This study explores the human resource management preferences of Chinese employees, based on a sample of 2852 questionnaires from organizations in China. The research findings show a strong ‘group orientation’ and a great emphasis on ‘soft factors’ such as seniority, loyalty and connections in many HRM areas. It is argued that certain areas of Chinese HRM are converging to the western model, bu...

Human resource management and total quality management having been identified as “new” approaches have attracted a great deal of practitioners’ interest. Environmental pressures to change, for example, turbulent market conditions and heightened competition, have left organizations little choice to introduce novel approaches in human resource management (HRM) and total quality management (TQM) i...

The paper aims to investigate influence of some important aspects of multinationals (MNCs), i.e., corporate strategies, structures and international policy orientations on subsidiaries HRM practices, specifically on recruitment and selection practices. Four European multinational subsidiaries operating in Bangladesh were selected for the study. In-depth case studies on those MNCs revealed that ...

objectives: myelodysplastic syndromes (mdss) include a diverse group of clonal bone marrow disorders characterized by ineffective hematopoiesis and pancytopenia. it was found that down regulation of apaf1 , a putative tumor suppressor gene, leads to resistance to chemotherapy and disease development in some cancers. in this study, we investigated the relation of apaf1 methylation status with it...

Human Resources Management (HRM) is the strategic management of the employees, who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of the strategic goals of an organization. Most HRM tasks are based on acquiring the right information and reasoning about skills and competencies of individuals. In this paper we present a formal ontology for competency management and consider three rea...

Objective To compare swallowing function between healthy subjects and patients with pharyngeal dysphagia using high resolution manometry (HRM) and to evaluate the usefulness of HRM for detecting pharyngeal dysphagia. Methods Seventy-five patients with dysphagia and 28 healthy subjects were included in this study. Diagnosis of dysphagia was confirmed by a videofluoroscopy. HRM was performed to...

High-resolution melt analysis (HRMA) is a cheap and reliable post-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) cancer mutation screening technique, which is fast gaining clinical relevance. The HRMA capabilities of the LightScanner (Idaho Technology) have been severally studied. However, the ABI 7500 HRM has not been tested against the purpose-built HRM instrument such as the LightScanner. DNA from formalin...

Senna alexandrina (Fabaceae) is a globally recognized medicinal plant for its laxative properties as well as the only source of sennosides, and is highly exported bulk herb from India. Its major procurement is exclusively from limited cultivation, which leads to risks of deliberate or unintended adulteration. The market raw materials are in powdered or finished product form, which lead to diffi...

OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to identify HBB gene mutation. DESIGN AND METHODS Herein we evaluated high-resolution melting analysis in the identification of HBB mutations. RESULTS We have successfully established a diagnostic strategy for identifying HBB gene mutations including c.-78A>G, c.-79A>G, c.2T>G, c.79_80insT, c.84_85insC, c.123_124insT, c.125_128delTCTT, c.130 G>T, c.170G>A...