“The criteria for attaining specialty status are rigorous, so the recognition of emergency nursing as a specialty is a significant achievement,” said ANA President Karen Daley, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN. “ANA’s role in this process is to protect patients by ensuring high quality in nursing practice and performance. This recognition tells the public that emergency nurses are dedicated to meeting high s...

Many biometric methods are closely connected with methods of pattern recognition and image analysis. The realization of a number of biometric technologies requires using the last achievements in this area. Some elements of technology based on some methods of image analysis are demonstrated by the example of iris person identification. From a position of organizing the educational process, labor...

cultural diversities can be considered as a treat as well as an opportunity which increasingly has effects on success of those organizations that are working in world scale.previous studies in this relation have been focused on intercultural or cultural values that do not provide for managers recognition of the needed competencies to success. in this research, through studying a new multidimens...

Delayed or failed achievement of lactogenesis II--the onset of copious milk volume--occurs as a result of various maternal and/or infant factors. Early recognition of these risk factors is critical for clinicians who interact with breastfeeding women so that intervention and achievement of full or partial breastfeeding can be preserved. This article describes the maternal and infant conditions ...

Developing persuasive and consistent models of educational performance has proved elusive. Existing modelling suggests no clear relationship between resources and student performance. This mirrors observed policy outcomes. A possible explanation is that the achievement process is a complicated interactive one such that simple linear additive formulations break down. This analysis presents a sty...

This panel discussion was a follow-up to the first edition of the ICFHR series, which was promoted as an international conference after 10 intensive and productive editions of the International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition initiated in 1990 in Montreal. It is essential, however, to recall that research on handwritten character recognition began some 40 years ago, and was exp...