Improves Vascular Dysfunction but Also Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Obese Children To the Editor: We write in response to the article “Effects of Diet and Exercise on Obesity-Related Vascular Dysfunction in Children” by Woo et al.1 We agree with the conclusion of Woo et al that diet and exercise should be regarded as an important strategy to reduce the risk of arterial dysfunction in obese childr...

Strategic alignment is sometimes used to provide the conceptual underpinnings of causal analyses of business performance, yet our understanding of the notion suffers, in large measure, from imprecise and unusable definitions that rely on vague geometric metaphors. This paper builds on and improves a conceptual framework for strategic alignment (Wang and Ghose, 2006). It applies the framework to...

Integration of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) within Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems improves dissemination, implementation, and effective enactment of CPGs in the organizational workflow, but requires that some inherent contrasts be faced. On the one hand, tailoring the EHR structure so as to fit a restricted set of CPGs induces a bias towards specific pathologies. On the other han...

Many organizational and environmental factors affect the information disclosure and the quality of its presentation; organizational culture is the most important factor among these factors. The organizational culture that is based on transparency will provide the information environment dynamism and it will also lead to the improvement of the quality of information disclosure by the business un...

the aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between leader – member exchange and organizational citizenship behavior, and considering the mediating role of psychological empowerment and organizational commitment. the sample consisted of 250 employees of marun oil and gas producing company who were selected by simple random sampling method. the instruments which used in this rese...

introduction: this study aimed to investigate the association between the emotional intelligence (ei) and organizational culture of university staff due to different dimensions of ei and its effects on different areas such as job progress, job satisfaction, job environment and organizational performance. methods: this was an analytical and cross-sectional study. it was done on 168 staff of isfa...

Animal health and welfare planning is considered an important tool for herd management; however, its effectiveness is less well known. The aim of this study was to conduct animal health and welfare planning on 34 Austrian dairy farms and to evaluate changes in health and welfare after 1 yr. After an initial assessment using the Welfare Quality protocol (Welfare Quality Consortium, Lelystad, the...