I examined samples from a number of companys’ user publications using several automated reading measures and a graphics/text ratio. The goal was to answer two questions: Were there reliable differences in writing style among the competitors? If so, were these differences related to their rank position in published surveys of user satisfaction with documentation? Of the measures included in the ...

A companys ability to flexibly adapt to changing business requirements is one key factor to remain competitive. The required flexibility in people driven processes is usually achieved through ad-hoc workflows which are naturally highly unstructured. Effective guidance in ad-hoc workflows therefore requires a simultaneous consideration of multiple goals: support of individual work habits, classi...

background: metabolic syndrome (metsyn) is closely associated with cardiovascular disease (cvd) particularly in stressful jobs such as firefighting. as studies assessing prevalence of metsyn among firefighters are rare, this study was aimed to assess prevalence of metsyn, insulin resistance and lp(a) level among firefighters in tabriz city. methods: 76 firefighters and 73 official staffs in tab...

conclusions according to the findings of the current study, dino is an appropriate tool to assess msds risk due to patient handling in the nursing personnel. this method can be used in the evaluation of patient transfer educational programs and also to identify and assess an unsafe work technique used by the nurses. results the prevalence of msds was 87.6% in a 12-month period. the average resu...

background: today the justice is the most important concepts affects on organization survival, since understanding and recognizing of organizational justice is a necessity in social cooperation. the current study conducted with the aim of examining the association between emotional intelligence in isfahan university of medical science staffs with organizational justice methods: this study is a ...

Background: In-service education is one of the best and major methods to provide, train and improve the performance of the staffs. This study aims to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the virtual trainings from the staffs' perspective of Mashhad University of medical sciences. Methods: this is a cross-sectional study conducted among staffs from different parts of the therapy department ...

A system for selecting sentences from an imaged document for presentation as part of a document summary is presented. The extracts are identified without the use of optical character recognition. The sentences are selected based on a set of discrete features characterizing the words within a sentence and the location of the sentence within the imaged document. Each sentence is scored based on t...

Learning objects are under discussion in the context of electronic and in particular Web-based learning. Intuitively, they represent reusable units of learning content that can be consumed or studied within a single learning session, and that can be sequenced into larger units such as classes and courses if necessary or desired. To achieve these goals, making learning objects amenable to the te...

Structure and evolutionary history of a large family of NLR 1 proteins in the zebrafish 2 3 4 Kerstin Howe, Philipp H. Schiffer, Julia Zielinski, Thomas Wiehe, Gavin K. Laird, 5 John C. Marioni, Onuralp Soylemez, Fyodor Kondrashov, Maria Leptin 6 7 1 Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom 8 2 Institut für Genetik, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Deutschland 9 3 The European Molec...

K.J. Tielrooij, L. Orona, ∗ A. Ferrier, 4, ∗ M. Badioli, ∗ G. Navickaite, S. Coop, S. Nanot, B. Kalinic, T. Cesca, L. Gaudreau, Q. Ma, A. Centeno, A. Pesquera, A. Zurutuza, H. de Riedmatten, 7 P. Goldner, F.J. Garćıa de Abajo, 7 P. Jarillo-Herrero, and F.H.L. Koppens † ICFO Institut de Ciéncies Fotóniques, Mediterranean Technology Park, Castelldefels (Barcelona) 08860, Spain Department of Physi...