AIM This paper is a report of a study on how nurses inform their decision-making in the workplace. BACKGROUND Despite the growing availability of research evidence, nurses have been slow to adopt it into their daily decision-making. METHOD The study was undertaken in Ireland between 2006 and 2007 using a sequential mixed methods approach. In phase 1, the views of a quota sample of 29 nurses...

noise is one of the most common workplace hazardous agents that can cause permanent hearing damage. workers in many industries are usually exposed to noise levels with high risks of hearing loss. accordingly this research aims to study the noise exposure and haring status of registered locksmiths who are exposed to harmful effects caused by several factors, such as key making machines loud nois...

This paper analyses the decision making process for senior management in public hospitals that are a part of the National Health Service in Brazil (hereafter SUS) in relation to projects aimed at changing clinical management. The methodological design of this study is qualitative in nature taking a hermeneutics-dialectics perspective in terms of results. Hospital directors noted that clinical m...

wheat flour is a commodity with a high risk of aflatoxins (afs) contamination. during the bread making there are many processes that can affect the afs stability. the effect of bread making process using different yeast types on afs levels was investigated. for this purpose, standards of afs including b and gwere added to flour and then bread loaves were prepared. three types of commercially av...

Shared decision making is a process that has empowered specialty nurses at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, to solve a practice concern. Staff nurses recognized a lack of concise, collated information available that described what nurses need to know when caring for patients receiving chemotherapy. Many aspects of the administration process were knowledge and experience based and not easily re...

lawgiver, for the purpose of penal supporting of national historical-cultural monuments, ratified repeated article 566 of islamic penal code in 1388; which demonstrates three actions of “making fake cases”, “introducing, carrying or storing” and “buying of historical-cultural monuments” as crimes. this criminalizing was necessary and advantageous, but the procedure of criminalizing has some wea...

The weighted geometric mean method (WGMM) is the most common group preference aggregation method in the Analytic Hierarchy Process. This paper reports on research concerning the consistency of WGMM and proves that the weighted geometric mean complex judgement matrix (WGMCJM) is of acceptable consistency. In Saaty's (T.L. Saaty, The Analytic Hierarchy Process, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1980) opinio...

The supplier selection process attracted a lot of attention in the business management literature. This process takes into consideration several quantitative and qualitative variables and is usually modeled as a multi-attribute decision making (MADM) problem. A recognized shortcoming in the literature of classical MADM methods is that they don’t permit the identification of interdependencies am...

Evidence from the early and late industrializes shows that technology, as the commercial application of scientific knowledge, has been a major driver of industrial and economic development. International technology transfer is now being recognized as having played an important role in the development of the most successful late industrializes of the second half of the 20th Century. Our society ...

In a previous paper ~ it was shown that the single cycle symmetrical form of the autocatalytic law could not by itself be made to represent the changes of weight during the entire course of starvation in pigeons suffering from partial inanition. By the addition of two autocatalytic curves, however, a procedure which recognized the cyclical nature of the process, it was found that very good agre...