either for a short period or for a length of time, such as military service, his practice will be properly cared for and ethically returned to him when he comes back. Someone said “An institution is but the lengthening shadow of one man.” This is usually very true in dental groups at the start, but as ihe group grows the shadows of many men merge to strengthen that institution. Las,t, and to me...

John R, Reynolds, the President and CEO of the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), a 142 bed orthopedic specialty hospital in Manhattan, was facing a curious dilemma regarding both the future direction of his institution and the evolving nature of his role as Chief Executive of the Corporation. HSS had just completed, under Reynolds’ direction, a major consultative project with the British Nati...

Though I was in the service of the institution f?r only forty years, I have known it all my life. % father began his work there in 1864, and my earliest recollection is going there to an entertainment. I am to try and tell you of the changes in trends and attitudes which I have noticed during my forty years. They are the memories of a " has been ". After qualifying as a medical man, I had five ...

Background. Skin diseases among pediatric patients differ from those in adults. Epidemiological studies are scarce, and those performed in Mexican population date back thirty years. It is likely that these diseases might have changed their frequency. Material and Methods. Retrospective study in first-time patients referred to a pediatric dermatology service between January 1994 and December 200...

Genomics research presents technical, computational, and analytical challenges that are well recognized. Less recognized are the complex sociological, psychological, cultural, and political challenges that arise when genomics research takes place within a large, decentralized academic institution. In this paper, we describe a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)—MaPSeq—that was conceptualized an...

BACKGROUND: Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is one of the great mimickers of medicine, and often masquerades as malignancy. As a result, patients may be referred to oncologists and surgeons for further evaluation and management, delaying the institution of appropriate anti-tuberculous drug therapy. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 21 year old man with tuberculous osteomyelitis, who was r...

The article deals with solution of some problems connected to development of feedback services while surveying students on educational environment at a higher education institution. Our research was carried out by the Department of Informatics, Software Engineering and Economic Cybernetics of Kherson State University. During 6 years (2009-2015) in the mentioned above Department, students’ surve...

We propose a principled risk-based framework that enables organizations or complex systems to jointly perform financial planning and human-resource management functions in an environment characterized by uncertainty in demand and supply and by other exogenous factors. This framework consists of a set of risk-based capacity planning models and methods that, first, allow for a rigorous quantifica...

To gain competitive advantage in a fast changing environment, the higher education institution (HEI) must continuously adjust the strategies to that environment. One important strategy is how to determine appropriate practical actions based on what students really need and want. Despite the abundance of research on service quality management, there is no universal consensus on how best to deter...