This paper explores the impact of Thai culture on managing the decision making process in requirements engineering and contribution a better understand of its influence on the management of requirements engineering process. The paper illustrates the interaction of technology and culture and shows that rather than technology changing culture, culture can change the way technology is used. Thai c...

OBJECTIVE To identify plasma markers predictive of therapeutic response in patients with multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). METHODS Fifty HIV-negative patients with active pulmonary MDR-TB were analysed for six soluble analytes in plasma at the time of initiating treatment (baseline) and over six months thereafter. Patients were identified as sputum culture positive or negative at bas...

Knowledge Management (KM) is a key strategy which many organizations have been leveraging upon because of its potential in achieving competitive advantage. However, factors such as the national culture can impact the efficacy of this strategy. Hence, the aim of this paper is to provide insight into how Nigerian culture influences organizational culture, which in turn influences KM practices in ...

Programmes to modify the safety culture have led to lasting improvements in patient safety and quality of care in high-income settings around the world, although their use in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) has been limited. This analysis explores (1) how to measure the safety culture using a health culture survey in an LMIC and (2) how to use survey data to develop targeted safe...

The article investigates the solidarity between minority groups as a catalyst of literary capital. Tomer Gardi's novel Broken German (2016) was viewed enthusiastically by critics bold political statement, since it entertains that immigrants may hold an affinity towards each other based on their exclusion from culture. However, also alerts us to hierarchical consideration in Germany, complicatin...

CARNIVAL VS. LENT: THE CARNIVALIZATION OF FAMILY IMAGE IN GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ’S DEATH AND FUNERAL MAMMA GRANDE ONE HUNDRED YEARS SOLITUDE This article presents a socio-critical analysis of the family image in two works by Gabriel García Márquez: short story Death and Funeral Mamma Grande novel One Hundred Years Solitude. In literary cosmos Macondo, social microstructure that is at center aro...

Introduction: Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has been reported as epidemic in December 2019 Wuhan, Hubei Province, People Republic of China. Hospitalized COVID-19 patients, especially with worse clinical appearance and on ventilator, need thorough diagnostic tests patients tend to mimic bacterial infections. Positive blood culture is more likely be contaminants hospital associated infectio...

The automotive industry in Japan is known for its competitiveness and demanding work environment, which can potentially impact employee engagement organizational culture. Organizational culture refers to the shared values, beliefs, behaviors that mould overall working environment atmosphere within a company. It plays an important role engagement, extent workers are emotionally committed their w...