Communication often drops dramatically between group members who move a significant distance from their work group despite the provision of mediated communication support. Although the poor quality of the communication exchange via mediated communication is certainly responsible for a significant portion of this drop, lowered suggestion, availability and comfortableness of the communication con...

With the increasing need to evaluate health spending comes a need for frameworks that capture the multiple goals of hospitals. There is a need to rethink the application of theoretical approaches to investigating IS in light of the objectives of medical practitioners using practical technologies. The Balanced Score Card (BSC) has been successfully applied to hospital environments, but not to Pi...

since the 1970s, services marketing has grown into a major sub discipline of marketing. it is constantly claimed – but is refuted in the article – that services are now the dominant economic activity in developed countries and keeps growing while the two traditional goods sectors, manufacturing and agriculture, are declining. in today's competitive world, having expertise, knowledge and ma...

R. S. Weinstein A. M. López G. P. Barker E. A. Krupinski M. R. Descour K. M. Scott L. C. Richter S. J. Beinar M. J. Holcomb P. H. Bartels R. A. McNeely A. K. Bhattacharyya Teleradiology, telepathology, and teleoncology are important applications of telemedicine. Recent advances in these fields include a preponderance of radiology PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) users, the imp...

Which thinkers are we guided by? A novel “Thought Leader Map” shows the select group of people with real influence who are setting the trends in the market for ideas. The influencers in philosophy, sociology, economics, and the “hard sciences” have been identified by a Delphi process, asking 50 thought leaders to name their peers. The importance of the influencers is calculated by constructing ...

A randomized control trial comparing two social communication treatments for children with autism spectrum disorder examined the effect of treatment on object interest. Thirty-two children, 18-60 months, were randomly assigned to the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) or Responsive Education and Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching (RPMT) condition. Assessment of object interest was conducte...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether manual sign or the Picture Exchange Communication System (P.E.C.S.) (Frost and Bondy, 1994) would be more effective in teaching mand skills to adults with mental retardation in the severe and profound range. Four participants were taught to mand for four reinforcing items using both communication modalities, in an alternating treatments design....