Within a diverse and expanding system of higher education (HE), such as in the UK, discourse on teaching and student learning highlights tensions between different notions of excellence. For example, excellence as a positional good for students, an aspirational target for continuous quality enhancement, a form of reputational advantage for HE institutions or a means of achieving governmental ec...

abstract in the third millennium, knowledge management was introduced as a strategic need for educational institutions and higher education systeme. in fact, relying on human capital, ideas and information, will ensure long term excellence of the organizations and communities. nowadays, it has been possible to enhance higher education and research capabilities and skills through wise utilizati...

The Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) represents a new model of cardiovascular research, in which emphasis is placed on close collaboration between basic and clinical researchers, both nationally and internationally, and on creating a network of relations with clinical institutions that will enable acquired knowledge to be efficiently transformed into real he...

BACKGROUND The provision of excellent patient care is a goal shared by all doctors. The role of social media (SM) in helping medical students and doctors achieve clinical excellence is unknown. Social media may help facilitate the achievement of clinical excellence PURPOSE This report aimed to identify examples of how SM may be used to help promote the achievement of clinical excellence in me...

Background: Talent management has been on the agenda of many health care organizations because belief in its importance achieving organizational excellence and make their personnel more affiliated to achieve objectives. Aim: The study aims evaluate effect educational program about talent for nursing managers job affiliation and excellence. Research Design: A quasi experimental research de...

Objective –This study intends to examine the relationship between investment efficiency and financial information excellence. The study is also examining the moderating impact of sustainability on the relation between excellence in financial information and investment productivity. Methodology –The cumulative measurements are 668 firm-years and are made up of 257 subsamples of underinvestment a...

Knowledge and knowledge driven learning determines the organizational ability to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. To excel in business, organizations need to develop processes that facilitate streamline information flow resulting in enhanced learning. This paper investigates the learning capabilities demonstrated by Indian organizations and for the differences between business excelle...

OBJECTIVE To better understand and characterize clinical excellence in academia by exploring the perspectives of clinically excellent faculty in the top American departments of medicine. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS Between March 1 and May 31, 2007, 2 investigators conducted in-depth semistructured interviews with 24 clinically excellent Department of Medicine physicians at 8 academic institution...

OBJECTIVE The provision of excellent patient care is a goal that physicians would like to achieve in caring for all patients, all of the time. Until recently, clinical excellence had not been defined, and the extent to which this recently published definition applies to the care of patients with psychiatric illness is not known. This article sets out to consider how the paradigm for clinical ex...

In this paper, a study of the statistical analysis of total ozone concentration as released by satellite EPTOMS was used to show that annual coefficient of relative variability (ACRV) of ozone in West Africa over a period of 48 months increased gradually from 3.5% at latitudinal zone 0-5N to 6.1% at zone 2025N. A strong positive correlation of 0.99 was observed between the ACRV of ozone and ave...