The author presents reflections from medical anthropology on the institutional culture of medicine and medical education, which sees itself as a "culture of no culture" and which systematically tends to foster static and essentialist conceptions of "culture" as applied to patients. Even though requirements designed to address cultural competence are increasingly incorporated into medical school...

Background: In embryological culture dishes, there is a temperature decline when they are removed outside incubators. This study aimed at investigating the effects of this temperature decline within a certain time frame, the type of culture dish with or without the use of laminar air flow and whether it is possible to achieve a sufficient thermal control with the use of a heating stage. Materia...

an experiment was conducted at zahak research station in zabol in 1996-97 to determine the best method of planting and plant density for mixed culture of cucumber and eggplant. in this experiment, yields of two crops were compared in individual and mixed cultures. in both systems the distances between two plant were 25 and 50 cm, and in the mixed culture eggplants were planted in the opposite o...

Purpose This paper explores how adaptive organizations, companies capable of continuously adapting their organizational model, dynamically solve the universal problems organizing. Design/methodology/approach The authors applied grounded theory to data acquired from six interpretative case studies, collected in two rounds interviews (15 total), then completing and validating study’s evidence thr...

The European Commission has highlighted the development of entrepreneurship competence in lifelong learning skills. In this way, present study aims to contribute towards fostering intrapreneurial mindset healthcare settings. focus attention is on relationship between organizational structures and processes (work-related content content, specifically psychosocial risk factors), as well individua...

Introduction: This study, sought to assess the effects of age, education, years operation and gender on antecedents corporate entrepreneurship (CE), self-efficacy desirability, competencies employees.
 Methods: is a quantitative cross-sectional study among 400 employees Small Medium-Sized Enterprises in Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. Pretested questionnaires were used for data collection. In...

Recent scholarship has established several ways in which external hiring—versus filling a role with comparable internal candidate—is detrimental to firms. Yet, organizational learning theory suggests that hires benefit firms: by importing knowledge is unavailable or obscured insiders and applying it toward experimentation risky recombination. Accordingly consistent studies of hiring innovation,...