with rapid changes in the business environment, organizations are increasingly looking at human resources as a unique asset that can provide sustained competitive advantage. as much as, people are viewed among the most important resources to firms, hr strategy would be central to achieve competitive advantages .firms should view hr strategy as an important tool for integrating competencies insi...

PURPOSE To evaluate factors affecting the use and delay ≥8 weeks of adjuvant chemotherapy and the impact of chemotherapy use and delay on survival. METHODS Between 2005 and 2012, consecutive patients with stage II and III colorectal cancer who were treated with major curative resection were enrolled. RESULTS Among 750 patients with stage II (n = 318) and III (n = 432) disease, 153 (20.4%) d...

 The Extended Littoral Battlespace (ELB) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) uses wireless Local Area Network (LAN) technology to provide U.S. Marines in the field with multimedia connectivity to shore-based and afloat command and control centers. Computer network voice communication services are being evaluated and demonstrated as part of the ELB project. A gateway is needed for ...

In this article we will present a detailed study of recursive extended least squares method (RELS) to identify without bias of the models (system + disturbance). The idea is simultaneously to identify the model of the system and the model of the disturbance to obtain asymptotically a white error of prediction, which guarantees an unbiased estimate of the parameters system. Then we choose an app...

BACKGROUND To examine the impact of chemotherapy delay on survival in patients with stage II or III colon cancer and the factors associated with the delay (≥8 weeks) of adjuvant chemotherapy. METHODS Patients undergoing curative resection and adjuvant chemotherapy in a national population-based cohort were included. RESULTS Among 5355 patients, 154 (2.9%) received chemotherapy more than 8 w...

Eight Holstein cows were used to determine the relationship among milk urea nitrogen (MUN), plasma urea nitrogen (PUN), and feeding time. We first established that MUN concentrations were similar in concentration among quarters by comparing milk samples from each quarter just before milking. In order to determine if collecting a sample of milk from a quarter influenced the MUN in samples taken ...

Plasma membrane glycoproteins from Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae at three stages of early development were digested with Pronase and endoglycosidase H and fractionated by gel filtration. This gave three classes of glycans (polysaccharides, endoglycosidase H-resistant glycopeptides, and endoglycosidase H-released oligosaccharides), which were tested for their ability to block agglutination of...

Ten juvenile alligators, mean body mass 793 g, hatched from artificially incubated eggs and raised under controlled conditions, were held out of water with their jaws held closed for 48 hr. An initial blood sample was taken and further samples collected at 1, 2, 4, 8, 24, and 48 hr. Epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine were measured in plasma aliquots of 1.5 ml using high pressure liquid c...

Subcutaneous administration of mepirizole (60 and 200 mg/kg) and cysteamine (100 and 300 mg/kg) to fasted rats consistently induced localized villous damage to the proximal duodenum after 6 to 8 hr. The severity of the damage in animals treated with the low doses remained unchanged at 12 hr. With the high doses, however, well-defined deep ulcers were evident by that time, the incidence being hi...