Background Core outcome sets (COS) seek to overcome heterogeneity in outcome reporting by generating outcomes to be measured and reported as a minimum in all trials of specific conditions. Patients’ views are integral to this but less is understood about selecting which healthcare professionals to be involved. We examined whether differences in the health professionals surveyed influenced outco...

There is an uptake of organizations’ involvement in collaborative organizational structures (COS). Consistent with the resource-centric views of the firm, we suggest that the COS members need to contribute their managed IT competencies to their COS, whose synergies would create COS IT competencies. We suggest three key IT competencies for COS: proactive top management decision synergy, collabor...

The future resilience of coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) is now of critical concern due to the detection of a 33% decline in California coastal fog over the 20th century. However, ecosystem-scale measurements of photosynthesis and stomatal conductance are challenging in coast redwood forests, making it difficult to anticipate the impacts of future changes in fog. To address this methodolo...

Purpose This article examines the direct influence of employee’s perceived organisational support (POS) on student loyalty (LOY), exploring indirect roles total quality management (TQM) and information communication technology adoption (ADT) moderating government (GOS) co-worker (COS). Design/methodology/approach The constructs a research model along with postulations by combining both empirica...

Faculty: Y.H. Chen, Associate Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering (COE) R.F. Fox, Regents’ Professor, Chair of School of Physics (COS) R. Grigoriev, Assistant Professor, School of Physics (COS) E.M. Harrell, Professor, School of Mathematics(COS) C.A. Klausmeier, Assistant Professor, School of Biology (COS) P.J. Mucha, Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics (COS) G.P. Neitzel, Profes...

SET in the azure Aegean sea is the island of Cos. Not far to the east is a promontory on which was once the city of Cnidos. Both were inhabited by Greeks, yet even as in our own country Greek did not always agree with Greek, and differing solutions to the same problem often led to considerable variation in opinion. Yet here in these two small land areas took origin some of the very basic concep...

This document includes some mathematical notions I will assume. Most of these are taught in a discrete math class, and in any case are not complicated and easy to pick up. You can read it at your own pace — it will take a few weeks until we’ll get to use all of this stuff. You do not have to do the exercises, and in any case don’t need to submit them. If you feel you’d like more clarifications ...

A new system was developed for measuring sulfur isotopes δ33S and δ34S from atmospheric carbonyl sulfide (COS or OCS) on small air samples of several liters, using a pre-concentration gas chromatography – isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC-IRMS) method. Measurements COS provide tool quantifying the budget, which will help towards better understandin...

deal effectively with the increased density of the pork industry in some areas and the increased public concerns regarding nutrient excretion and odour emissions. Successful management of nitrogen and phosphorus is key for sustainable pork production to address these public concerns. For example, nitrogen excretion in the form of ammonia is a concern because of its impact on the work environmen...