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Employee Motivation: “Just Ask Your Employees”

Employee motivation is an intricate and sophisticated subject; however, contemporary managers must face and deal with this topic to obtain organizational success. To enhance understanding of employee motivation, mangers must recognize the imperativeness of employee motivation, its concepts, and differences in individual needs. Subsequently, managers need to be aware of a variety of employee mot...

Ask Your Doctor About MegaNatural®-BP

GSEs (grape seed extracts) which contain polyphenolic compounds cause an endotheliumdependent relaxation of blood vessels. The aim of the present study was to examine the mechanisms involved in this response. A well-characterized GSE was applied to rabbit aortic rings suspended in organ baths containing Krebs–Henseleit buffer maintained at 37 ◦C. In aortic rings pre-contacted with noradrenaline...

Get Your Jokes Right: Ask the Crowd

Jokes classification is an intrinsically subjective and complex task, mainly due to the difficulties related to cope with contextual constraints on classifying each joke. Nowadays people have less time to devote to search and enjoy humour and, as a consequence, people are usually interested on having a set of interesting filtered jokes that could be worth reading, that is with a high probabilit...

Ask Not What Your Text Can do For You. Ask What You Can do For Your Text (a Dictionary’s perspective)

Ask not what your REB can do for you; ask what you can do for your REB.

Research ethics boards (REBs) are perhaps the most unloved component of the research endeavour. In this issue of Canadian Family Physician, Kotecha and colleagues (page 1165)1 join a chorus of voices decrying current governance of research by institutional REBs. In their article they describe the experiences of the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network in securing ethics approval....