General medical practices’ in Australia are vulnerable to information security threats and insecure practices. It is becoming well accepted in the healthcare environment that information security is both a technical and a human endeavour, and that the human behaviours, particularly around integration with healthcare workflow, are key barriers to good information security practice. This paper de...

this study attempts to examine the operational efficiency of thirty-two microfinance institutions in india. operational efficiency in microfinance institutions refers to how well microfinance institutions allocate the input resources. since the study is an exploratory nature, therefore, the data are collected from mix market on annual basis. it covers the seven-year period ranging from 2005-06 ...

This study seeks to identify the elements of operational capability and obtain a detailed picture of the sequential relationships among operational capabilities and business performance in the hospitality industry. In addition, it attempts to prove that the capability to offer an enhanced customer experience constitutes a core competitive advantage in service firms. A phone survey was conducted...

A population of the Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans, was studied at Green Island, Kure Atoll, in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands from September 1963 through August 1965. The island covers 214 acres, of which 144 are vegetated, and all vegetated areas are utilized by the rat. Other vertebrates on the island and its shores include 14 species of breeding seabirds and the Hawaiian monk seal. Usual...

The mortality rate in cardiac surgery patients with heritable generalized connective tissue disorders, such as Marfan s syndrome and osteogenesis imperfecta, is high due to tissue friability. We describe a successful open heart surgery for repair of aortic regurgitation in a woman with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). Although tissue friability caused no problems during surgery in this case, it sh...

Alignment between business and IT functions is a critical yet unsolved problem of many organizations. Despite considerable amount of research devoted to address this issue, the quest for alignment remains challenging, particularly in light of the rapid and widespread digitization of the business world. This paper argues that a research-practice gap exists in the alignment field, and that academ...

With the changes in market environments and development of digital technology, enterprises urgently need to develop capability adapt profound strategy business processes. Some previous research regarded a marketing as transformation capability, but other explained importance competence enterprises, from perspective resource allocation. However, they could not explain phenomenon on usage advance...