Many technologies used by the LDCs are developed in the OECD economies and are designed to make optimal use of the skills of these richer countries' workforces. Differences in the supply of skills create a mismatch between the requirements of these technologies and the skills of LDC workers, and lead to low productivity in the LDCs. Even when all countries have equal access to new technologies,...

The performance of a mobile working machine is subject to operating conditions, operator’s actions, and technical condition of the machine. The ability of the operator has proven to be a significant factor when considering productivity or fuel efficiency. If the machine is in good technical condition with controller parameters tuned properly, the only way to increase performance, that is, produ...

In recent years, measuring and analyzing productivity changes is the main focus of variousresearches who study performance of organizations. All through widespread application ofMalmquist Productivity Index, different types of data should be considered thoroughly,otherwise any defective study of the related data and deciding factors may yield poor results.Practical Malmquist Productivity Index ...

Communication issues are extensively considered a topic of high interest for improving the efficacy of the therapeutic act. This article aimed to overview several issues of therapeutic communication relevant for improving quality of care. A number of 15 bibliographic resources on these topics published in peer-reviewed journals between 1975 and 2010, and indexed in PubMed, ProQuest and EBSCO da...

agricultural extension is a client-oriented service the effectiveness and efficiency of which depends on the clientele’s satisfaction. extension agents’ performance is one of the indices of extension services' performance. extension agents’ performance has been assessed in different such ways as: study of their supervisors’ view points, study of agents’ themselves reports and as well study...