The effect of 24 hours of sustained wakefulness on the speech of healthy adults is poorly documented. Therefore, speech samples were systematically acquired (e.g., every four hours) from 18 healthy adults over 24 hours. Stimuli included automated and extemporaneous tasks, sustained vowel and a read passage. Measures of timing and frequency were derived acoustically using Praat and significant c...

The paper discusses the role of extemporaneous action and bricolage in designing and implementing information systems in organizations. We report a longitudinal field study of design and implementation of a Web-based groupware application in a multinational corporation. We adopt a sensemaking perspective to analyze the dynamics of this process and show that improvisational action and bricolage ...

DANIELA LUCIA MUNTEAN1, GABRIEL HANCU2*, HAJNAL KELEMEN2, AURA RUSU2, ADRIANA CIURBA3 1 University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Tîrgu Mures, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Analytical Chemistry and Medicine Analysis, Gh. Marinescu 38, 540139, Tîrgu Mures, Romania 2 University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Tîrgu Mures, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Gh. Marinesc...

Background: The PHAR-QA, "Quality Assurance in European Pharmacy Education and Training", project has produced the European Pharmacy Competence Framework (EPCF). The aim of this study was to evaluate the existing pharmacy programme at the University of Tartu, using the EPCF. Methods: A qualitative assessment of the pharmacy programme by a convenience sample (n = 14) representing different pharm...

1Department of Pharmacognosy, Sri K.V.College of Pharmacy, Chickballapur, Karnataka, India; 2Department of Pharmacognosy, PES College of Pharmacy, Bangalore, Karnataka India; 3Department of Pharmacognosy, Karavali College of Pharmacy, Mangalore, Karnataka India; 4Department of Pharmacology, Sri K.V.College of Pharmacy, Chickballapur, Karnataka-562101, India; 5Department of Pharmaceutical Chemis...

College of Pharmacy, The University of Michigan, 428 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1065; College of Pharmacy, Northeastern Ohio Universities, 4209 State Road 44, PO Box 95, Rootstown, OH 44272-0095; College of Pharmacy, The University of Georgia, Pharmacy Building, Green Street, Athens, GA 30602-2351; University of Louisiana at Monroe College of Pharmacy, 1800 Bienville Drive, Monroe, LA 7...

Issues facing pharmacy leaders in 2015 include practice model growth and the role of pharmacy students, clinical privileging of health-system pharmacists and provider status, medication error prevention, and specialty pharmacy services. The goal of this article is to provide practical approaches to 4 issues facing pharmacy leaders in 2015 to help them focus their department's goals. This articl...

national conference on evidence-based traditional medicine and pharmacy

OBJECTIVES To describe the five Phase I Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) demonstration projects and discuss lessons learned across the projects. DESIGN Descriptive nonexperimental study. SETTING United States from July 2008 to November 2009. PARTICIPANTS Community pharmacies from five states. INTERVENTION Pharmacies viewed their performance scores on a reporting website and provided feed...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the link between the rank at the national pharmacy residency examination and the choice of pharmacy specialty for hospital residency-admitted French pharmacy students. METHODS Examination ranks as well as the pharmacy residency specialty to which residency candidates are finally admitted were collected for all students (n=1948) having successfully passed the national Fren...