focus of the strategic human resource management is presenting a model of strategies in the hr field to enable the organization achieve its strategic objectives. the main purpose of this study is providing a systematic and fairly standard framework for developing hr strategies. in order to show the applicability of the proposed framework, hr strategies in an oil industry company were developed....

Behavioral studies have shown that observers with absolute pitch tend to perform very proficiently in a range of tone identification tasks. However, most studies focus only on response accuracy, leaving the question whether the strategies used by these observers are absolute (i.e., not based on a comparison with an internal or external reference point different from the judged note) or relative...

Building a new class of H.264 devices without external DRAM Power is an increasingly important consideration for the majority of system designers. This is particularly true in the case of small handheld consumer devices such as cameras, camcorders and mobile phones. In such devices, video compression technology is used that relies on power hungry DRAMs to store the reference frames during the e...

In genome-wide association studies, only a subset of all genomic variants are typed by current, high-throughput, SNP-genotyping platforms. However, many of the untyped variants can be well predicted from typed variants, with linkage disequilibrium (LD) information among typed and untyped variants available from an external reference panel such as HapMap. Incorporation of such external informati...

The frequent use of non-representative, time-consuming and low hit rate sampling methods in the study of minority cultures is of concern. Given the increasing cultural diversity of the Canadian population and the growing Chinese population, a sampling method using phonological rules to distinguish Chinese surnames from non-Chinese ones was developed. Chinese surnames, transcribed according to t...

Accurate localization of joint centers is essential in movement analysis. However, joint centers cannot be directly palpated and alternative methods must be used. To assess the relative merits of these methods, a medical image based reference should be used. The EOS(®) system, a new low dose bi-planar X-rays imaging technique may be considered. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy...

INTRODUCTION Stiffness of forearm rotation secondary to transfixion pin sites is a frequent complication of external fixation. Conventional surgical atlases do not consider the effect of rotation on skin displacement and thus do not provide a comprehensive answer. We asked: (1) in what locations in the forearm is soft tissue displacement relative to the ulna and radius least during rotation; (2...

A model reference adaptive control method is proposed for uncertain nonlinear characteristics of spacecraft attitude control system. This method combines fuzzy control methodology and nonlinear feedback linearization methodology, which made the closed-loop system stable and the state of fuzzy system track the state of reference model according to the parallel distributed compensation theory and...

Serial (baseline and 9-month follow-up) intravascular ultrasound analysis was performed at 5-mm reference segments immediately proximal and distal to the sirolimus-eluting stent (SES) in 33 lesions. Proximal and distal reference segments were divided into 1-mm subsegments. Between postintervention and follow-up intravascular ultrasound studies, there were significant decreases in the lumen and ...

Introduction In-vivo H spectroscopy is a valuable tool for clinical diagnostics of various diseases and provides deeper insight into basic metabolic and physiological processes in the brain. It has been recently demonstrated that the combination of 2D spectroscopy sequences like JPRESS [5] and prior knowledge based fitting (ProFit) [6] can improve the reliable and independent detection and quan...