OBJECTIVE To determine if pattern recognition techniques applied to high-resolution manometry (HRM) spatiotemporal plots of the pharyngeal swallow can identify features of disordered swallowing reported on the Modified Barium Swallow Impairment Profile (MBSImP). STUDY DESIGN Case series evaluating new method of data analysis. SETTING University hospital. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Simultaneous ...

We adopted Bowen and Ostroff’s (2004) HRM system strength concept so as to test it within the context of a management-by-objectives (MBO) system, which was utilized by six independent firms owned by a large, diversified family business group in Turkey. For this purpose we surveyed the middle managers to measure 10 context-specific metafeatures of the MBO system. By using aggregated scores at th...

R esearchers have argued that human resources may be seen as a source of sustained competitive advantage for organizations (Barney, 1991, 1995; Becker & Gerhart, 1996). The underlying assumption is that human resources are unique to the extent that competitors cannot imitate them. This research has led to the identification of a number of human resource management practices that contribute to c...

BACKGROUND The staphylococcal protein A (spa) locus of Staphylococcus aureus contains a complex repeat structure and is commonly used for single-locus sequence-based genotyping. The real-time PCR platform supports genotyping methods that are single step and closed tube and potentially can be carried out simultaneously with diagnosis. We describe here a method for genotyping S. aureus using high...

background: myelodysplastic syndromes (mdss) include a diverse group of clonal bone marrow disorders characterized by ineffective hematopoiesis and pancytopenia.it was found that down regulation of apaf1, a putative tumor suppressor gene (tsg),leads to resistance to chemotherapy and disease development in some cancers. in this study, we investigated the relation of apaf1 methylation status with...