BACKGROUND A number of program-level and counselor-level factors are known to impact the adoption of treatment innovations. While program leadership is considered a primary factor, the importance of leadership among clinical staff to innovation transfer is less known. Objectives included explore (1) the influence of two leadership roles, program director and individual counselor, on recent trai...

PURPOSE To identify the personal strengths of Canadian physical therapists who hold leadership positions and compare them with the strengths of Canadian physical therapists who do not occupy positions of leadership. METHODS A quantitative, cross-sectional online survey was distributed to registered Canadian physical therapists. We used the Clifton StrengthsFinder to evaluate 34 characteristic...

The paper sets out with considering increased decision interdependencies in the Transnational Organization due to autonomous IT deployment in national subsidiaries. It proceeds by proposing Multifactor Productivity as a controlling instrument for managing the increased level of decision interdependence in the area of IT deployment. It is demonstrated how Multifactor Productivity supports the tw...

The multifactor version of copula models has the ability to generate complex correlation structure among defaults that is useful in fitting the base correlation skew. However, multifactor models have often been dismissed for their intractability. Even the semianalytical approach using Laplace transforms is computationally challenging, because although the model is tractable upon conditioning on...

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Multilinear Principal Component Analysis (MPCA) are leading subspace methods for achieving dimension reduction based on supervised learning. Both LDA and MPCA use class labels of data samples to calculate subspaces onto which these samples are projected. Furthermore, both methods have been successfully applied to face recognition. Although LDA and MPCA sha...

In this paper we propose a multifactor hybrid fusion approach for enhancing security in audio-visual speaker verification. Speaker verification experiments conducted on two audiovisual databases, VidTIMIT and UCBN, show that multifactor hybrid fusion involve a combination feature-level fusion of lip-voice features and face-lip-voice features at score-level is indeed a powerful technique for spe...

In their valuable discussion of whistleblowing in healthcare organisations, Mannion and Davies highlight the importance of organisational culture in influencing whether people raise concerns, and whether these concerns are listened to and acted upon. The role of leadership in shaping organisational culture is well-established and in this commentary, we will examine the influence of leaders in c...

INTRODUCTION Burnout is usually defined as a state of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion that results from long-term involvement in work situations that are emotionally demanding. A great deal of researches has been devoted to the understanding of factors contributing to burnout and the negative effects that burnout has in the cost and the quality of the provided healthcare. DISCUSSION...