This paper describes the design of an X-band balanced low noise amplifier (LNA) using an available HJFET device. The balanced LNA consists of a pair of electrically similar transistors whose input and output signals are divided or combined by 3 dB two-stage Wilkinson power dividers. The proposed balanced LNA is fabricated and measured. The measured results show that the noise figure is 1.30 dB ...

Group divisible designs are the most important class of partially balanced incomplete block (PBIB) designs. A list of new group divisible designs with r, k ⩽ 10 is provided.