background and objectives: effective communication between managers and staff is a prerequisite to organization success. cultural competence is key to effective communication. the aim of this study was to survey cultural competence in managers of selected hospitals.   methods: twenty teaching hospital managers and four private hospital managers of senior level participated in the study. data we...

Bacillus rubiinfantis sp. nov. strain mt2(T) is the type strain of B. rubiinfantis sp. nov., isolated from the fecal flora of a child with kwashiorkor in Niger. It is Gram-positive facultative anaerobic rod belonging to the Bacillaceae family. We describe the features of this organism alongside the complete genome sequence and annotation. The 4 311 083 bp long genome (one chromosome but no plas...

Purpose: Today, without having competent and efficient human resources, organizations will not be able to create transformation, development and excellence, achieve a strategic model and achieve the set goals. The way to achieve this is to develop the management and leadership of the organization and create an efficient structure for the human resources organization. Therefore, the main purpose...

We define the entropy function S(p) = lim.-~zn -zln N(n ,p), where N(n ,p) is the number of different partial order relations definable over a set of n distinct objects, such that of the possible n ( n I )/2 pairs of objects, a fraction p are comparable. Using rigorous upper and lower bounds for S(p), we show that there exist real numbers p1 and p2; .083 < p1 ~ 1/4 and 3/8 ~ p2 < 48/49; such th...

2 Correspondence to Dr YZ ZHU. Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260. Phn +65-874-3676. Fax +65-773-0579. E-mail [email protected] Received 2002-09-12 Accepted 2002-10-14  200 2, Act a Pharmacolog ica Si nica ISSN 16 71-4 083 Shang hai Insti tute of Materia Medica Chinese Academy of Sci ences ht tp:/ /www.C...

BACKGROUND Recent studies suggest that high-dose MgSO4 therapy is safe and reduces the incidence of DIND and subsequent poor outcome after SAH. We intended to assess the safety and efficacy of high-dose MgSO4 therapy after SAH as means to prevent DIND and to evaluate the impact on clinical outcome. METHODS This was a prospective, randomized, single-blind, placebo-controlled study. The MgSO4 i...