Problem: Hematocrit effect, the influence of non-optimal hematocrit on the accuracy of glucose analyzers, poses a patient safety risk when tight glucose control is desired. The combination of tight glucose management and restrictive blood transfusion policies has brought about a situation not anticipated when the widespread use of point-of-care glucose testing became the standard of care. Utili...

With most organizations spending at least one third of their income on purchasing goods and services, procurement holds significant, but often overlooked, business value. Purchasing processes are frequently very inefficient with communication primarily occurring on paper and workflow routines being complex, timeconsuming, and expensive. Additionally, companies only rarely fully leverage their b...

India has traditionally attached great importance to its relations with Central Asia. But, unfortunately, the relationship faces several constraints including the lack of direct access to Central Asia; the unstable situation in Afghanistan and a problematic IndiaPakistan relation. India and Central Asia: Need for a Pro-active Approach Arvind Gupta Dr Arvind Gupta is Director General at the Inst...

This paper studies the notion of similarity with reference to situations of situation theory. While the commonsense notion of two situations resembling each other appears to be valuable in our daily life, we show that it is problematic for the same reasons researchers have been pointing out in psychological and philosophical literature. That human beings can u e the notion naturally (without mu...

Clustering methods are commonly applied to time series, either as a preprocessing stage for other methods or in their own right. In this paper it is explained why time series clustering may sometimes be considered as meaningless. This problematic situation is illustrated for various raw time series. The unfolding preprocessing methodology is then introduced. The usefulness of unfolding preproce...

Guided by a “logic of the situation” approach our research investigated problematic situation in community to identify and critically reflect on how consumer marketplaces self-sufficiency meet consumption needs. In doing so, we situational understanding allowed researchers form more complete view needs were met through enabler-led marketplaces, community-led self-sufficiency. We also re-concept...

objective: the most commonly used instrument for the research and treatment of excessive internet use is young’s internet addiction test (iat). while the iat has been translated to several languages (including persian) and has demonstrated good psychometric properties across several independent studies, there is still a room for alternative assessment instruments. this study reports a validatio...

To the extent that a society is to work, there exist a need for a cooperative process, including Weber’s and Merton’s note of common means and goals. But at the same time, there exist no societal process without involving conflict; (conflict in a dynamic and dialectical sense.) Dealing with this problematic situation the emergence of “division of labor”, as a compulsive social differentiation, ...

In some situations in which undesirable collective effects occur, it is very hard, if not impossible, to hold any individual reasonably responsible. Such a situation may be referred to as the problem of many hands. In this paper we investigate how the problem of many hands can best be understood and why, and when, it exactly constitutes a problem. After analyzing climate change as an example, w...