In healthcare there is a long held wisdom that 'champions' are a key aspect of organizational change. Drawing on organizational management theory, we examine the role of champions in three health and social care organizations in England as they attempt to move services to a remote model of delivery, 'telecare'. The delivery of remote care is a significant policy in the U.K. and elsewhere, but i...

Attracting the right talent and retaining them becomes a critical aspect for business success. In competitive labour markets, the challenge for service-based organizations is to differentiate themselves in order to successfully attract and retain talented staff. The main objective of this paper is to study the influence of employer image towards employees in IT industry. The primary data collec...

oak trees cover a wide range of forests in iran and most of them are located in kohgiloye and boyer-ahmad province (k.b). the high tannin is one of the anti-nutritional characteristics of acorn for domestic animal. wide range of gut microorganisms could tolerate tannin and reduce it by producing tannase enzyme. this study was carried out to isolate and identify the tannin resistance bacteria (t...

1. Session Background and Motivation Today's biology and biomedical research is increasing inundated with data, based in part on improved instrumentation and techniques that automate the data capture and storage. Genomics and proteomics efforts are producing data at an increasing rate, the data are more of a descriptive nature and do not provide information on functional and structural integrat...