background and objectives: medical errors and adverse events have recently turned into one of the predominant concerns of health-policy makers and health services providers. promoting safety culture is fundamental to sustainable safety improvement in healthcare settings. the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of training on nurses’ attitudes towards safety culture.   methods: a cro...

background: the human leukocyte antigen (hla) matching between organ donor and recipient is an acceptable strategy in clinical transplantation since 1964. however, in bone marrow transplantation, finding matched donors is often problematic. thus new method for down regulation of hla can be an alternative strategy to solve this problem. objective: to examine the effect of serum starvation on hla...

in this paper two different rateless transmissionschemes are developed. in the proposed scheme, relay node candecode and forward the message to the destination if they areable to decode it, or amplify and forward the message to thedestination. based on the analysis and simulation resultsprovided in this paper, the proposed method has bettertransmission time than the scheme which only the relay ...

Organizational culture has a significant influence on the success of organizations. Culture determines the kinds of responses that the organization makes to required changes and will make to new problems. It can help predict how well the organization will deal with change. One of these changes is a knowledge management project. Knowledge is viewed as a driver in the definition and development o...

PowerPoint has come to dominate organizational life in general and strategy making in particular. The technology is lauded by its proponents as a powerful tool for communication and excoriated by its critics as dangerously simplifying. This study takes a deeper look into how PowerPoint is mobilized in strategy making through an ethnographic study inside one organization. It treats PowerPoint as...

this study investigated how english as foreign language (efl) learners with different learning styles (field dependent and field independent) boost up their reading comprehension abilities as they develop their metacognitive skills. to conduct this research, 60 participants were randomly invited to sit pet (preliminary english test) to ensure homogeneity of the participants in terms of language...