introduction: surgical site infection is one of the most common nosocomial infections and today it is believed that this infection caused by bacterias which penetrate into the wound during operation. surgery team members who have much contact with surgical site tissues, can control this infection by observing infection control principles. this study was done in order to determine performance ra...

The role of effective teamwork in accomplishing complex tasks is accepted in many domains. Similarly, there is good evidence that the outcome in trauma care depends on effective trauma team performance. Teamwork during trauma care can be deficient in a number of ways (Table 1), and multiple deficiencies may interact to impair team success and patient outcomes. This chapter focuses on understand...

Previous research suggests that an eventual information technology (IT) success depend on both its initial adoption (acceptance) and subsequent continued usage (continuance). Expectancy disconfirmation theory (EDT) has been successfully used to predict users intention to continue using information technologies. This study proposed a decomposed EDT model to examine cognitive beliefs and affect t...

To further investigate the relationship between non-native tone perception and production, the present study trained Mandarin speakers to learn Cantonese lexical tones with a speech shadowing paradigm. After two weeks’ training, both Mandarin speakers’ Cantonese tone perception and their production had improved significantly. The overall performances in Cantonese tone perception and production ...

This study empirically examines the relationship between trust, leadership, and team performance with two objectives. The first objective is to empirically examine an assumption found in several literatures – that a team’s trust in their leader has a significant effect on the team’s performance. The second objective is to explore a more complex and dynamic relationship between trust and team pe...

Using hand-collected and web-scraped data on 7208 matches 3266 players from the highest division of German male football, this paper examines how birthplace diversity affects team performance. The results two instrumental variable analyses suggest that has a hump-shaped effect To explain our result, we argue nationally diverse teams have wider range skills face greater communication barriers.