ORK-LOAD CONTROL FACTORS in clinical laboratories are not available in the literature. Business engineering and manpower-study methods are not readily applicable to laboratory work in which varied human elements exist. The remarkable variety of methods, choice of technics, personal viewpoints, lack of contacts, and few chances for direct comparison with the work of others in the field also make...

A contemporary examination of the response of British and United States military organizations to the increased manpower wastage occasioned by the diseases and weaponry of war during the period 1854 to 1914 and the resulting changes in how these respective medical services were organized and employed.

Self-employment and Intergenerational Transfers: Liquidity Constraints or Family Environment? Anne Laferrère and Peter McEntee We examine the determinants of entrepreneurship using data on intergenerational transfers of wealth, education and what we call informal human capital. We are interested in the respective importance of the level of assets which relax liquidity constraints and of an entr...

This study examined the impact of Human Resource (HR) practices (selection, training, compensation, and appraisal) and participation on the financial performance of U.S. petrochemical refineries. Survey results from HR and Operations respondents indicated that appraisal and training were significantly related to workforce skills and that training and compensation were marginally related to work...

successful organizations in the 21st century, have understood the importance of human resources as an important resource to achieve sustainable competitive advantage and stability in international markets. accordingly, the present article, after knowing the individual capabilities of human resources, followed by analysis of human resources and their individual capabilities's role to create...

OBJECTIVE Relaxin-2 (RLN2) increases cell migration, invasiveness and proliferation in vitro of osteosarcoma cells, but the molecular mechanisms of this action are still unknown. In the present study, we identified S100A4 /MMP-9 signaling as a major mediator of the actions of RLN2 in osteosarcoma cells in vitro. MATERIALS AND METHODS We have established stable transfectants of osteosarcoma MG...

Ribonucleotide reductase is the enzyme responsible for the reduction of ribonucleotides to their corresponding deoxyribonucleotides for DNA synthesis. Ribonucleotide reductase is a multisubunit complex containing two polypeptides, R1 and R2. In addition to catalytic and allosteric regulatory functions, the R1 subunit appears to act as a novel tumor suppressor. Previous studies demonstrated that...

importance of human resources and its unique role as a strategic resource, designer and systems executive and organizational systems has found higher position than in the past as far as the advanced enterprise thinking considers human being as the most important resource and asset for an organization. today, new approaches to human resource management emphasizes that should human resource with ...