Many of the therapeutic interventions for intervertebral disc degeneration attempt to repopulate the nucleus pulposus (NP) tissue; however, NP cells are heterogeneous and not well characterized. To address this, we have investigated the morphology, extracellular gene and protein expression, and apoptosis changes in NP explants cultured in vitro with or without chondrogenic reagents for differen...

the purpose of this study is to design of education organizational culture model. this study is descriptive and practical which has been done by a quantitative method. this study was done with a research question to determine the components of organizational culture of the education department with inductive approach and method of multi grounded theory, using a problem-based interview and apply...

today, the real customer oriented must be the prevailing aspect of organizational culture and its requisite would be the real transition in the culture of organizations and the basic attention to customer as the most eminent value and the most important organizational commitment. therefore, the current research has been occomplished in order to explain all relative dimensions and elements of th...

introduction: the concept of organizational culture usually is considered as a moderating factor in using information technology (it). the present study aimed to review the association between harrison cultural typology and the acceptance of hospital information system (his) by its users in non-university hospitals of iran university of medical sciences (tehran, iran). methods: this research wa...

OO Big O Joan Krone Denison University Department of Math and CS Granville, Ohio 43023 740-587-6484 [email protected] W. F. Ogden The Ohio State University Neal Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43210 614-292-6007 [email protected] SUMMARY When traditional Big O analysis is rigorously applied to object oriented software, several deficiencies quickly manifest themselves. Because the traditional defin...

This paper proposes the integration of The Competing Values Framework (Quinn 1984; 1988) with Nonaka and Takeuchi’s (1995) knowledge creation and conversion model. Conceptual parallels between the two models are identified and the interaction effects among dimensions are analysed. The resulting Organizational Knowledge Management Model should further understanding of the social and organization...

Treemodels are valuable tools for predictivemodeling and datamining. Traditional tree-growingmethodologies such as CART are known to suffer from problems including greediness, instability, and bias in split rule selection. Alternative tree methods, including Bayesian CART (Chipman et al., 1998; Denison et al., 1998), random forests (Breiman, 2001a), bootstrap bumping (Tibshirani and Knight, 199...