Nursing Leadership from Bedside to Boardroom: Opinion Leaders’ Perceptions Khoury, Blizzard, Moore, Hassmiller Quantitative/ Qualitative Journal of nursing administration The study found that people in general find nurses to be trustoworthy, especially when it comes to health care issues and also showed that people were aware of nurses' lack of presence on boards and decreased influence in exec...

This paper presents an overview on the advantages an integrated symbolic connectionist approach can ooer for robot programming and control. It describes the functional dependency of symbolic and con-nectionist modules being parts of an hierarchical robot control system as well as their descriptive and methodological integration. Moreover, it is shown how both symbolic and connectionist learning...

In this paper we develop and test the hypothesis that institutional funding arrangments affect the extent to which public agencies are influenced by special interests. We test this hypothesis using data on state medical boards. In 1989, medical boards in twenty-one states received budget appropriations from their legislatures. The remaining boards operated independent of legislative control, fi...

Corporate governance and the role of boards is a topic hotly debated in boardrooms, associations and media across the industrialized world. However intense, discussions are largely national phenomena due to the widespread belief that boards cannot be compared on an international plane. The authors argue the contrary: that there is a great deal to be learned from such comparisons because boards ...

The principal reform accomplished by Part XX.1 was the creation of a system of forensic Review Boards in each province. The Boards assumed the role previously played by provincial Cabinets in determining the custodial status of forensic patients. Part XX.1 established the Review Boards as quasi-judicial tribunals which would afford all parties, including the accused, a full panoply of procedura...

The calculation of local texture characteristics of wood boards is considered. An automated process which chooses the boards making up a wood panel based on criteria of aesthetic compatability of texture between the boards needs to have access to this information. Algorithms producing reduced-size summary images of wood boards describing the distribution of the vein orientation and inter-vein s...

recovery of gold and other valuable metals from electronic scrap involves a complex metallurgical flow sheet and requires state-of-the-art recovery technologies that are available in large-scale, integrated smelter and refinery operations. at the end of their use, electronic and other electrical product scrap offer an important recycling potential for the secondary supply of gold and silver int...

The game of Domineering is a combinatorial game that has been solved for several boards, including the standard 8 × 8 board. We create new partizan – and some impartial – combinatorial games by using trominos instead of and along with dominoes. We analyze these Tromping games for some small boards providing a dictionary of values. Further, we prove properties that permit expressing some connect...

Internet stock message boards provide individual investors with a new information medium that could have several effects on stock activity. Message boards may provide investors with a new information source on small cap stocks. Message boards may affect the trading and volatility of certain stocks by influencing investors. The impact of message board information may vary according to characteri...

The paper provides mathematical modelling for prefabricated timber-framed walls composed of a timber frame and two different types of sheathing boards. Since by wood-based boards (WBB) the tensile strength is similar to the compressive one, there are practically no cracks appearing in the boards. On the other hand, in case of fibre-plaster sheathing boards (FPB) the tensile strength is approxim...