nowadays with high competition in area of business, companies have to use different strategies in order to face and control this competition. without doubt not only use of these strategies influences on packaging but also this issue affect on companies’ performance. hence, aim of this research is to study differentiation strategy of porter as a competitive strategy on organizational performance...

Introduction: The aim of study was to explain studentschr('39') hope based on coping styles and meaning of life. The research method was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population of the study included all undergraduate students of  Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) who were studying in the academic year 2009-2010. To determine the sample size, similar research studies ...

Purpose To explore the involvement of middle management in forming strategies to manage variable acute patient flows at a hospital. Design/methodology/approach Empirical evidence from a university hospital was gathered via interviews, internal documents, observation and participation in meetings. The role of middle management in the development of strategies was analyzed using literature on mid...

BACKGROUND The 22q11.2 deletion syndrome is the most frequent human microdeletion syndrome. The phenotype is highly variable, being characterized by conotruncal heart defect, facial dysmorphisms, velopharyngeal insufficiency, learning difficulties and mental retardation. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the frequency of deletion 22q11.2 in a Brazilian sample of individ...

One of the major goals of the Sustainable Agriculture Farming initiatives at UC Davis is to provide information about the feasibility of adopting conservation tillage and cover cropping at the farm level. The project includes two tillage schemes: standard tillage (ST) and conservation tillage (CT), and three farming methods: conventional, organic, and winter legume cover crop. All three product...

Global biodiversity continues along a trajectory of decline despite enormous conservation efforts (Rands et al., 2010). This is also true in China, one of the most biodiversity-rich countries in the world (Liu and Raven, 2010; Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, 2010a). To fundamentally change this trajectory, it is essential to understand complex interactions among various forces af...