BACKGROUND Despite over a decade of research and technological advances, sublingual microcirculatory monitoring has not yet reached clinical utility. Offline analysis is time consuming and occurs away from the patient. A system to assess the microcirculation at the point of care is desirable. We present a novel 5-point grading system (the point of care microcirculation (POEM) scoring system) th...

This paper outlines a framework for the study of innovation that treats discoveries as additions to evolving networks. As inventions enter they expand or limit the reach of the ideas they build on by influencing how successive discoveries use those ideas. The approach is grounded in novel measures of the extent to which an innovation amplifies or disrupts the status quo. Those measures index th...

The concept of open innovation is currently popular in the management and policy literature on technology and innovation. However, despite the large volume of empirical work, many of the prescriptions being proposed are fairly general, rather than specific to particular contexts and contingencies. The proponents of open innovation tend to offer universal, and often universally positive, prescri...

"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" shows many features associated with seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry in general, and with Donne's work in particular. Donne's contemporary, the English writer Izaak Walton, tells us the poem dates from 1611, when Donne, about to travel to France and Germany, wrote for his wife this valediction, or farewell speech. Like most poetry of Donne's time, it ...

ahmad waeli is one of the iraqi and shiite contemporary poets in the field of religious poem.in this type of poem, he has been able to set a strong link between the virtues of  ahl-e-beit (peace be upon them) and  political, social and cultural conditions prevailing his era. his religion poem is accompanied with wisdom and temperance. further, his religious poem shows his strong emotion, belief...

the two symbols of abel and cain are of the important elements in badr shākir al-sayyāb’s poetry; so their traces could be explicitly perceived in his various poems. to be considered that the structure of each poem is formed by its components, cain and abel have prominent functions in the structure of poems these two poetical devices have been used in. on the one hand, the functions of these tw...

abstract because of today's dynamic business environment and three emerging major trends of intense international competition, discrete markets, and changing technology, innovation is drawing increasing attention as a solution. these trends have aroused business scholars’ interest in running in-depth investigations on the concept of social capital as a critical factor in improving organizationa...