BACKGROUND Cervical disc arthroplasty is regarded as a promising treatment for myelopathy and radiculopathy as an alternative to cervical spine fusion. On the basis of 2-year clinical data for the PRESTIGE(®) Cervical Disc (Medtronic, Memphis, Tennessee), the Food and Drug Administration recommended conditional approval in September 2006 and final approval in July 2007; however, relatively litt...

I explore both why and how American institutions of all types are using enrollment as a strategy to position themselves for greater prestige. I am interviewing presidents and collecting documentary data at 40 institutions connected to the Atlanta market, capturing its full range and thus all institution types represented in American higher education. My initial research indicates that instituti...

Do employers prioritize university prestige above an applicant’s skills in the hiring process? To distinguish between effect of human capital process from name graduating university—while controlling for networking effects—2,400 fictitious applications were submitted to IT and accounting jobs US, UK, Australia. The resumes belonged citizens, both female male. For each sector labor market, two d...

Selection pressure from health risk is hypothesized to have shaped adaptations motivating individuals to attempt to become valued by other individuals by generously and recurrently providing beneficial goods and/or services to them because this strategy encouraged beneficiaries to provide costly health care to their benefactors when the latter were sick or injured. Additionally, adaptations are...

Successful collective action often depends on the presence of leaders, who bear greater responsibility than other group members for the logistics of coordination, monitoring of effort, and reward and punishment. Leaders may be expected to shoulder more risk, are vulnerable to retaliation from sanctioned group members, and suffer greater reputational damage from failed collective action. What th...

the purpose of present research is to consider the relationship between occupational prestige and avoidance variables and intermediate role of organizational indifference. this research is practical and its data were collected through descriptive method and is descriptive-correlative. statistical community is all ilam petrochemical's co employees. about 276 subjects were selected as sample...

The location-aware keyword query returns ranked objects that are near a query location and that have textual descriptions that match query keywords. This query occurs inherently in many types of mobile and traditional web services and applications, e.g., Yellow Pages and Maps services. Previous work considers the potential results of such a query as being independent when ranking them. However,...