Despite the prevalence of both competitive forces and patterns of collaboration within academic communities, studies on research productivity generally treat universities as independent entities. By exploring the research productivity of all academic economists employed at 81 universities and 17 economic research institutes in Austria, Germany, and German-speaking Switzerland, this study determ...

The psychological representation of phonemes and syllables was examined with a special group of subjects who voluntarily and rapidly rearrange speech units (i.e., “talk backward”). Each subject clearly used a primarily soundor spelling-based representation to talk backward, and the present work focused on the sound-based skill. Backward speech differed from a total acoustic reversal: 12.subject...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to explore problems of clinical nurse performance appraisal system. METHODS This study employed a descriptive qualitative approach. The participants were purposively selected from clinical nurses working across all of the hospital units in a large metropolitan teaching hospital in Tehran, Iran in 2012. Data were collected using five focus group interviews,...

We present a model of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking in which the splitting between the top and bottom quark masses arises naturally. The W and Z masses are produced by a minimal technicolor sector, the top quark mass is given by the exchange of a weak-doublet technicolored scalar, and the other quark and lepton masses are induced by the exchange of a weak-doublet technicolor-singlet s...

Hee Jin Huh, M.D.*, Yun Mi Park, M.D.*, Seungok Lee, M.D., Chunhwa Ihm, M.D., Soyeon Seo, M.D., Sang Gon Lee, M.D., Joonseok Park, M.D., and Hae-il Park, M.D. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, Goyang; Siemens Healthineers, Seoul; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon; Department of Laboratory...

BACKGROUND We learned from a focus group that many patients find discharge to be one of the least satisfying elements of the hospital experience. Patients cited insufficient communication about the day and time of the impending discharge as a cause of dissatisfaction. OBJECTIVE In partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Improvement Action Network collaborative, we tested th...

AIM This paper is a report of a study to identify how nurse clinicians learn with and from each other in the workplace. BACKGROUND Clinicians' everyday practices and interactions with each other have recently been targeted as areas of research, because it is there that quality of care and patient safety are achieved. Orientation of new nurses and doctors into a specialty unit often results in...

Enhanced synthetic control of the morphology, crystal structure, and composition of nanostructures can drive advances in nanoscale devices. Axial and radial semiconductor nanowires are examples of nanostructures with one and two structural degrees of freedom, respectively, and their synthetically tuned and modulated properties have led to advances in nanotransistor, nanophotonic, and thermoelec...

No study to date has used laboratory critical values to evaluate variations in patient adverse events. We retrospectively analyzed a database of critical values to determine their distribution by hospital unit over time. The data were drawn from the Ohio State University Medical Center Information Warehouse (Columbus) for a 58-month period. Critical values were plotted over time on statistical ...