purpose: customer satisfaction in modern organizations requires employees' job satisfaction that can be led to performance improvement in the organization. in this regard, self-leadership and strengthening of it among the employees and managers can facilitate this subject. the purpose of this paper is to study the relation between self-leadership with job satisfaction and performance impro...

background: business process management systems (bpm) can automate all processes in an organization. these systems provide the possibility of identifying, modeling, deploying, implementing, function managing, integrating with other information systems, monitoring and improving an organization's business processes in a standard form. as far as the authors know, no related research has been ...

establishment of hospital accreditation programs is increasingly growing across numerous developing nations. such initiatives aim to improve quality of care. however, such establishments, mainly incentivized by successful and famous accreditation plans in developed countries, usually suffer from lack of necessary arrangements which, in turn, result in undesired consequences. indeed, the first p...

recently, the world health organization has made the need for countries to improve the school context and enhance the health of students at the school in terms of quality of life. this study aimed to determine the relation between improvement, adventure, social solidarity and opportunity with perceived stress among students. during the correlational qualitative research, among the population of...

Point-of-care testing (POCT) is growing in popularity, and with this growth comes an increased chance of errors. Risk management is a way to reduce errors. Originally developed for the manufacturing industry, risk management principles have application for improving the quality of test results in the clinical laboratory. The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI), EP23-A Laboratory ...

Objective: The purpose of the descriptive study was to identify the students’ perceptions regarding the benefits (extent and nature) they gained by participating in a 4-hour pre-clinical experience in their nurse anesthesia program. The program initiated a modification to the existing curriculum. Based on the modification, faculty queried the students to determine if the experience supported th...

This article offers information on the present status of goat populations and their productivity. The overview discusses number of goats in different parts of the world as well as the top countries having goats. The article also reviews the status of goat milk and meat production over the globe. In addition, breeding objectives and genetic improvement programs for milk and meat are discussed gi...

Food legumes are considered as the major source of dietary proteins among the plant species. Protein and amino acid contents were evaluated in a wide sample of both wild and cultivated genotypes of Phaseolus species, with a view to investigate possibilities of genetic improvement in seed nutritional quality. Results indicate a variation in relation with taxa, biological status within species (s...

Palliser, Pierre Beukes, and Chris Folkers) is acknowledged and appreciated as some results were derived from their Whole-farm Model which has been under development for several years. Comments and feedback were generously contributed ABSTRACT The wide use of artificial insemination by dairy farmers has facilitated the development of a multi-billion dollar international market in animal genetic...

OBJECTIVES Self-monitoring blood uric acid device is an important tool for patients to efficiently monitor their blood uric acid concentrations. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the accuracy of EasyTouch uric acid monitoring system. DESIGN AND METHODS Capillary blood uric acid concentrations measured using EasyTouch and the reference values obtained from COBAS MIRA were perf...