introduction: in today’s world, organizations are attempting to achieve advantages and competitive results. understanding mutual interactions between organizations and using modern management techniques as well as modern management tools might have an influential effect on obtaining optimal organizational results. nowadays, one of the competitive advantages is applying the excellence models. th...

The SIMU programme aims at building cooperation across Europe in the field of computationl physics and chemistry of condensed matter, with particular emphasis on the development of novel computational techniques to perform multiscale molecular simulations. Preface Bridging the gap in time and spatial scales between what can be done computationally, and what is relevant in experiment or biology ...

KEY POINTS Although there are many patient organisations in Europe, this is not the case in all countries across the globe.Access to care is one of the main global issues highlighted by the European Lung Foundation International Patient Advisory Committee.The European Respiratory Society/European Lung Foundation Healthy Lungs for Life campaign can be used locally or globally to raise awareness ...

Several previous studies have suggested that basic decoding skills may develop less effectively in English than in some other European orthographies. The origins of this effect in the early (foundation) phase of reading acquisition are investigated through assessments of letter knowledge, familiar word reading, and simple nonword reading in English and 12 other orthographies. The results confir...

Maintaining and improving high quality supply in Europe is fundamental to keeping Europe's leading position as a destination in world tourism, to meeting the challenges of competitors and to increasing its market share. The paper presents the results of eight best practice case studies of di!erent destinations in four European countries, which were part of a study, assigned by the European Comm...