Political content management: new linguistic units and social practices

Management practices and the quality of care in cardiac units.

IMPORTANCE To improve the quality of health care, many researchers have suggested that health care institutions adopt management approaches that have been successful in the manufacturing and technology sectors. However, relatively little information exists about how these practices are disseminated in hospitals and whether they are associated with better performance. OBJECTIVES To describe th...

Syllables as Linguistic Units?

While there continues to be a debate in linguistics and speech processing as to the nature of an atomic unit, in computational approaches the atomic unit is universally taken to be the orthographic, space-demarcated “word”. We argue that for many richly inflected languages such as Indo-European languages, syllablebased approaches together with semantic grounding may provide certain advantages. ...

Social Thresholds and their Translation into Social-ecological Management Practices

The objective of this paper is to provide a preliminary discussion of how to improve our conceptualization of social thresholds using (1) a more sociological analysis of social resilience, and (2) results from research carried out in collaboration with the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations of the Yukon Territory, Canada. Our sociological analysis of the concept of resilience begins with a re...

Integrating Political and Social Issues in Operations and Supply Management

Political Development in Social Sciences Textbooks: Content Analysis of the High School Texts 

Political Development in Social Sciences Textbooks: Content Analysis of the High School Texts M. Abtahi, Ph.D.* G.R. Mohammadimehr**   Political development, as an educational objective, could be achieved if certain concepts and values are dealt with in the textbooks. Chief among such concepts and values are rationality, scientific tendencies, law abiding, group work, consultation, ...