this research is to examine the relationship between corporate organizational culture and financial performance in iranian ict ministry-affiliated corporations. denison's questionnaire was used to measure organizational culture while four indicators namely return on assets, return on sales, return on owner's equity ratio and operating expenses/operating income ratio were employed in a...

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A Bayesian approach is presented for spatially adaptive nonparametric regression where the regression function is modelled as a mixture of splines. Each component spline in the mixture has associated with it a smoothing parameter which is defined over a local region of the covariate space. These local regions overlap such that individual data points may lie simultaneously in multiple regions. C...

BACKGROUND The aim of this article is to develop the Spanish adaptation of the internal functioning of Work Teams Scale (QFI-22). METHODS The scale was adapted from the French version, and was applied to a sample of 1,055 employees working for firms operating in Spain. The article analyses the internal structure (exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis) and internal consistency, and prov...

From the end of the year 1947 to the early summer of 1948, a diarrheal disease of infectious nature prevailed in Japan. The disease appeared fairly abruptly and when it was recognized as a serious public health problem, it had already been spread almost all over Japan. It stimulated research workers as well as public health officers as a hitherto unknown disease entity. Human volunteer experime...