the puppose of this research is identification of the impact of organizational culture factors and organizational structure factors on whistle-blowing. we used mixed method. at first stage, we used qualitative method; so, we used delphi technic and finally, by reaching consensus comments, we found 21 items with 0/441 coefficient of agreement. then, in the second stage, we use quantitative appro...

the validity of survey was approved by human resources experts in university of tehran and reliability has been calculated using cronbach's alpha coefficient in which the coefficient of each dependent and independent variable calculated more than 0.7. the statistical population of this research included as employees of university of tehran including staff and expert managers, this populati...

enterprise resource planning system is a software package with extensive application which integrates all organizational functions in a single system. to implement an erp project in an organization successfully, selecting an appropriate system considering effective factors is necessary. the purpose of this study is to identify effective factors in selecting erp. this study has used expert choic...

OBJECTIVE To assess the reliability of the Kids' Activity and Nutrition Questionnaire (KAN-Q) as part of a tiered process for developing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education tools. METHODS The KAN-Q was administered at 2 time points to assess internal consistency using standardized values of Cronbach α and test-retest reliability using the intraclass correlation coefficient for...

OBJECTIVES To assess the reliability and validity of the Brazilian version of the Attentional Function Index. METHOD Methodological study. The sample was made up of 138 students from an undergraduate nursing course. The psychometric properties were assessed through the convergent construct validity, using the Brazilian version of the Attentional Function Index and the Portuguese-language vers...

The theory of clinical depression presented here integrates etiological factors, changes in specific structural and cellular substrates, ensuing symptomatology, and treatment and prevention. According to this theory, important etiological factors, such as stress, can suppress the production of new neurons in the adult human brain, thereby precipitating or maintaining a depressive episode. Most ...

The active sites of Cyt. P450s contain a single heme b cofactor with a proximal cysteinate ligand. Figure 1 shows the active site of P. putida Cyt. P450cam as an example. The catalytic mechanism of Cyt. P450s has been studied in detail and is depicted in Figure 1. After one-electron reduction of the heme, O2 is bound first and subsequently reduced and protonated, generating an Fe–OOH complex (C...

The great blues singer Etta James’ signature song begins, “At laaasst, my love has come along . . . .” This may have been the feeling on May 4th when NASA announced the long-awaited results of Gravity Probe B [1], which are appearing now in Physical Review Letters[2]. Over 47 years and 750 million dollars in the making, Gravity Probe B was an orbiting physics experiment, designed to test two fu...

In this issue of Blood, Wang et al reveal that ligation of Ly6G on murine neutrophils inhibits neutrophil recruitment, providing the first evidence of a function for this molecule.